In platos republic translated by robin waterfield socrates

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In Plato's Republic translated by Robin Waterfield Socrates spends a lot of time on poetry and poets, who is he actually refering to? I feel like the "Poet" is a term used by Socrates that metaphorical/hypothetical for something, could you please elaborate?

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