Where do I begin if I want to understand poetry? And please,

>>7418471
This is all you need: http://www.bartleby.com/146/

Start with Aristotle's Poetics

>>7418471
Is it just me, or does he look like a younger version of the crazy doctor from Fringe?

>>7418614
I think he looks like T. S. Eliot, Anonymous.

I recommend reading the book The Best Poems of the English Language, edited by Harold Bloom, OP. It has many of the best poems of the English language.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Flame_and_Shadow

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>>7418471
I always liked The sad indian.

>>7418471
Yeats and Thomas are great poets who are really digestible. If the Second Coming doesn't get your dick hard then I don't know what ever could tbqh.

>>7418471
Reading some translations of Sappho got me into reading poetry. Also try Catullus and Wang Wei.

For more modern stuff, Lawrence Durrell.

>>7419410
Sappho is great, read her OP.

ode on a grecian urn by keats

>>7418471
>where do I begin if I want to understand poetry

Music. Now listen to music, music that inspires you, and get ready to write in a beat and rhythm.

That's it.

>>7418471
If you're struggling with it, try reading something like "The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem." To properly understand poetry, you have to know about syntax, meter, tone, etc.
Also, try writing some of your own poetry. You'll quickly learn how difficult it is to write beautiful verse.

>>7419403
dylan and edward thomas are good