This paper is intended to introduce the learners to poetry in terms of its important characteristics as a literary genre. The students are expected to gain experience of the dexterity of poetry via focusing on nominated poems of various categories with a wide range of issues and themes. The objective of this literary task is to equip learners with the essential and required techniques to appreciate meaning of poetry and understand how poems are created, shedding light on several poetic devices and tools, such as metaphor, personification, connotation, simile, denotation, etc., to aid and support learners.