SEMESTER IV
READING POETRY
COURSE CODE 4 B 05 ENG
READING POETRY
COURSE CODE 4 B 05 ENG
MODULE 1: BASIC ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Students may be introduced to the following terms:
What is poetry? Prosody—Rhythm, Meter, Rhyme, Diction -
Figures of
Speech: Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Imagery, Symbolism,
Alliteration,
Assonance and such figures - Forms and Genres: Ballad,
Lyric, Ode, Sonnet,
Elegy, Satire, Pastoral, Parody, Pastiche, Haiku, Limerick,
Ghazal, Pantoum,
Jintishi, Sestina, Ruba'I, Sijo - Narrative Poetry, Dramatic
Poetry, Prose
Poetry.
Module II
Section A
1. Geoffrey Chaucer :First 18 lines from the Prologue
2. William Shakespeare
:The Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)
3. John Donne : AValediction: Forbidding Mourning
4. Alexander Pope
:From An Essay on Man (“Know then
thyself . . . . . . riddle of the World”)
5. William Wordsworth
:Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
6. Robert Browning :
My Last Duchess
Section B (For
Assignment and Seminar only)
1. Andrew Marvell
:To His Coy Mistress
2. John Milton :On
His Blindness
3. William Blake
:The Tiger
4. P.B. Shelley :To
A Skylark
5. Alfred Tennyson :
Ulysses
Module III
Section A
1. T.S.Eliot
:Journey of the Magi
2. Emily Dickinson
:After Great Pain
3. Kathe Walker :WeAre Going
4. A.K.Ramanujan
:Obituary
5. R.Viswanathan :
Cliché (From Petals and Patches)
6. E.V.Ramakrishnan
: Alzheimer’s Day
Section B (For Assignment and Seminar only)
1. Philip Larkin
:Next, Please
2. Robert Frost
:Stopping By Woods
3. Langston Hughes
:I, Too, Sing America
4. Sarojini Naidu
:Coramandel Fishers
Module IV
Section A
1. Yvonne Legge :Agent Orange Knife
2. Judith Wright :
Request to a Year
3. Sujata Bhatt :
Search for My Tongue
4. Gieve Patel
:Killing a Tree
Section B (For Assignment and Seminar only)
1. Maya
Angelou :Phenomenal Woman
2. Seamus
Heaney :Digging
3. Imogen
Grosberg :See Off the Shine
4. Thomas
Kinsella :Traveller or Remembering Old
Wars
REFERENCE:
B. Prasad. A Background to the Study of English Literature.
Rev. Ed. 3. Delhi:
Macmillan. 2008. (Module 1)
Peck, John and Coyle, Martin, Practical Criticism: How to
Write a Critical
Appreciation. London: Macmillan, 1995 (Chapters 2 to 9,
Pages 14 to 120)
Abrams, M H. Glossary of Literary Terms, latest edition.
Jeffrey Wainwright. Poetry: The Basics. London: Routledge.
2004.
Bernard Blackstone. Practical English Prosody. Mumbai:
Longman. 2003
Thaker, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry. Hyderabad:
Longman. 1999
(Module II, III and IV have two sections each. In each
module, the poems listed under section
A is intended for detailed study (end semester examination)
and the poems under Section B
is intended for assignment, seminar presentation and such
activities. Both in class room
discussion and in assignment, students have to be encouraged
to make use of the new
reading strategies learned in the preceding semesters.)
4. POEMS FOR FURTHER READING
(1) William Blake :
London (2) Suheir Hammad : 4.02
p.m. (3) Mahmoud Darwish : Psalm Three (4) Joseph Brodsky : Bosnia Tune (5) Jeanette Armstrong : Death Mummer (6) Daya Pawar : The City (7) Sylvia Plath : Daddy
(8) R. S. Thomas : Song for
Gwydion (9) Paul Celan : Speak, You
Also (10) Elizabeth Bishop : One Art
(11) Meena Kandasamy : Ekalaivan (12) Federico García Lorca : The Little Mute Boy (13) Arthur Rimbaud : Vowels
