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Language Arts, HELP!!!

Answer 1

In a weird way, he will also be aware that the poet will be judged by the standards of the past. He will not be broken by this comparison, and won't be seen as better or worse than poets of the past. His poetry will be judged against poems of the past to see how both types of poetry stand up against one another. 

He should not try to copy the old style of poetry, because then his poems wouldn't be new, and they wouldn't be art. New poetry is not necessarily better, because it still needs to hold up to the standards of old, well-written poetry, but even if it is new and different, as long as it holds up to this quality, it can still fit in.

That being said, to a degree, new poetry often does try to fit the mold of some aspects of old poetry in order to fit in.