The course is designed to familiarize students with critical approaches at an elementary level to understanding poetry. The approaches may include 1. The historical-biographical approach; 2. The formalistic approach; 3. The genre approach; 4. The moral philosophical approach, 5. The empirical approach, 6. The psychological approach, 7. The mythological approach, 8. The feministic approach, 9. The cultural studies approach, 10. Cross-cultural and Christian approaches.
