English Poetry (B.A English)

Study of English poetry from Chaucer and Shakespeare through the Romantics and Victorians to modern poets.

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01Unit 1: Forms and Devices of Poetry 4 टॉपिक
  1. Lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, dramatic monologue
  2. Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
  3. Rhyme, rhythm and metre
  4. Critical appreciation of a poem
02Unit 2: Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poets 4 टॉपिक
  1. Chaucer: Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
  2. Shakespeare: Sonnets 18 and 116
  3. John Donne and the metaphysical poets
  4. John Milton: On His Blindness
03Unit 3: Neo-classical and Romantic Poetry 5 टॉपिक
  1. Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray
  2. William Wordsworth
  3. S.T. Coleridge
  4. P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
  5. John Keats: odes
04Unit 4: Victorian Poetry 3 टॉपिक
  1. Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
  2. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
  3. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
05Unit 5: Modern Poetry 4 टॉपिक
  1. W.B. Yeats
  2. T.S. Eliot
  3. Robert Frost
  4. Wilfred Owen and the war poets

परिचय

आप यह कर पाएँगे

  • 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

यह किसके लिए है

  • B.A Semester 2 students with English as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
  • Students preparing for TGT / PGT / UGC NET English

आपको क्या चाहिए

  • English Prose and Writing Skills (Semester 1) or good reading English

सवाल

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.

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