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

[AndreyGaganov]

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

says who? who queefed and made you chief decider.

No need to get caustic. What I'm saying is that we know everything we need to know about cheese, and we are capable of enjoying it. To this day there are still people who don't know how to go about poetry. There's a difference, isn't there? Can you still lump them together? 

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.

1) Yes, but the reaction I expect from eating cheese is a positive one. Who doesn't like eating? 
2) How does punctuation satisfy you in the mind? 

How can you experience poetry in any style?

I don't know what you mean by experience.... 

"Deriving pleasure" is what I meant. 

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.

The only way this can make sense to me is if I compare feeling the tone of a poem to drinking Steel Reserve. I won't like the taste of the hops and barley until I drink Steel Reserve for a long enough period of time and get used to the taste. So, by that logic, I have to read enough poetry to at least  get used to the metaphor-filled build of any poem.