IGNTU, B.A. 1 Sem. English Major

 

B.A. 1^st Semester

Unit 1

Meaning and Definition of Poetry
Kinds of Poetry
Functions and role of Poetry
Forms of Poetry: Lyric, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Epic, Mock-epic, Ballad, Satire, Dramatic Monologue
Literary Devices of Poetry: Figure of Speech, Meter, Rhythm, Rhyme, Imagery
Major Literary Movements and Poetry: Metaphysical Poetry, Pre- Raphelite Poetry
 

Unit 2
William Shakespeare   : “From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase”, “Shall I Compare Thee to a                                             summer’s Day
John Donne                  :  “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “Flea”
John Milton                 :  “On His Blindness”, “When the Assault was intended to the City”
 
Unit 3
John Dryden               : “Portrait of Shadwell”  Opening 30 lines of Mac Flecknoe: “All Human …                                             Prophet of tautology
Alexander Pope          : The Rape of the Lock
Thomas Gray              : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Unit 4
 
William Wordsworth  :  “Resolution and Independence”, “Daffodils”
ST Coleridge               : “Frost at Midnight”
John Keats                  : “Ode to a Nightingale” 
PB Shelley                  : “Ode to the West Wind”
 
Unit 5
Alfred Tennyson         : Break, Break, Break
Robert Browning        : “My Last Duchess”
Matthew Arnold         : “To Marguerite”
T.S. Eliot                     : “Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”