Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world.

The Therapeutic Value of Poetry Gaining Awareness and Overcoming Defenses (Neuro) Psychoanalytic Regression and Integration The Teacher as (Whole, Useful, Permanent) Object The Poem as (Self-, Transformational, Transitional, Reparative) Object A Poetry Therapy Model for the Classroom Cultivating Empathy: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads Reparative Text: Tennyson's In Memoriam Integrating Experience: Morris's The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems Desire and Reparation: Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems

TODD O. WILLIAMSAssistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.