This journal analyzes strategies used by Indonesian students for writing poetry in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. It discusses how students used templates, vocabulary banks, and sharing personal stories to generate emotions and ideas for poetry. The journal also explores benefits of using poetry writing in EFL classes, such as improving vocabulary, reading skills, writing skills, and introducing literature and culture. It notes that most EFL students initially find English poems uninteresting but become more engaged with poetry writing. The journal concludes that poetry writing can be an effective pedagogical tool for EFL students to engage in meaningful literacy activities and express their personal thoughts in a creative way.

1. A Critical Reading Essay
Puan Salwa ‘Afifah
0304182145
TBI-II/ VII Semesters
State Islamic University of North Sumatera
E-mail: puansalwaafifah05@gmail.com
Fithriani, R. (2021). Poetry writing in EFL classrooms: Learning from Indonesian students’
strategies. In annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL), KnE Social
Sciences, 59-75. Doi: 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8667.
INTRODUCTION
Poetry literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awereness of experience or a
specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and
rhytm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present,
posibbly under some definition the primal and primary form of language themselves.
In Fithriani, 2021, Poetry writing in EFL classroms, she provided that her strategies used
in writing their poems, such as using popular templates as new platform ideas, creating
vocabulary bank for writing rhyming poems and sharring their personal stories help to generates
emotions, which as subsquently be channeled through poetry.
Students may be encouraged to engage in poetry writing as a source of learning,
development, and enjoyment. As a teaching method, it allows EFL students to express their own
voices, develop their own perspectives, construct their knowledge, and exchange analytical and
critical opinions on identities and culture. In a variety of ways, using poetry writing in an EFL
classroom can be beneficial. (a) relevant input and output, (b) communicative fluency, and (c)
literature in the EFL classroom are just a few of the advantages and chances.
This journal provide informations to readers about the strategies students use in writing
poetry in EFL classess. Most of language teachers has very challenging when teaching writing
skills in second language clasess, and because that problem the wrier making a strategies
students use in completing the poetry book project succesfully. Teachers demonstrated a
variety of tactics that they employ to encourage children to write poetry. According to several
research, incorporating poetry in an EFL class can help students improve their vocabulary and
reading skills. Using poetry in an EFL lesson, on the other hand, can help students enhance
their writing skills.
Some schools already provide an extra lesson called English Writing to provide pupils
with supplemental materials for the English topic. However, some of them merely use
curriculum-based teaching approaches, as well as teachers that do not know how to expound in
depth EFL class.
Students may be able to expand their language learning chances by using this method

2. of learning. Distinct locales present different factors, which have a different impact on how
students learn. In addition, using the nested ecosystem theory, I investigated the elements that
influence anxiety in EFL learners speaking.
SUMMARY
In this journal can be concluded that Poetry requires pupils to develop both receptive
and productive skills. It's a type of written communication that could be useful for improving
students' writing fluency and introducing them to the concept of communicating a message via
writing that needs interaction between the writer and the reader. It also allows for the
introduction of literature into the EFL classroom. It's similar to other types of writing in that
it's a vital aspect of literature that may be utilized to teach cultural values and literary
appreciation to students while also improving their language abilities.
As a creative writing class requirement, EFL students' perceptions on poetry writing and
the tactics they utilized to successfully finish their poetry volumes. In contrast to popular
belief, most EFL students do not appreciate English poems and find them uninteresting.
Teachers demonstrated a variety of tactics that they employ to encourage children to write
poetry. According to several research, incorporating poetry in an EFL class can help students
improve their vocabulary and reading skills. Using poetry in an EFL lesson, on the other hand,
can help students enhance their writing skills.
Learning occurs when simple parts are put together, which reveals the emergence of
concepts in poetry writing. The components include not only students and teachers, but also
physical and temporal environment properties such as temperature, weather, day/week/year,
and the locations where poetry writing activity is conducted. As a result, language acquisition
takes place at various levels of nestedness.
Poetry encourages EFL students to use figurative language, adjectivals, phrases, and
symbolic words to communicate their emotions in a natural way. They will readily learn
something if they hear, read, or write it rhytmically. As a result, the tactics are anticipated to
use poetry writing as a model for learning English, which may come from students' personal
experiences. It was supposed that there were any specific ways for using poetry writing as a
model for learning English.
This study suggests that poetry writing be used as a pedagogical practice of meaningful
literacy since it is an excellent technique to engage EFL students in the learning process. It's a
basic tash that allows students to express their personal thoughts in poetry and believe that the
end result is truly important to them.
CRITIC
In this journal I think there are some advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are
the first isa few new strategies we can learn to write the poem. This journal also explains how a

