Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Minor- Theory & Practical)

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 Romantic Age:
2.1 Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock - Canto III
2.2 William Wordsworth: Solitary Reaper, Daffodils
2.3 John Keats: Ode to Autumn
Keywords/Tags: Nature poet, Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, Spontaneity, Lyrical Ballads, Fancy and Imagination, Supernatural poetry, Revolutionary poets, Sensuousness, Hellenism, Negative capability, Aesthetic beauty.
Unit III
3. Poetry in Victorian Age:
3.1 Alfred Lord Tennyson: Break Break Break
3.2 Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together
3.3 Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
Keywords/Tags: Victorian age, Industrial revolution, Victorian society, Autobiographical note, Tennyson and Clough, Dramatic monologue, Pastoral elegy, Oxford movement, Campus Poetry.
Unit IV
4. Indian Poetry:
4.1. Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree; Sita
4.2. Sarojini Naidu: Indian Weavers
4.3. Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali Song No. 1&2
Keywords/Tags: Indo-Anglican poetry, Simile and Metaphor, Spirituality, Poetry of Indian Independence, Indian theme, Mysticism, Spiritualism, Indian Mythological Characters.
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Syllabus of B.A. I Year: English Literature (Minor- Practical)- Minor (गौण)
Program: Certificate Course; Class: B.A. I Year; Session: 2021-22
Class: B.A. I Year
Course Title: Applied Poetry (Minor- Practical)
Course Type: Core Course
Credit Value: 2
Content of the Course
Unit I
1. American Poetry:
1.1 Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!
1.2 Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Keywords/Tags: Modern poetry, WWI, Imagination and Reality, War poetry, Symbolist movement, Patriotic poetry, WWII, The Holocaust, Confessional poetry.
Unit II
2. British and Indian Poetry:
2.1 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 (Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds)
2.2 PB Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
2.3 Guru Nanak Dev: The Sky is Your Platter
Keywords/Tags: Romanticism, Revolutionary Spirit, Impact of the French revolution, Lord Byron, Disillusionment, Irish literary revival.
Unit III
3. Applied Poetry: Problems and Prospects
3.1 Creating Poetry, Problems in Writing Poetry, Parameters of Poetry, Imagination and other Contemporary Issues.
3.2 Subjectivity, Objectivity, Negativity, Resilience
3.3 Language, Vocabulary and Other Essential Elements.
Keywords/Tags: Meter, Rhyme scheme, Regular rhythm, Word sounds, Allegory, Shape, Mood, Stanza.
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