Let's talk about feelings

[busker]

On the basis of some of the responses - my reference to Shakespeare was illustrative of the point that the average semi-professional poet (by that I mean someone who publishes poetry in reputed journals, but does not make a living out of poetry) is very competent today, but very little of contemporary poetry is inspiring. All the inspirational bits seem to have gone out with the death of religious and spiritual poetry at the turn of the century.
Hopkins mentions the difference between inspired and Parnassian (competent but not inspired). I find a lot of contemporary poetry to be Parnassian. Everyone just sits around making "wow" observations, finding the perfect word for the perfect line, but ultimately drawing the most lifelike sketch of a duffel bag. At least, that's how I feel on reading it, and wanted to see if others felt the same way.