There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
The American public does not know poets exist.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.