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My name is Ignazio Salvatore Basile and I'm from Sardinia. I'm a poet in search.
I think a poet is a man who needs to answer to some questions. He is a mediator between God and man (or between Nature and manhood, we can say after Wordsworth, and if we don't want to be involved with such an engaging matter as God).
I see the poet partly as a prophet and partly as a witness of his time. Of course a poet is a man like the others. As such he feels his own emotions and deals diary with love, pain, sorrow, joyfulness (only some days are for joy, unfortunately). But the poet is also an artist, which makes the difference. As any artist the poet utilises special tools to build up the handicrafts of his art. These tools, for the poet, are the form's devices, the meter, the rhyme, the rhythm and, of course, the words. The more he knows how to use these tools, the more the poet can hit answering in a fashioned form those funding questions which are essential part of the role he has to play in the society. It's worthless to add that the use of technical instruments is supposed to improve the result in terms of emotion and pleasure the reader expects to receive from poetry.
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