How I Feel About Poetry

 I love it! Unfortunately, reading it isn't always a piece of cake. When I'm reading  older poetry I have to mentally prepare myself to focus and to catch all the details. Older forms of poetry  can be time consuming for me,  in part due to the  language. Although the poetry of centuries past can be romantic, haunting, and inspiring, word choice and the at times infuriating mysteriousness of  sentence structuring can be overwhelming when trying to understand the poems purpose. For example, when reading Shakespeare I feel that I quite often get bogged down by his play on words and as a result I  tend to miss the important details as I'm trying  frantically to figure out what this word or that word means.