Our culture is devolving. Two centuries ago, poetry was a vibrant, popular art form. Today, nobody reads poetry, because nobody has the mental capacity to comprehend its subtleties. How many today could understand Emily Dickenson, or Robert Browning, or John Keats, or John Donne? Nobody listens to classical music today, or goes to the opera, or the ballet. We've descended to the cultural level of the peasantry of the 19th century. Soon it will become impossible for prose writers to express themselves clearly and elegantly, because readers will no longer be able to handle complex sentence structure or a large vocabulary. We're almost there already.