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Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Minor/ Elective- Theory) Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: Indian English Poetry and Drama (Minor/ Elective - Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Theory + 2 Practical Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction and Poetry * A brief introduction to Indian English Poetry * Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: Harp of India * Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Canto I) Keywords: Indian English Poetry, Cultural Values, Indian knowledge tradition and philosophy, Indian mythology, Nationalism, Patriotism Unit II Indian English Poetry * AK Ramanujan: The Obituary, A River * Kamala Das: The Old Playhouse, The Dance of the Eunuchs Keywords: Hindu traditions and culture, Cultural diversity in India, Regionalism, Feminist sensibilities and patriarchy Unit III Introduction to Indian English Drama * A brief introduction to Indian Engli

Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Major Paper II- Theory) Group- A Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: Indian Diaspora Literature (Major Paper II- Theory)- Group- A Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction * A Brief Introduction to Indian Diaspora Literature * VS Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) * Kamala Markandya: The Nowhere Man (1972) Keywords: Diaspora Conditions and Sensibilities, Role of memory, Quest for identity, Racial discrimination Unit II Fiction * Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence (1988) * Bharati Mukherjee: The Holder of the World (1993) Keywords: Cultural displacement, Migration, Alienation, Modern woman Unit III Fiction * Chitra Banerjee: Sister of My Heart (1999) * Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger ( 2008) Keywords: Keywords: Minority community, Exile, Tra

Syllabus of B.A. III Year: English Literature (Major Paper I- Theory) Group- A Program: Degree; Class: B.A. III Year; Session: 2023-24 onwards Class: B.A. III Year Course Title: English Language: Structure and Translation (Major Paper I- Theory)- Group- A Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Linguistics: * Definition, Functions, Characteristics and Development of English Language * Approaches to the study of Language- Synchronic and Diachronic Keywords: Grammar Theories, Language and Society Unit II Major Concepts of Linguistics: * Phonology and Morphology * Word Accent, Rhythms, Syllables and Syllable Counting Keywords: Vowels and Consonants, Acoustic property of speech sounds, Phonemes, Phonetics, Morphemes, Allomorphs, Allophones. Unit III Ambiguities and Translation: * Ambiguities in Language: Structural and Semantic * Translation: Eleme

Syllabus of BA II Year: English Literature- Major Paper II/ Minor/Optional (Theory) Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major II/ Minor/Optional Course Title: Study of Fiction (Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT2T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 35 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Forms of Early Fiction 1.1 Fiction and its types 1.2 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 1.3 Samuel Richardson: Pamela 1.4 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Keywords/Tags: Elements of novel, Augustan Age, Age of enlightenment, Literary trends in eighteenth century, Impact of Renaissance, Epistolary novel, Narrative technique, Picaresque novel, Romanticism, French revolution.) UNIT II 2

Syllabus of BA II Year: English Literature Major Paper I (Theory) - Major I Class: BA II Year (Session 2022-23 onwards) Program: Diploma Course Subject: English Literature (Theory) - Major I Course Title: Study of Prose (Paper 1, Theory) Course Code: A2-ELIT1T Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 Total Marks: 30+ 70=100; Minimum Pass Marks: 35 Written Exam: 70 Marks (Section A: Objective; Section B: Short Questions; Section C: Long Questions) CCE: 10+10+10= 30 (There shall be 4 class tests of 10 marks each, out of which the three best scores are to be taken into account.) **** UNIT- I 1. Early Prose Writers 1.1 Prose and its forms 1.2 Michel de Montaigne: On Sorrow (Translated by Charles Cotton) 1.3 Francis Bacon: Of Studies, Of Truth 1.4 Oliver Goldsmith: The Man in Black (Keywords/Tags: Elizabethan Age, Aphoristic Essay, Satire, Brevity, Idiomatic Language,Ornamental Prose.) UNIT II 2. Eighteenth/ Nineteenth Century Prose 2.1 Joseph Addison: The Spectator's Account of Himself

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Minor- Theory )- Minor (गौण) Program: Certificate Course; Class: B.A.I Year; Session: 2021-22 Class: B.A. I Year Course Title: Study of Poetry (Minor- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Literature and its classification- Poetry from Chaucer to Milton: 1.1 Figures of Speech; Definition of Poetry according to the Poets discussed in this paper; Different ages with different socio-economic and political backgrounds; Literary Terminology. 1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, The Pardoner (from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales) 1.3 John Donne: Death Be Not Proud 1.4 John Milton: On His Blindness Keywords/Tags: Figurative language, Extended metaphor, Hyperbole, Imagery, Iambic pentameter, Foot line, Narrative poetry Metaphysical poetry, Puritan era. Unit II 2. Poetry in Neoclassical and Rom

