How do i learn to appreciate poetry?

>>8791458
reading it out loud is the first big step

How did you learn to appreciate prose?
Do the same thing

>>8791458
by reading it

4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry

>>8791458
i really struggle to see what's so funny, would they laugh at anything?

>there's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together

Well...you ARE Herzog.

>>8791458
pick up an anthology, find one or two poets whose style speaks to you, read them entirely. branch off from there by reading within their eras or traditions (romantic, victorian, modernist, confessional, beat, new school, etc.). rinse and repeat. always be reading new poets. eventually you'll get a general sense of what you like, while building a real love for the art.