What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry?
These poems suggest that we should approach all poetry with an open mind, to 'dive headfirst', to let yourself be amazed and surprised by poetry, to consume the poem in it's entirety without holding back.
What is one specific example (evidence from the text)?
One of the poems, 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam, has a main message that is telling us to approach a poem head-first- "Don’t be polite. Bite in,"- and to savor every word, not waste anything, "...and lick the juice that may run down your chin." Eating fruit has been used as a metaphor, the purpose of this was to help us understand the message in a more engaging way, that we should read a poem as it you were eating fruit, to not waste a drop and to lick the juice off our chins, to approach a poem head-on.
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