I read that and rolled my eyes at its vapid logic. Even if it were true (and it's not) that modern life has "demystified and alienated us from the natural world", whatever that means, the idea that all poetry is rooted in connectedness to nature is certainly not an obvious proposition, but he presents it as an axiom that doesn't require proof or argument. To me it seems obviously incorrect.
In fact, our lost connection with the natural world is one of the subject matters of poetry. Wordsworth wrote "the world is too much with us" and "little we see in nature that is ours" 200 years ago, and we've still managed to have a bit of decent poetry written in the years since.
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