B.A. (II Semester)
ENGLISH
(English Poetry)

SYLLABUS

Unit-I  : Forms of Poetry

1. The Sonnet, 2. The Elegy, 3. The Ode, 4. The Epic
5. The Ballad, 6. The Lyric, 7. The Dramatic Monologue 8. Allegory.

Unit-II : Stanza Forms

1. The Heroic Couplet
2. Blank Verse
3. The Spenserian Stanza
4. Terza Rima.

Unit-III : Poetic Device

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

Unit-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 - *Presence in Absence
3. Alexander Pope - *Essay on Man.

Unit-V :

1. Thomas Gray-* Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. William Wordsworth The World is Too Much with Us 3. John Keats-* Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Unit-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- *My Last Duchess.

Unit-VII:

1. T.S. Eliot- *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. W.B. Yeats- *The Lake Isle of Innisfree
3. Philip Larkin- *Church Going.

Unit-VIII:

Rhetoric & Prosody
Practical Criticism
Introduction to Practical Criticism
One Stanza from Poetry for Practical Criticism.

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