Of the few experiences with poetry that I have had, the poetry out loud experience was probably the most positive one. It allowed me to find a poem that I actually enjoyed reading and made me memorize it. I may have had a tough time figuring out what it meant, but I still enjoyed figuring out what it meant and then reading it. So far, it has been one of the few poems that I have actually enjoyed. I'm sure there are others, but I have yet to find them. I hope to find more to help make me enjoy poetry.

Most of the poetry we have read in class I haven't really liked. I don't know what kind of poetry I like, but none of the poems we have read in class have fit what I liked. Most of the time when I think of poetry, I think of it as really boring and something I don't want to read or analyze. Poetry really doesn't excite me and that may be because I don't understand it.