Poetry In Highschool?

Poetry is a main course in many high schools as a result of the pure essence of importance it holds in people's lives. Poetry comes in more than the regular rhyming scheme prose that people always think of; instead it appears daily in everyone's life. without understanding of the mechanics of poetry, we cannot understand ancient writings and therefore will not be able to understand history. Also, poetry is an expression of one's culture, and therefore it differs vastly from other cultures. By gaining an understanding of how the author uses poetry, one can gain knowledge of the history of that culture to learn about it to its fullest extent. Without learning poetry a student cannot understand history, religion, or even science in some ways as well. As much as I hate to say it, poetry should be taught in every school.