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

[QDeathstar]

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?

You can do whatever you like bro...

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You can't just lump flavors of cheese and styles of poetry together.

says who? who queefed and made you chief decider.

You can taste cheese, you can sense it with your taste buds.

You can hear poetry. assonance. consonance. alliteration. rythm. rhyme.
You can see poetry. The punctuation. The line breaks. The font. Line spacing.

How can you experience poetry in any style?

I don't know what you mean by experience.... If you can taste the flavor of cheese and you can feel the tone of a poem you've experienced both things to the same effect. I mean, unless you've vibrated away all feeling in a desperate attempt to reach climax with someone you passive-aggressively hate...