This thesis suggests the characteristics, objectives, and contents of vocabulary education in poetry education. Poetic symbols could be a suitable target because they involve various meanings and express abstract ideas through specific objects. This paper proposes a creative imagination as a specific lexical competence for poetry education because it can help learners understand various meanings of symbols. Vocabulary education based on learning poetic symbols can help learners increase cognitive and affective thinking and reflect their knowledge of everyday words. It can also help them understand cultures and prepare a personal language dictionary. This paper set three learning stages focusing on poetry dealing with “flowers” for understanding poetic symbols and developing a system of language and thinking.