The study of poetry (reference 1) 1. The Nature and Elements of Poetry. What is Poetry?—Some Definitions—Some Elements of Poetry—Poetry as a Form of Art—Poetry and Metre—The Significance of Rhythm—Rhythm a NaturalVehicle of Poetic Feeling. 2. Poetry as an Interpretation of Life. Poetry and Science—Poetic Truth—Fidelity to Fact in Poetry —The ‘Pathetic Fallacy’—The Poetic Use of Scientific Knowledge—Another Aspect of Poetic Truth—Poetry the Complement of Science. 3. Poetry as Revelation. Poetry and Life—The Revealing Power of Poetry—The Ultimate Standard of Greatness in Poetry—Didacticism in Poetry. 4. The Classification of Poetry. The Two Great Divisions of Poetry—Subjective Poetry—Its Simpler Forms — Meditative and Philosophical Poetry—The Ode—The Elegy—Other Kinds of Subjective Poetry —Objective Poetry—The Ballad—The Epic—The Metrical Romance—Other Kinds of Narrative Poetry—Dramatic Poetry. 5. The Study of Poetic Form. The Elements of English Metre—Metrical Variation—Characteristics of Different Metres—Rime— Stanzas—Blank Verse—Other Aspects of Poetic Technique. 6. The Study of Poetry and the Appreciation of Poetry. The Study of Poetry—The Appeciation of Poetry. Poetry for students (reference 2) 1. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night- by Dylan Thomas 2. Miss Rosie – by Lucille Clifton 3. Those Winter Sundays – by Robert Hayden 4. Sonnet 130 – by William Shakespeare