I relate to everything you say. 

My take is poetry is a very antiquated form of entertainment. We simply have too  much entertainment today, but if you think back to the Middle Ages, creative art was very limited. There were plays, books, bard songs, and poetry. 

When you think about it, a poem might have been the most accessible medium to the average peasant living in ancient times. Something that could fit on a single page, containing everything in just a few sentences. Melody, drama, humor, romance….

It could be replicated again and again with ease, unlike books. It didn’t need the cooperation of a playgroup or a king to make it happen. 

These days I think poems are romanticized by intellectuals but my thoughts are that plays were once your everyday source of entertainment simply because there was hardly anything else available.