What the importance of knowing the difference between the speaker and the writer in a poem?

Answer 1

Here's an example:
http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/909/

This poem has two speakers, neither of which is the poet.

Here's another:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm#5
In this one, it's hard to tell if the poet is also the speaker.

Here's another:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm#15
What do you think?

Answer 2

There is really no importance. But, the difference is that the poet is the person who writes the poem, and the speaker is the person who tells the story.

Answer 3

The speaker is the narrator or character of the poem. The poet is the writer or creator of the poem

Answer 4

The person who writes the poem is the poet. The person telling the story (kind of like a character or narrator)is the speaker

Answer 5

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