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Major Paper II- Theory )- Major/Main (मुख्य) Program: Certificate Course; Class: B.A.I Year; Session: 2021-22 Class: B.A. I Year Course Title: Study of Poetry (Paper II- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Introduction to Literature and its classification- Poetry from Chaucer to Milton: 1.1 Figures of Speech; Definition of Poetry according to the Poets discussed in this paper; Different ages with different socio-economic and political backgrounds; Literary Terminology. 1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, The Pardoner (from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales) 1.3 John Donne: Death Be Not Proud 1.4 John Milton: On His Blindness Keywords/Tags: Figurative language, Extended metaphor, Hyperbole, Imagery, Iambic pentameter, Foot line, Narrative poetry Metaphysical poetry, Puritan era. Unit II 2. Poetry in N

Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Major Paper I- Theory) - Major/Main (मुख्य) Program: Certificate Course  Class: B.A. I Year; Session: 2021-22 onwards Course Title: Study of Drama (Paper I- Theory) Course Type: Core Course Credit Value: 4 (Theory) + 2 (Practical) Total Marks: Max. Marks: 30+70; Min. Passing Marks: 35 Content of the Course Unit I Classical Drama: 1.1 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex – Story Keywords: Sanskrit theatre, Rasa theory, Classical tragedy, Greek tragedy, Greek theatre, Trilogy, Plot structure, Oedipus complex, Electra complex, Epic theatre. Unit II Renaissance Drama: 2.1 Christopher Marlow: Dr. Faustus 2.2 William Shakespeare: Tragedy in The Merchant of Venice Keywords: Renaissance, Characteristics of literary renaissance, Elizabethan drama, Elizabethan comedy, Morality plays, Elizabethan Tragedy, Catharsis. Unit III Restoration Drama: 3.1 John Dryden: All for Love Keywords: Restoration drama, Restoration comedy, Comedy of manner Heroic

Syllabus of UG III Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Degree)(Session 2023-24 onwards) Class: UG III Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Communication Skills Course Code: X3-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Reading, Writing and interpretation Skills( Text Based): 1. The Express – Stephen Spender 2. The World is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth 3. My Financial Career – Stephen Leacock 4. Running for Governor – Mark Twain UNIT II Essay Writing- Topical Essays: Terrorism, Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the Modern World, The Role of Women in the New Era,The Global World UNIT III (a) Communicative Skills:Words often Confused, Misused, Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs, etc. (b) Essential Conversations: Int

Syllabus of UG II Year (BA/ BSc/ BCom): Foundation Course (English) Program: UG Level (Session 2022-23 onwards) Class: UG II Year (BA/BSc/BCom) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Title: English Language and Foundation Course Code: X2-FCHB1T Course Type: Foundation Course (Theory) Credit Value: 2 Total Marks: 50; Minimum Pass Marks: 17 Written Exam: 50 Marks; Time 02 Hours (50 multiple choice/ objective/ true- false type questions to be asked. Each question carries 01 mark.) UNIT- I Text interpretation Skills: 1. Daffodils - Wordsworth 2. Bangle Sellers - Sarojini Naidu 3. Patriotism Beyond Politics and Religion - APJ Kalam 4. Letter to God - G.L. Swanteh (Translated by Donald Yates) 5. God Sees the Truth but Waits - Leo Tolstoy UNIT II Comprehension Skills: Multiple choice questions based on unseen passages. UNIT III Language Skills: Use of idioms, phrases and punctuation, Mis-Spelt and Inappropriate Words and Cloze Test, Conjunctions, Re-organizing jumbled sentences, Spotting

