I do not really read poetry. Nothing against it, I just have never really 'gotten into' reading poetry. Most of the time I have to have an interpreter standing behind me reading the poem over my shoulder giving me insight to exactly what the author is trying to express in the poem at hand. It is a hard task to try and decipher what an author is trying to get across when reading a poem. I think it all goes back to being force fed literary works as an adolescent. If you are given so to speak "forced" readings then how is one to ever absorb the information yet alone enjoy it. Speaking for myself, I have not really ever just picked up a book and decided to read it just for the heck of it. I truly do wish that I did enjoy reading things but I do believe that it goes back to whether or not you want to do it. If one is not forced to do so then the reader will get more out of the poem. But on the other hand, if one is not subjected to such poems then they may have been robbed of the privilege to be able to experience a beautiful poem and the meaning and feeling behind that poem. So I guess the question at hand still remains, to "force feed" poems and other literary arts or not to "force feed" poems and other literary arts. I guess it depends on the angle of the one who is doing the forcing.
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