art
Poetry and art go hand in hand; in fact, a poem is just art in the written form.
Bad Teachers Don't Ruin Poetry, Bad Readers Do
I have often heard people say that they might have liked poetry but studying it in school put them off it; that a terrible English teacher made them read sonnets and was so dreadfully dull that they permanently associated the two in some sort of Pavlovian conditioning. Nonsense. One does not look at a painting and deny it's beauty because they had a poor art teacher. People still appreciate music even if their musical education was pathetic. No, it is indeed the inadequacy of the reader and not the failure of a teacher.
By Jake Street7 years ago in Poets