Généralités
We have been teaching literature for a duration that has led us to judge the difficulty of such
discipline for most of our students who are mostly selected in English department with a
baccalaureate in letters with a background in Arabic poetry and prose. This is why, they are
often shocked at the difficulty of studying a foreign literature, especially English poetry that is
a real handicap for non native learners and beginner teachers. So, we intend to write such
guide book to help them surpass their difficulties and enable them get more clarifications
about literary concepts that are not different from those skillfully learnt in Arabic but they
need to grasp them in another language and a different culture through excerpts of poetry and
titles of famous poets in British literature. This guide book boils down the ways to analysing
English Poetry where basic concepts about poetical genres, rhetoric devices and scansion
techniques were set in a simplistic way intentionally meant to introduce learners to the
world of poetry with confidence and trust. After teaching poetry for years we have
realized that more attention is required for new teachers and learners to be introduced to
poetry analysis. So, we intend to produce a thorough work including the best poets
from the romantic era to enable the learner grasp the least necessary for poetry analysis, and
to intensify that basic knowledge. This guide book can help its readers to carry over. Also
our wishes grow confidently that any production from our part related to poetry directly
relates to an evolving appreciation of studying and analyzing poems with love, pleasure
and interest.