What's The Point of Poetry?

     To be honest, I don't think I've ever really understood the point of poetry. I guess it sounds cool and it has deeper meaning, but why not just say the insightful meaning straight up? I could never appreciate poetry because my mindset was too straightforward. I wanted a solution as quickly as possible and didn't understand what the point of being abstract or artistic was. Now, I can kind of appreciate it a little bit more, but still not as much as a lot of others do. 

    Through all my other classes, I wanted to have a clear way to get to the correct solution. However, in English there are many "correct answers." This was very hard for me to understand, but I think now I'm getting it a little more. Like many things, it's up to the interpreter. Just like how they say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," some insight could make complete sense for one person and another may not have gotten anything out of it. This is why I think poetry exists. It allows people to develop their own insights on what they think the poem is about, allowing them to create their own meaning for the work, adding to its value, rather than the poet saying what they interpreted it as, making that the only correct answer because they wrote it. Poetry is whatever you take out of it, I guess. And, although I realize this, I can appreciate it a little bit more, but still haven't found a liking for it. I'll try to enjoy poetry as much as possible, but who knows what will happen.