Teaching Poetry to Undergraduate Students

This study aims at finding ways of “decomposing” the poetic text into fragments which can render a minimal meaning to individuals who have had little contact to literary analysis and thus creating a profitable context for hermeneutical activities. Methods of teaching poetic texts have been developed in literature classes in the last years, methods which seem not only to bring the meaning closer to students, but to increase their interest in reading poetry. Eventually, this leads to a profitable assesment in for the competences that are suggested in the academic curriculum.