[edoloughlin]

> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry...

As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions...

What need you, being come to sense,

But fumble in a greasy till

And add the halfpence to the pence

And prayer to shivering prayer, until

You have dried the marrow from the bone