All objects all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem with interrelated sections.
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their own hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler.