How to Read Poetry

I found this reading very interesting. Poetry has always been one of those things that is a little scary for me. I feel like when I read poetry I am afraid of it because I don't understand. It is hard for me to except things I don't understand, so I tend to stay away from poetry. I liked this reading because it reassured me that poetry doesn't always come easy. I like how it gives you steps on how to better understand a poem. The whole reading made me want to learn to read poetry. I can't say that I will like reading after I learn, but I hope that I will like it much better than I do now. I do not want to be afraid of it. I like that face that it tells you to talk to the poem and ask questions about the poem. It talks about the rythm of poetry and how sometimes that can give the poem a whole different meaning, that was interesting to me because I never knew that about poetry. I also like the part where it says that you have to work at poetry. No one has ever told me this before. I never understood that you were supposed to work at it rather that just understanding it like a regular reading of a book or something like that.