Poetry

As an English Education major you would think I would be better at dissecting poetry than I really am. My only explanation for this is my lack of interest in it. I understand that I will come across in almost every class I take from now until I graduate which I have already accepted. Every poem I read I attempt to force myself into enjoying it but for some reason end up disliking it even more. There are the rare poems that I thoroughly enjoy but they are not often enough. The least the author could have done was follow a rhyme scheme. The poems that lack this make for a much more difficult read for me. Why not just write it as a short story instead writing in stanzas and titling it as poetry. Poetry that does not rhyme is the abstract art of literature to me. Anyone can splash paint on a canvas and call it art. I don't have room to criticize because I've never successfully done either but I hope one day that I will find joy in reading poetry.