J. CONCLUSION
Ï Poetry as part of literary works is important thing to be introduced and taught to students early, since it has specific characteristics.
Ï Literary works such – as poetry, drama, novels, and so on have a great influence to peoples’ life;
Ï When people’s life is started with a close relationship with literary works, the beauty and the gentleness of the literary works would help them to think and act at least as gentle as the rhyme and rhythm of poetry;
Ï It is not always true that the teachers must love the subject they are teaching to create an interest in Poetry.
Ï Poetry is not only having specific characteristics, furthermore, it can be also used to say something (Musthafa: 2004).
Ï Poetry is meant to be read, heard, and enjoyed, rather than “studied”.
Ï Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility and by recollecting, we learn to feel, learn to experience nature in all its wild beauty, learn about the mysteries of the universe, and learn about love, happiness, joy and sorrow;
Ï The basic problem in teaching literature s well as poetry in Indonesia is the lack of teachers’ competencies in teaching it to the students, so teachers have reluctance to teach by means of literature (poetry);
Ï Some students assume that literature is only for students who have language program, rather than social and science program;
Ï In teaching poetry as well as drama, tales, etc, could be applied in teaching four skills of language (reading, writing, speaking and listening). Moreover, by means of poetry, we might transfer to the students some vocabularies, structure, pronunciation as well as the four skills in English.
