Among the specific goals the students are expected to achieve in this course are the following:

        *to be able to identyify different types of poetry,

         *to be able to identify 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 be able to analyze and interpret the major poems written in different periods (but mostly in 20th century) with a critical awareness and intellectual sophistication