Poetry presupposes that insight is important and I don't think this value has survived the internet. It's generational. Summing up something complex in a pithy statement cuts off discussion, and with it, the narcissistic supply that people call empathy these days.
Auden was a fey sentimentalist, and of poets whose work is relevant today, the other ones mentioned in the article (Larkin, Frost, and I'd add, Blake) should be the first stop.
I have little comprehension of what you've just said, but for any other philistines like me, who like their poetry like they like their coffee - regular, and in black and white - your first stop with Auden should be aboard this: https://youtu.be/zmciuKsBOi0
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Auden was a fey sentimentalist, and of poets whose work is relevant today, the other ones mentioned in the article (Larkin, Frost, and I'd add, Blake) should be the first stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q__Z185H8I&t=2s
> You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart.
Not that this sentiment is original with Auden.
The "basin" verse gave me chills the first time I heard/read it.