Poetry as an Art Form Works the Same Way

You can't really be the wrong kind of poetry reader. What you can be is either delighted and surprised by finding the poem that's wright for you, or frustrated by finding the wrong one. We come to poetry as a set of techniques for making lots of different kinds of verbal objects that do lots of different things. You can look for as many things in poems as you can look for from life. But it turned out, when i made a giant imaginary stack of the poems i liked and asked, why do i like these? And then I realized there were six things: feelings, character, technique, difficulty, wisdom and com. These can overlap.