Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone?

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.