“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.”
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
