Abstract:
The present research attempts to examine the effects of intensive reading of poetry on English as a foreign language students’ literary competence. In EFL settings, intensive reading holds great significance as it enables learners to engage with texts, understand deep meanings, and thoroughly analyze elements of language. Moreover, diction, imagery, figures of speech, and sound devices have an important role in learning English as they use figurative meanings besides their literary meaning, and create special rhythmic sounds. It was hypothesized that if EFL students read poetry intensively, they can develop their literary competence at the level of remembering, understanding, applying, and analysing different literary devices
