“…As one of the most sophisticated forms of literary, poetry is unquestionably an important segment of the foreign language curriculum (Maley, 1987 ; Finch, 2003 ; Cahnmann, 2006 ; Khan, 2020 ). Even though learning poetry can help foreign language learners deepen their understanding of the target language culture (Tevdovska, 2016 ) and improve their language skills (Mittal, 2016 ; Aladini and Farahbod, 2019 ), several studies have found that poetry learning is the least favorable literature genre among foreign language learners (Hirvela and Boyle, 1988 ; Vijayarajoo et al, 2019 ; Wai and Abidin, 2020 ). Since liking is one of the integrative motivations that influence language learning (Elyildirim and Ashton-Hay, 2006 ), there is a need to explore factors that influence learners' liking for poetry so as to motivate them to learn poetry and improve their language skills.…”