notes-history-poetry

Reading history, you get the idea that poetry used to be a lot more popular than it is today. Why?

http://sidekickbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-is-poetry-not-popular.html and https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130714194554AAikeUK have a theory that rings true; the popular function that poetry used to serve is now served by song lyrics. In addition, now we even have rap songs. In some sense these are the true 'poetry' of today. Also, now we have tweets.