What poem or play

[RiverNotch]

Honestly, Shakespeare in high school (which I believe was more like middle school in the States) was what got me into poetry as poetry, mainly Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice and how we were made to try out writing in iambic pentameter.

But, like, there was also the copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology I got in primary school, and also in primary school we were made to read and even memorize whole chunks of the Bible. I suppose that's more literature in general than poetry, though.

Was this in the Philippines? Quite a Eurocentric syllabus for an Asian country.

We had English classes and Filipino classes, for English classes we had English literature (though at one point we were made to read Pearl S. Buck, Chinua Achebe, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez....didn't quite finish Marquez, myself xD), for Filipino classes we had Filipino literature (although the selection, for some reason, was pretty narrow).