Chapter 5- Poetry

From the beginning of the chapter or should I write from the beginning of the title "Poetry" I was already thinking oh great I have to read a bunch of words that put together are called poems and when I read it aloud it sounds to me like Charlie Browns mom speaking "Mmwa Mmwa Mmwa". Talk about a mental block. Brings to mind all the stuff I was forced to memorise and not understand Why! Once I started reading the chapter I realized
my misconception of poetry. I guess I was taught in a teachers view who did not like or understand it either. I now know poetry is beautiful and can be presented in many forms.
How can a thirty something year old not have known this. It is very important how a teacher presents and approaches her students with different literature such as poetry. I am sad at how my experiences of my past have kept me from great work in poetry.