What is the last time a poem entered the public consciousness?

maybe one from flanders fields

i think poetry is dying because it isn’t as stimulating or interesting as music. I personally hate poetry, every time I hear a poem read out loud I think “why can’t this just be sung?”

That does appear to be the case in English. As a native speaker, my knowledge in English poetry is absolutely horrible because it was never properly taught in school and I never had to use them irl.

On the other hand, I speak Mandarin natively as well, and while I did not receive formal education in Chinese, I do know a fair bit of Chinese poetry.

chat should I bring back the JetPunk Poem Promenade

shell silverstein or whatever his name was

or maybe doctor seuss?

why poetry when can song?

This is a harder question than I would've thought. Maybe Sylvia Plath's Daddy?

Maybe like the Outsiders or something

I recognize absolutely nothing in this thread...

Every day for me, on the back of my cab on the truck I drive, I have two lines from a short poem by Robert Frost...

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING

The two lines are...

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep

I've very recently started to get into poetry. I think ultimately the difference between good songwriting and poetry is essentially nonexistent. Something like this or this evokes the same amount of feeling, has the same emotional depth, as just about any of the classic poems. Just a continuation of the medium in a slightly altered form.

From English ones - Amanda Gorman’s inauguration speech of Biden.

From non-English ones: In Azerbaijani, poetry is strongly linked to music so there's always new stuff coming out.