Lyric poetry

[bedeep]

I wonder if it has to do with the status of language in culture, in that (I speculate) at this time language is seen and expected to be rather highly utilitarian, and the worldview of language users is heavily weighted toward the rational and away from the mystical, romantic, or magical -- qualities that I suspect most people experienced more pervasively in earlier eras. And so a poem is expected to adhere to certain rationalist norms rather than to evoke the non-rational overtly.

I could be full of horseshit, too.