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>Poetry only got good with modernism. Before that it’s too formal, like figurative painting. After modernism you can get into pure expression and language
You're going much too far in adoring Modernism. You go so far that you retard yourself. All of the great Modern artists and poets will testify that if you can't appreciate traditional art and poetry then you will never have any understanding of the Modern. It's really quite dimwitted to not understand the complex relationship between freedom and order involved in traditional art. Since, after all, Modernism is not just an explosion of freedom, but an approach to this divide simply from the other side. Modernism struggles to preserve an order in unbounded freedom, and traditional art strives to attain the greatest freedom and expression from within order, and perfection is attained when they meet each other equally. Modern art struggles from too much freedom just as traditional art struggled from too much order. Just read what Eliot and Pound actually had to say on this topic, I'm just repeating their own words.

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Poetry died with the modernists.