I agree. I think a lot of this falls to how poetry is taught in schools.

There's a bunch of emphasis on the basic mechanics, but there is almost no insight at all into what makes a poem compelling.

Take, for instance, the humble haiku. I was taught it was three lines with a set number of syllables. No insight into there Japanese language, the meaning behind recurring themes, or even it's origins in collaborative poetry called renku.

You can draw a line from haiku, to wood block prints, to dada and surrealism, to beatnicks and the Beatles.

Western / English poetry is treated even worse. Lessons usually boil down to "write out words so that some rhyme in the right places".

There are some fantastic English poets throughout history and today, buried in a sea of unfortunate imitations.