How to read Poetry.

This helped me change my bad attitude about poetry a bit.  I am the kind of person who gets easily frustrated trying to understand it.  This paper made me feel better by stating that you aren't going to get it the first time you read it and just because you don't understand it doesn't mean you are stupid.  One thing it emphasized was that you need to ask questions about the meaning.  In class we discussed the red wheelbarrow poem.  My first thought was that this is a pretty lame poem.  I couldn't believe someone would publish this and people liked it.  As the class discussed it I noticed that the other students got more from it than I did.  It was pretty impressive.  As they told their feelings I could somewhat put it together better.  One thing that will probably confuse me is that everyone is going to get something different out of it.  That makes me feel like you are taking away from what the author intended.