Interesting thoughts, but I think you can make the case that language in America is a lot MORE musical--the influence of Hamilton and hip-hop generally has increased our awareness of meter and rhyme. See Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem.https://twitter.com/NateMeyvis/status/1363936698565017601 …
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According to this essay (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n12/ben-lerner/diary …, backed up here, https://lithub.com/read-every-presidential-inauguration-poem-ever-performed-there-are-fewer-than-you-think/ …) only JFK, Clinton, Obama, Biden had inaugural poems.
How easy it is to be wrong about basic, easily checked facts, and not think to check them! I really appreciate it.
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I've never been a big poetry guy, but I was very surprised to discover that I quite like Victorian narrative poems - goblin market, accident mariner. Totally not the genre/era I would have expected.
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Funny how that works... thanks for reminding me about Rossetti.
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