3. teacher knows a basic thing in his poem and also how the teacher teaches how to write his poem,
so it's very good for the newbies. Then some of the advantages also show how well defined the
format in this journal is, so we are not confused about the journal because it is neatly arranged
and sequential. And also seen in the journal is a lot of references to both the journal, the article
and the book. Some of the sources of literature have been published as well, so it is easy to find
another source, since it is clearly stated. From this journal too teachers can easily teaching
writing poetry because this journals already give the teachers new strategies to used. In this
journal used body note so we easily know the source than used footnote.
The disadvantages may be in a language that is difficult for students to understand, for
this journal is in scientific language and is also under advanced knowledge. There are some
advantages of this journal is tell how to increase the vocabulary , improve the writing and
reading skills and encourage students to think critically and creatively in analyzing a text. So
there are some words that are obviously difficult to understand, and then they make up difficult
language, so it detracts people's interest in reading this journal. At the results and discussion
section there are some pictures about poetry that has been written have a error because the
picture resolution is not clear. And at the other section I think the writer should give more
experience or examples about the difficulties from write the poems so the reader can compare
with the three strategies.
CONCLUSION
From this journal we can suggest that the submissive may greatly assist EFL students in
adding a new vocabulary and also selecting the right words according to circumstances and
feelings. Also in this journal there are many strategies that can be learned to motivate and
improve students in writing and learning learning, we can use the three strategies already
outlined in the journal.
Other Use as a source of content reading material, a model of creative language in use, a
technique to present vocabulary in context, and a way to focus students attention on English
pronunciation, rhytm, and stress are all reasons to use poetry in EFL teaching and learning.
Furthermore, poetry uses language to evoke and elevate specific aspects of life, as well as to
elicit emotional responses from readers. Poetry is one of the most effective and strong cultural
transmitters. Poems contain a large number of cultural characteristics, such as vocabularies,
idioms, and tones, which are difficult to translate into another language.
These journals can also encourage students to learn and think more deeply by bringing
their emotions and digging for yet another new language to write these entries. Petry writing was
unexpectedly warmly received by the students in the study, and they expressed a strong desire to
create poems for their english writing class.
When teaching poetry in an EFL classroom, students struggled to use the poetical word.
When presented with Indonesian poetry, students face a variety of challenges, the most common

4. of which being linguistcs and a lack of enthusiasm in poetry. As a result, kids became more
engaged and began to communicate with one another. Furthermore, the stylistic method is used
to solve one of the most difficult challenges in teaching poetry to EFL students.
It also allows for the introduction of literature into the EFL classroom. It's similar to other
types of writing in that it's a vital aspect of literature that may be utilized to teach cultural values
and literary appreciation to students while also improving their language abilities. As a creative
writing class requirement, EFL students' perceptions on poetry writing and the tactics they
utilized to successfully finish their poetry volumes. In contrast to popular belief, most EFL
students do not appreciate English poems and find them uninteresting.
REFERENCE
Fithriani, R. (2021). Poetry writing in EFL classrooms: Learning from Indonesian students’
strategies. In annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL), KnE Social
Sciences, 59-75. Doi: 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8667.