Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not helpful

This book isn't helpful as an introduction to how to read and interpret poetry. It assumes a very modern point of view and neglects most of poetic history. Further it perpetuates old chestnuts like the myth of rhythm in "free verse." Much better is something like Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell. Even better is Timothy Steele's introduction All The Fun's In How You Say a Thing.