Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is you need to talk with children to teachers and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
We try we fail we posture we aspire we pontificate - and then we age shrink die and vanish.
Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.