This course gives you a guide to explore, discuss and appreciate the complexity of poems as a literary genre  and develops their ability to analyze and interpret poetry. It is geared towards appreciating poetry through understanding the elements that build it, such as the choice of diction, the use of figurative language, sound and rhythms, symbolism and allusion, etc. The understanding of how these elements work  in a poem is expected to equip you with the necessary tools to be able to read, interpret, an discuss poems with enough sophistication that is expected of a language-major subject.