I, Too, Dislike It (for the Class of 2010)

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this ---fiddle. -Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in -it after all, a place for the genuine. (from a poem called Poetry, 1921)

These are lines from Marianne Moore's poem entitled, Poetry, that might express your own sentiments about the genre (especially the first line). Moore, however, was specifically expressing her disdain for the poetry of her time that had become overly esoteric.

On the other hand, I don't see any evidence of displeasure coming from the cows that are listening to the poetry reading in this old Far Side cartoon. I think that they hear the poet's message loud and clear: "Don't fence me in."