This course is designed to train students in the art of appreciating poetry. Focuses upon the formal properties of poetry and studies the conventions of the genre as it develops within or across historical periods and/or cultures. The first part of the class will introduce a variety of short poems and educate students in skills necessary for reading and understanding poetry. They also will learn how to scan lines for meter and rhythm; learn how to do simple analysis to the use of figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, personification, allusion and so on; and they also will identify and appreciate techniques of sound and structure for better understanding and appreciating poetry works. The course will modify the method of lecturing, performance, group discussion, question and answer, and peer assessment.

· Being able to make use of some literary concepts of poetry in analyzing poetry works (PLO 2)

· Understanding some knowledge of theoretical concepts of poetry and making more sense of the nature of poetry so that the students could do their literary appreciation on poetry works (PLO 4)

· Being able to select appropriate concepts in appreciating and understanding poetry as well as know how to make use of those concepts in their daily construe with poetry works (PLO 8)

• Being responsible for sharing knowledge to other students and teachers when they have to deal with literary appreciation especially on poetry and other works of literature as well.(PLO 9)
  

1. Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Gioia (2002) An Introduction to Poetry . New York: Longman

2. Wolosky, Shira (2001) The Art of Poetry. How to Read A Poem . Oxford: OUP, Inc.

Supplementary readings:

1. Altenbernd, Lynn and Lesslie Lewis (1966) A Handbook for the Study of Poetry . London: The Macmillan Company

2. Barnett, Sylvan. et al (1995) An Introduction to Literature . New York: HarperCollins College Publishers

3. Capella, David and Wormser, Baron (2000) Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

4. Grace, William J (1965) Response to Literature . New York: McGraw-Hill Company

5. Holman, Hugh C (1981) A Handbook to Literature . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill Educational Publishing

6. McMichael (1980) Editor. Anthology of American Literature . New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc.,

7. Perrine, Laurence (1977) Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry . New York: New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

8. Reaske, Christopher R (1970) The Writer’s Guide to the Study of Literature, New York: Random House

9. Rosenthal, M.L. and A. J. M. Smith (1973) Exploring Poetry . New York: The Macmillan Company

10. Shaw, Harry (1972) Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. New York: McGraw-Hill.

11. Wayne, Philip (1946) The Heritage of Poetry: English Poems for Chaucer to the Present Day . London: Longmans, Green and Co,