Some people are intimidated by poetry just as others are frightened of art, wine, or fashion. Don’t be.
Sure...why peoples scary to poetry. It has lot of meanings. Peoples must follow there contents lines. Those days and current poets made social problems indeed poetry. It most valuable for fix some problems. So I tell every peoples must need to follow best poems. Thanks for the long information. I'll check it out your link.
Maybe 'intimidated' would be a better word. What I meant was that some people are scared by the literary snobs and their vocabulary, when many of the poems themselves are quite accessible to average people.