Help I don't understand poetry

It is all pretentious shit and makes no sense

(Except Japanese haiku; for some reason they really get to me. OH, and in the ORIGINAL JAPANESE, not the shitty English "translations.")

>>7,8

After reading your later posts I have concluded that your are both retarded.

>>18

Is right, not >>19. Poetry is all about using and understanding the quirks of a language and its attached culture to express interesting ideas and stories within exceedingly confining limitations. I'm not the biggest fan of the stuff either, but take a look at >>22 and see how the poet was able to convey so much atmosphere, character, and emotion through only four stanzas. That's the important part, and you simply cannot get the same meaning in a different language that belongs to an entirely different culture.