[Quiet Man Cometh]

It's possible that part of the reason poetry isn't as popular any more as it used to be is because music has become much more relevant to us than the lyrics of a poem. I would general still prefer to listen to someone sing acapella than recite a poem, but there is something about hearing a poem without furnishings like melody besides what the poet has created with the natural flow of words.

Poems can be read or heard. It's seems poetry's niche in soceity has been usurped between music and the novel. Even I have to admit that it's more satisfying to me to read a book over a poem, or collection of poems. Poetry rarely has the amount of open, bare substance that a novel can have. From this view I guess, poetry has been situation in a seat next to philosphy, as something academic to discuss over the occasional drinks rather than talk about as a daily thing like the a band's new song or a particular author's new book.