Why did poetry die? Because it migrated away from rhyming metrical poems that sound good (eg William Blake, Robert Frost) to basically abstract prose with carri

Why did poetry die? Because it migrated away from rhyming metrical poems that sound good (eg William Blake, Robert Frost) to basically abstract prose with carriage returns. However demand for the good stuff did not vanish, it’s now just satisfied by pop music, with the academic poets publishing in irrelevant chapbooks. Same exact thing happened with classical music. Stuff like Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Debussy, Tchaikovsky... the stuff sounds good. That might be obvious... but nowadays sounding good is extremely passé and if you write stuff that sounds good you will never get tenure as a composition professor. But people still want orchestral music that sounds good, so the people get what they want in film music like John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and Howard Shore.