English Poetry

Program Class: Certificate/ BA

Year: First

Semester: Second

Subject: English

Course Title: English Poetry

Course Learning Outcomes:

After completing this course, the students will be able to:

· Understand the basic terminology and practical elements of poetry

· Analyse the underlying meaning of a poem by using the elements of poetry

· Identify the representative poets and writers of 16th ,17th, 18th and 19th and 20th century          

· Identify the devices used by the poet, the mood, the atmosphere, the voice and stanza form & rhyme pattern and meter scheme.

· Comprehend the characteristic features of Metaphysical and the Neo- classical poetry.

· Reflect on human values as virtually mirrored in Thomas Gray’s poem.

· Understand the concept of nature as stated by the romantic poets in literature

· Understand the Conflict of Victorian age and literature of the Victorian poets.

· Understand the difference between reason and imagination, literature and revolution.

· Identify the trends in 20th century poetry of Eliot, Yeats and Larkin.

Credits: 6

Core Compulsory

Max. Marks: –25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 33

Unit

Topics

I

Forms of Poetry (Definition & Main features)

1. The Sonnet

2. The Elegy

3. The Ode

4. The Epic/

5. The Ballad

6. The Lyric

7. The Dramatic Monologue

8. Allegory

II

Stanza Forms

1. The Heroic Couplet

2. Blank Verse

3. The Spenserian Stanza

4. Terza Rima

III

Poetic Device

Structure; Tone; Theme; Rhythm; Rhyme Scheme, Kinds of Metre; Stressed & Unstressed Syllables; Figures of Speech; Irony; Inversion; Negative Capability; Juxtaposition.

IV

1.William Shakespeare – *Let Me Not to the Marriage of

True Minds (Sonnet No. 116)  Or

John Milton – *On His Blindness

2. John Donne – * A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

3. Alexander Pope – * Ode on Solitude

V

1. Thomas Gray- * Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

2. William Wordsworth-* The World is Too Much with Us

3. John Keats-* Ode to a Nightingale

VI

1.Alfred Lord Tennyson- *Break, Break, Break Or

 Elizabeth Barret Browning- *How Do I Love Thee?

2. Matthew Arnold- *Dover Beach

3. Robert Browning- * The Last Ride Together

VII

1. T.S. Eliot- * Son of Man (Chorus ix from the Rocks)

2. W.B. Yeats- *The Lake Isle of Innisfree

3. Philip Larkin- *Church Going

VIII

Rhetoric & Prosody

Practical Criticism

Introduction to Practical Criticism

One Stanza from Poetry for Practical Criticism