It is much easier to get older poetry, e.g. Kipling or Robert Service or even Shakespeare than it is to get modern poetry. Modern poetry eschews rhyme[0] for va

It is much easier to get older poetry, e.g. Kipling or Robert Service or even Shakespeare than it is to get modern poetry. Modern poetry eschews rhyme[0] for various reasons (some good, most bad in my opinion) and because it is less structured it is hard to know how it is supposed to be read unless you hear a recording of it. I think modern poetry, like many other forms of modern art is too clever for its own good and normal people can better appreciate works done in older styles. [0]: Obviously there are exceptions.