Learning Poetry in School

Robert Frost. Walking through the woods on a snowy evening...I learned it in 4th grade!

I really don't know how to appreciate poetry, I am more on novels because I find it easy to understand. :) But I really have high respects on poets because for me creating poem is really difficult with figure of speech and the like on it. :)

@puddleglum I too had to study poems in school and college.Apart from that I have read many poems just because I liked them. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!/Bird thou never wert,( To the Skylark by P.B.Shelly),My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats) ,Stopping by the woods...By Robert Frost and Daffodils by Wordsworth etc are just a few of them.

I only recall word for word poems I read over and over again. For some reason I am not good at it. But I do think poetry is great and people who write from deep inside their soul make the best poets. I also learned that not all poems rhyme. These days it seems more RAP music rhymes but then I don't consider that poetry. Ezra Pound was one I used to read and this one called, "No Man Is An Island: by John Donne:

We did in school. Even writen an interpretation

I enjoy memorizing poems when I was in elementary. Then I didn't like them in high school. Too much analyzing their meanings. It's like English is my second language and I understand the nuances that native speakers take for granted. But don't ask me to explain the rules of grammar. Same with poetry, It's more a "feeling" thing than an intellectual process..

I enjoy reading and memorizing poetry. I loved Robert Frost, and Maxine Hong Kingston

we only studied composition of verse at school - I learned to love poetry from seeing old footage of Dylan Thomas reading his work on TV - he is still my favourite - the other big influence on me is John Cooper Clark, the punk poet who I saw live

I can still remember some poetry that I learned at school, but in those days I didn't like poetry at all. I love it now and even dabble a bit myself.

I remember most of my English from school as I put it into practice in my adulthood - not like the children of today

I've memorized parts of poems. But not whole ones. I've taken a stab at Blake's The Sick Rose, because it's short, and caught my attention in college, but I often get a bit confused even when repeating that one. rose (or is it: oh rose?) thou art sick/the invisible worm/that flies in the night/of the howling storm...I have favorite lines from some poems: where ignorant armies clash by night (Arnold's Dover Beach), my little horse must find it queer (or is it think it queer; Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening), but my TV-generation attention span prohibits more.

We were required to memorize Joyce Kilmer TREES.