Very interesting!
Poetry is treated badly by everyone because, very often, it reflects one's feelings.
I would say almost introspective, and that might make people afraid.
Very interesting poem (or passage about the "summer grass": it reminds me a lot of a famous poem by an Italian writer Ungaretti.
"Soldiers:
You stand like
of autumn
on the trees
the leaves."
To many people it might not mean anything, but in reality being a soldier is like being the leaves of autumn: at any moment you could fall...
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Yeah, I'd say that's a fair guess. Feelings in general make us uncomfortable. Hmm... come to think of that, as society moves more in the direction of being more accepting of feelings and the expression of them, I wonder if that will make poetry more popular. Time will tell, I suppose.
I hadn't heard that one before. I like that! Yes, quite similar in feeling to Bashō's poem.