Andrey's questions about poems (split from the intro thread)

[AndreyGaganov]

I've only read whatever poetry they dished out in high school so classes.... At college it was all novels... So... I don't think you have to read a lot of poems to be able to critique a few.  Poetry is personal and once you get passed the generic "this is cliche" and the "you spelt cheese wrong" critique, what the reader offers to the author is how the poem hit them. Or missed. It's a feeling, not a fact.

So, I do have to approach a poem like it's a song. It's a take-it-or-leave-it relationship. Right?