Syllabus of UG I Year ( B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com. ) : Foundation Course (English ) A. Program: UG Level; Year: 2021-22; Session: 2021 Onwards Class: UG I Year (B.A./ B.Sc./ B.Com.) Subject: Foundation Course (English) Course Code: X1 –FCHB 1T Course Title: English Language and Indian Culture Course Type: Foundation Course Credit Value: 2 credits; Total Marks: 50; Pass Marks: 17 Note: This Course will be studied by all the students of UG level under the foundation course Category. Content of the Course Unit I Reading, Writing and Interpretation Skills: 1. Where the Mind is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore [Key Word: Patriotism] 2. National Education – M.K. Gandhi [Key Word: Edification] 3. The Axe – R.K. Narayan [Key Word: Environment] 4. The Wonder that was India – A.L. Basham (an excerpt) [Key Word: Indianness] 5. Preface to the Mahabharata – C. Rajgopalachari [Key Word: Indian Mythology] Unit II Comprehension Skill Unseen Passage followed by multiple choice questions

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper -IV (American Literature) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Prose) Emerson: American Scholar Thoreau: Civil Disobedience UNIT- III (Poetry) Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World. Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting UNIT- IV (Drama) Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Edward Albee: The Zoo Story UNIT-V (Fiction) Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper -III (Indian Writings in English) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: Sarojini Naidu Kamala Das Note: All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy. UNIT- III M.R. Anand: Untouchable R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher UNIT- IV Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra ( Book I) Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan) UNIT-V Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper - II (English Language) UNIT-I Morphology: Morpheme, Allomorph, Word Formation UNIT-II: Linguistic Analysis: I.C. Analysis and Ambiguities UNIT- III Phonology: Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation. UNIT- IV Grammar: Sentence types and their transformation relations: (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative UNIT-V Grammar: Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials,, Determiners, Article Features, Concord.

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- IV) – 2024 Paper - I (Critical Theory) UNIT-I Anand Vardhan: Dhwani Theory Ferdinand Saussure: The Nature of Linguistic Sign UNIT-II: I.A. Richards: Two Uses of Language J.C. Ransom: Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry UNIT- III F.R. Leavis: Literary Criticism and Philosophy J. Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences UNIT- IV Edward Said: Crisis ( The Scope of Orientalism) Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism UNIT-V Practical Criticism: It will contain two passages; One in verse and the other in prose for practical criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical Approaches'.

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - IV (Prose) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson ( From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11) Addison: Choice of Hercules, Uses of the Spectators Note: In P.G. College Satna - Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home UNIT- III Goldsmith: The Man in Black Charles Lamb: New Year's Eve, A Bachelor's Complaint against the Behavior of Married People UNIT- IV A. G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasure of Ignorance, I Tremble to think UNIT-V G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport Hilaire Belloc: On Books, On Preserving English

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - III (Fiction) UNIT-I (19th Century Fiction) Flaubert: Madame Bovary George Meredith: The Egoist UNIT-II: (Rural Novel) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles Premchand : Godan UNIT- III (Psychological Novel) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers UNIT- IV (Naturalist Novel) Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea UNIT-V (Post Naturalist Novel) William Golding: Lord of the Flies Saul Bellow: Herzog

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - II (Drama) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Restoration Drama) John Dryden: All for Love Congreve: The Way of the World UNIT- III (Victorian Drama) G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman Galsworthy: Justice UNIT- IV (Modern Drama) Ibsen: A Doll's House Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children UNIT-V (Indian Drama) Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain Mahesh Dattani: Tara

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- II) – 2024 Paper - I (Poetry) UNIT-I (Pre Romantic Poetry) Thomas Gray: The Bard, The Progress of Poesy William Blake: On Another Sorrow, From 'Auguries of Innocence', The Poison Tree UNIT-II: (Romantic Poetry) W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. P.B. Shelley: Adonais John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn UNIT- III (Victorian Poetry) Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lotus Eaters Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis, The Scholar Gipsy UNIT- IV (Symbolist Poetry) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium UNIT-V (Modern Poetry) W.H. Auden: Strange Meeting, The Shield of Achilles Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- I) – 2024 Paper -IV (Prose) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Biography and Autobiography) J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter) Kamala Das: My Story (Fourth Chapter) UNIT- III (Political and Social Writings) Plato: The Republic, Book II (First Four Chapters) Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love UNIT- IV (Philosophical Writing) J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society 2. Action and Idea 3. What is Self ? 4. What are We Seeking? Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture UNIT-V Bertrand Russell: True Success William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned 2. The Indian Jugglers.

