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On Friday, June 3, 2022 at 11:54:38 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> The 1950s and 1960s had the Best poets, not to mention guys like Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg still very popular and well known to the general public.
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> Rod McKuen was a best selling poet in the 1960s.
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> To name a few.

So... you're saying that poetry had been more popular in the 50s and 60s, but it declined by the 1970s.

IOW: Poetry is *not* in decline.  Poetry declined 50 years ago, and has been on life support ever since.

We can therefore dismiss your original statement, "Poetry is in decline, anyone can see that," as false.

Poetry was a popular form of literature throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.  It's popularity declined at precisely the same time as the "modern" poets began to dominate the form (late 19th c.-early 20th c.).

Modern poetry, to all intents and purposes, killed poetry as a popular art form.