I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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 don't think culture is something you can describe.
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.