A Question about Poets and Poetry.

I for one would say that based on the most basic determination of a carpenter (one who works with wood), I'd have to say he's a carpenter. If he somehow had made a decent bird house, it would not change this basic description.

Likewise, someone like me, who never really bothers to study or "think" about what I'm writing, I'm still a writer. Just because I "stream" 5 poems a day does not make me any less of a writer than one who sweats over an haiku for a week.

The point is, is he a good? carpenter (poet)? Depends on your view really I guess. Is the intuitive, untrained person any less able to achieve something?

Mos.