If any art is to be taught in schools, it has to be Poetry, for poetry is the only
artistic form of a core subject.
Learning the basics of literature and language is not designed to be fun or enjoyable,
it is an essential requirement. It is important that students can get to grips with
the basics of their home language and a standard 'look, cover, write, check' method
for learning spelling and expanding vocabulary is effective, for it requires the learner
to write the words themselves. Simply reading them is not enough, especially not in the context of a poem- unconventional,
even strange concepts typical of poetry may well be too demanding for the pupil, whose
priority is to learn writing and reading. They can still learn reading through the cultural means of reading novels, in which the
extended prose used by the author is far easier to follow.