English Poetry (B.A English)

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

6 MonthsDuration 5Chapters20Topics

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01Unit 1: Forms and Devices of Poetry 4 topics
  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 topics
  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 topics
  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 topics
  1. Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
  2. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
  3. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
05Unit 5: Modern Poetry 4 topics
  1. W.B. Yeats
  2. T.S. Eliot
  3. Robert Frost
  4. Wilfred Owen and the war poets

About

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

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.

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