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- I) – 2024 Paper -III (Fiction) UNIT-I ( Early Prose Narrative) Bana Bhatt: Kadambari Cervantes: Don Quixote UNIT-II: (Picaresque Novel) Henry Fielding: Tom Jones Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe UNIT- III (Historical Novel) Walter Scott: Kenilworth Thackeray: Henry Esmond UNIT- IV (Fiction by Women) George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre UNIT-V (19th Century Realistic Novel) Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Zola: Nana

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- I) – 2024 Paper - II (Drama) UNIT- I Annotations UNIT-II: (Non-English Drama) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Kalidas: Abhigyan Shakuntalam (English Translation, Sahitya Academy) UNIT- III (Shakespearean Tragedy) Hamlet King Lear UNIT- IV (Other Shakespearean Plays) Twelfth Night The Tempest UNIT-V (Renaissance Drama: Non Shakespearean) Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- I) – 2024 Paper - I (Poetry) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Epic Poetry) John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I Valmiki: The Ramayana (Sundar Kand) UNIT- III (Narrative Poetry) Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner UNIT- IV (Renaissance Poetry) William Shakespeare: Sonnets No.- 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44. John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow, Love's Alchemy, The Canonization, The Anniversarie. UNIT-V (Satirical Poetry) John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- III) – 2024 Paper - IV (American Literature) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II: (Prose) Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul UNIT- III (Poetry) Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Song of Myself : Grass, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed, I Celebrate Myself. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking, Birches, The Road not Taken. UNIT- IV (Drama) Eugene O' Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra Note: In Govt. P.G. College Satna: Hairy Ape UNIT-V (Fiction) Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- III) – 2024 Paper - III (Indian Writings in English) UNIT-I Annotations UNIT-II Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Book I- Canto I) Tagore: Geetanjali (Poems- 1 to 10), McMillan Edition UNIT- III APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire UNIT- IV Asif Currimbhoy: Valley of Assassins Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit UNIT-V Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock Arun Joshi: The City and the River

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- III) – 2024 Paper - II (English Language) UNIT-I Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language. UNIT-II Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic and Diachronic UNIT- III Definition of Phonetics and Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology, Organs of Speech UNIT- IV Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP UNIT-V Basics of Transformational Generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics

Syllabus of M.A. English (Semester- III) - 2024 Paper - I (Critical Theory) UNIT-I Natyashastra- Rasa Theory Aristotle: Poetics (Butcher's Translation) UNIT-II Longinus: On the Sublime Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry UNIT- III John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy Dr. Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare UNIT- IV Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIII & XIV) UNIT-V Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (Second Series) T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent

The Bee Meeting Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers—— The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees. In my sleeveless summery dress I have no protection, And they are all gloved and covered, why did nobody tell me? They are smiling and taking out veils tacked to ancient hats. I am nude as a chicken neck, does nobody love me? Yes, here is the secretary of bees with her white shop smock, Buttoning the cuffs at my wrists and the slit from my neck to my knees. Now I am milkweed silk, the bees will not notice. They will not smell my fear, my fear, my fear. Which is the rector now, is it that man in black? Which is the midwife, is that her blue coat? Everybody is nodding a square black head, they are knights in visors, Breastplates of cheesecloth knotted under the armpits. Their smiles and their voces are changing. I am led through a beanfield. Strips of tinfoil winking like people, Feather dusters fanning their hands in a

Lady Lazarus I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—— A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?—— The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot—— The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sti

Daddy You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du. In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common. My Polack friend Says there are a dozen or two. So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak. I thought every German was you. And the language obscene An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. I began to talk like a Jew. I think

This is my letter to the World This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me— The simple News that Nature told— With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see— For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen— Judge tenderly—of Me

Of Mice and Men: A short Note John Steinbeck is a popular modern novelist of America. His Of Mice and Men is an impressive and interesting novel. It is set during the Great Depression. It's a tragic tale of two workers named George Milton and Lennie Small. It explores themes of loneliness, friendship and the American Dream. Of Mice and Men is a tale of the lives of George Milton and Lennie Small. They are itinerant ranch workers. They dream of owning their own small piece of land where they can raise rabbits. Their dream is a beacon of hope in their otherwise bleak existence. They wander from ranch to ranch in search of work to fulfill their dream. Their bond is a cornerstone of the story. The story unfolds on a California ranch where George and Lennie find new employment. George is a small but sharp-witted man. He cares deeply for Lennie. Lennie is a large but mentally challenged individual. He has immense strength. Lennie's childlike innocence often leads to trouble.