We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.