A Question about Poets and Poetry.

The difference between this scenario and poetry is that in poetry you can't stumble across a workshop full of all the necessary tools.  Each tool in a poet's toolkit is developed through experience.  By the time a well-equipped workshop appears, the poet has the skill to use the tools.  What it comes down to then is what the poet produces.  People have a wild array of ideas about what a birdhouse is supposed to look like.  Your "carpenter", of course, is an idiot.  But the poet in a similar position really doesn't exist.  The analogy is to the poet who thinks he/she has all the tools when in reality its all a charade - creativity in a sloppy fashion.  Sometimes those poets develop into the real deal though, if they realise that there's a lot of work to be done and are up to the challenge.