With its rich rhyme scheme , its `` hammered gold and gold enamelling , '' it is a poem fit to memorize . Robert Burt : National Poetry Month and celebration of spring both great reasons to try poetry . He says poets have long explored the warring emotion that change of seasons brings . He says beauty , life , death collide . ` ` It is spring ! We are going to die , '' wrote Louise Gluck . Burt : Poems help us experience life . They are to be read , written , memorized . Try it !
Robert Burt : National Poetry Month and celebration of spring both great reasons to try poetry . He says poets have long explored the warring emotion that change of seasons brings . He says beauty , life , death collide . ` ` It is spring ! We are going to die , '' wrote Louise Gluck . Burt : Poems help us experience life . They are to be read , written , memorized . Try it !