Among the specific goals the students are expected to achieve in this course are the following:
*to be able to identify and analyze technical elements and figures of speech used in them
*to be able to develop their analytical skills needed for in-depth study of poems
* to improve their ability to articulate ideas about and respond to the poems against the backdrop of different philosophical schools with an epistemological awareness,
* to learn how to write insightful papers on the poems covered in the class,