Poetry Problems

I already knew what my biggest problems were with poetry going into the poetry multiple choice section of the book, and my thoughts have only been reinforced. There are two things in poetry that spell doom for me. The more a poem fulfills one of these two categories the more trouble I'll have with it. Firstly, is old English. The older the poem the harder the English is for me to understand. The Keats poem wasn't old enough where this was too much of an issue, but whenever there's a word that's asterisked, I typically have to look and see the definition provided. Different prepositions also make things harder. But having read plenty of Shakespeare in my schooling, old English isn't as difficult as it used to be. Now my biggest problem with poetry is digging through all of the figurative language to dissect the plot and meaning of the poems. Unlike book, poems don't just tell you what's happening. Books tell you what's happening and then provide description and detail. Poems tend to be very heavy on detail and leave you on your own to use that detail to figure out what's happening, and I don't like having to piece those things together myself. The less clear a poem is in its plot and meaning, the more trouble I'll have with it.