For teenagers, your best bet would be alternative forms of poetry, beyond the classics.
A perfect example, is the work of the British punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
Recommend pieces of 'The Bard of Salford' works are:
* Evidently Chickentown
* Beasley Street
* The It Man
* Majorca
Read it! Then ask someone else to do it
It is a poem that speaks about how teenagers have communication problems with their parents.
you read a poem like anything else
About 55% of teenagers read books in the 1990s in the United States.
loads do, Twlight is very big in America so loads of people read it. I do, and it's really good
Of course! You can share your poem with me and I'll be happy to read it.
Frank Peretti's - Tombs of Anak! Exciting and excellent read.
I am 14 and I read a book called "The Teenagers Guide To Money" by Jonathan Self. It was really good really good and taught me how to handle, save, spend, invest, store and generally look after my money.
Give them something they will want to read. Something that will interest them.
about the 10%
read the poem out loud
That depends entirely on which poem, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote quite a few. That and poems, being relatively short, are rarely summarized. It would likely be to your benefit to read whatever poem it is that you are supposed to read instead of searching in vain for its summary. Good luck.