A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.