Finding a Good Reason:the Appreciation of a Good Poem in the Process of Teaching

This paper attempts to consider what poems are popular with students and how to recognize a good poem by means of teaching experience in modern poems. In view of students' discussion and reports on Best Taiwanese Pomes,2002 edited by Beiling and my personal experience in the course on Selected Works of Modern Chinese Poems of Female Poets ,poems popular with students are characterized by four aspects:(1) simple diction as well as succinct and fluent expression,which enable students to read poems easily; (2) amiable in subject-matters and in themes of poems,which is likely to strike sympathetic chord in students; (3) lyrical poems or those on intimate emotions or love are apt to appeal to students; (4) symbolic or thought-provoking poems,which can motivate students disliking romantic pomes to read and appreciate such poems rationally.