A Brief History of Modern Poetry Trends #poetry #communism

Why doesn't the average person care about poetry? How did it come to be that most poetry today is so different than the type of verse that was written in the past? The answer to these questions lies in intellectual trends that began in the nineteenth century, resulting in sweeping cultural changes in the twentieth that we are still feeling today. Classical poetry offers an alternative to this pessimism and malaise. #marxism #darwinism #longfellow #whitman