What do you wish you'd learned at school about poetry?

[Brownlie]

There is more to poetry than shock value. I loved Bukowski in my teens and when I am drunk I look to him for inspiration, but poetry is so much more than profanity communicates. It can be so much more eloquent. It has guided me through so much loneliness but I would hate if a teacher gave me false praise. Please be everyone honest and remember what art can give us in these times where god is dead. God was patriarchal this is true but now we live in times of scientific bleakness we need things like poetry to teach that we are humans prone to folly... I could go on but it would seem preachy.