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.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.