Comment by nonstickcoating

That's really interesting. In Germany poetry is handled differently. In the earlier years of what would be high-school there are poets like Jandel[0] and Morgenstern[1] in the curriculum who wrote a lot of funny, nonsensical poems playing with language a lot. Later (if you do schooling aimed at getting you to university) there is a lot of in-depth reading of romantic[2]as well as clacissist (think the latet works of Goethe and Schiller) poetry. Also, at least in my Latin classes, we also read Ovid, as well as Shakespeare's sonnets. These poems are analysed regarding their contents, as well as more formally concerning meter etc. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jandl [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Morgenstern [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism