Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Poets"

A: So, I looked up this passage to try to get some context, and I'll try my best to paraphrase/explain each of the sentences, at least the way that I understand them. Anything in [brackets] is just me talking haha

Poets who write in the “wrong language” (even exceedingly populous languages like Chinese) must engage in the peculiar act of imagining a world poetry and placing themselves within it.
Poets who write in a language that isn't English [I think that's what it's talking about], even languages that a lot of people in the world speak, like Chinese, have to do this weird thing where they imagine a sort of "global" poetry, and try to find their place in it. [I think this is talking about globalization--we all have access to writing and art from different countries and cultures, so a poet has to think about the fact that their writing might be read by someone on the other side of the world, which might change the way they write.]

And, although it is supposedly free of all local history, this “world poetry” turns out, unsurprisingly, to be a version of Anglo-American modernism or French modernism, depending on which wave of colonial culture first washed over the intellectuals of the country in question.
Even though this "world poetry" is supposed to be a global thing that isn't dominated by any single culture or country, it's basically just Anglo-American modernism or French modernism. [so the "global" thing makes it seem like "oh, we're all people on Earth, we share the fact that we're human, we all love poetry no matter what language it's in, blah blah blah" but the art/culture that we now sort of share is mostly Western.] Whether it's English/American or French depends on which country colonized a place first and influenced the writers and scholars of that region [so say Vietnamese poets might be influenced by French modernism, because France colonized it first? I don't know if the influence part is true, but Vietnam was the first former French colony that came to mind haha]

This situation is the quintessence of cultural hegemony, when an essentially local tradition (Anglo-European) is widely taken for granted as universal.
This whole thing is the perfect example of cultural dominance - a local/small culture/tradition, like English/European, is what people think of as a worldwide thing.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you were looking for when you asked your question, but I hope it helps!

A: I think the main idea of the paragraph is about how anglo-european (western) cultures and traditions have been pushed on a lot of other countries, but this doesn't happen the other way around. One example of this is how a lot of British people and Americans will go to places like China/Korea/Japan and expect the locals to speak English to them.

Cultural hegemony is where one culture dominates and drowns out other cultures. So I think this paragraph is talking about how Western culture has dominated the mindset of non-Western poets, during periods of Colonialism.

I hope this helps a little! :)