I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.