Let's talk about feelings

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The average semi professional poet today is better at his craft than Shakespeare, if only because he has access to everything that Shakespeare knew, and what came after. It is no different than the average elite runner being able to break the 4 minute mile today, or the average mathematician today being better at solving any problem than Carl Gauss.
Yet, a lot of modern poetry leaves very little impression on you. There is a sense of repetition, of derivation, a lack of having new things to say, and nearly all poetry in English is just first world problems packaged as ennui. Does anyone else feel this way?

Man, I come to this board to get away from Gauss, and you bring him here?

Poetry, or perhaps, poetry, is an Art, or maybe just an art, which makes it entirely useless, in my opinion. Modern poetry, that of the semi professionals, at least, doesn't come across as derivative to me, nor does it feel to be a repetition of prior poets. Occasionally, some poems even feel like they are almost novel ideas, but I don't particularly read poetry because I'm looking for novel ideas about life, psyche, or romance. I leave novel ideas to the philosophers, which a poet can be from time to time, though philosophy is not his job.

We have this thing that people like to call the human experience, which refers to the common thoughts, experiences, and feelings of typically developed humans. When someone writes a poem, they will usually include elements of their individual experience and the human experience. Doing so allows the poem to be both personal and readable by the public. Without writing about the human experience, a poem will be completely foreign to almost all others who try to understand it.

I'm not sure I'm really explaining this the way I'd like to, so here's the short version: poetry isn't meant to be novel, that's what philosophy is for. Poetry is just an Art, and Art is just the blueprint of useless machine.