Reading poetry

I have read about thirty odd poems in the lit. text and I can say, that for me, most the poems written before 1920 need to come with a translation to modern speech. I like the haiku's, I guess they fit my attention span. I liked Cinderella by Anne Sexton, more of a narrative than a poem, it tells a familiar story with a fresh twist that appealed to my twisted sense of humor. I liked Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath, she is writing about birthdays that move her into a new decade of age; tens, twenties, thirties...these are B-days of note and I get the sentiment. She might be putting to much importance on the change in age from twenty-something to thirty-something... but maybe that's her point, we all put a lot of who we are into age and the decades of our lives.