TEACHING ENGLISH LITERATURE :

TEACHING POETRY MADE EASY
In general literature is a writing which expresses and communicates thoughts, feelings and attitude towards life. Among the existing literary forms, poetry is the most intensely emotive and makes sound and formal structure parts of its means expression. If these characteristics are taken into consideration, the teaching of poetry will be quite formidable. Also, a certain degree of language proficiency is required.

However, there is a simpler approach to the teaching of poetry. We should start from the assumption that poetry is simply someone talking to himself/herself (a soliloquy) and we happen to overhear him or her. To what extent this true is not our immediate concern, but it is certainly a helpful approach. Ideas and emotions flow more freely when we use this approach. The readers identify themselves with the speaker. This paper deals with and discusses poems in which the speaker is expressing his thoughts and feelings. Under the guidance of the teacher, the students try to get at the inside world of the poet, understand his thoughts and feelings, in short, his personality.