Released in 2017, National Standards of Teaching Quality for Undergraduate English Majors pinpoints English major is a discipline of humanities, English literature is one of the teaching cores, and the cultivation of student’s overall quality is the ultimate objective of undergraduate education. Thus, it is urgent to reform the traditional teaching method of English literature which merely relies on teacher’s impartment and student’s memorization of literary knowledge. Instead, English literature teaching expressions. Based on the teaching reform carried out at School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, this should pay more attention to student’s aesthetic experience of language as well as emotions and thoughts delivered through literary article elaborates on several teaching cases of English poetry in the course of Essential English for freshmen, exemplifying the model of “immersed” English poetry teaching. This teaching model is founded upon student’s primal aesthetic experience after reading aloud the poem. Under the guidance of teacher’s heuristic questions, this model enables students to detect the musical quality of the poem, examine the images and their symbolic meanings from various perspectives, explore as well as interpret the implications, therefore synthesizing student’s sensibility with rationality and realizing the ideals of aesthetic education.