William Butler Yeats has his eyes on stalks. T.S. Eliot is almost all head. Elizabeth Bishop has a thin tail she can twist around seaweed. Apollinaire is flat and has both his eyes on the same side of his head. Ezra Pound is long and rather like a snake.
Poets are among nature's most accomplished seduction artists.
They have been writing greeting card verse for hundreds of years. People used to call any animal that writes poetry a poet. The poetaster is not a true poet. The poetess and poet laureate are not true poets either. None of these animals has a backbone.