Your roadmap · आपका रोडमैप
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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Part 1 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 1Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 1: Forms and Devices of PoetryUnit 2: Chaucer to the Metaphysical PoetsUnit 3: Neo-classical and Romantic Poetry
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: Victorian PoetryUnit 5: Modern Poetry
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 2 exam (university / board)विश्वविद्यालय / बोर्ड परीक्षाPrevious papers and full revision before the exam.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Syllabus · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 5 chapters · 20 topics
01Unit 1: Forms and Devices of Poetry
4 topics+
- Lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, dramatic monologue
- Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
- Rhyme, rhythm and metre
- Critical appreciation of a poem
02Unit 2: Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poets
4 topics+
- Chaucer: Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
- Shakespeare: Sonnets 18 and 116
- John Donne and the metaphysical poets
- John Milton: On His Blindness
03Unit 3: Neo-classical and Romantic Poetry
5 topics+
- Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray
- William Wordsworth
- S.T. Coleridge
- P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
- John Keats: odes
04Unit 4: Victorian Poetry
3 topics+
- Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
- Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
- Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
05Unit 5: Modern Poetry
4 topics+
- W.B. Yeats
- T.S. Eliot
- Robert Frost
- Wilfred Owen and the war poets
About this course
You will be able to
- Identify poetic forms such as sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad and dramatic monologue
- Recognise figures of speech and basic metre in a poem
- Explain prescribed poems of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
- Explain prescribed Romantic poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats
- Explain Victorian and modern poems of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Yeats, Eliot and Frost
- Write reference-to-context and critical appreciation answers
Who it is for
- B.A Semester 2 students with English as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- Students preparing for TGT / PGT / UGC NET English
What you need
- English Prose and Writing Skills (Semester 1) or good reading English
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Student login →
Questions
Which syllabus does this course follow?
It follows the UP State Universities NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus (MGKVP, VBSPU, Lucknow University and others) for B.A English, Semester 2. Where your own university's syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.
How will I be tested?
Unit-wise MCQ tests, short and long answer practice in university exam pattern, and a final mock paper.
How do I write a critical appreciation?
A fixed method is taught: theme, form, imagery, figures of speech, tone and personal response, with practice on unseen poems.
