Usually, when learning poetry, students are encouraged to let their imagination run wild and consider elements relating to a poem, such as historical background, the poet’s biography, and figures of speech to come up with the literary interpretation. However, this traditional way of learning poetry is too ideal, complicated, and difficult, especially for new poetry students. The purpose of this study was to apply a supporting device, speech act theory, in the linguistics field to learn poetry in the literature field. Felicity conditions of ...