BEGE-143 Understanding Poetry : Syllabus outline

 

Block-1 British Poetry

A View of the Metaphysical Trend

John Donne - The Canonization

Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress

 

Age of Romanticism

Wordsworth- The Ruined Cottage

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan

 

The Victorian Age

Transition from Romanticism to Victorian Thinking

 

Browning as the Poet of Dramatic Monologue - The Last Ride Together

Tennyson - Crossing the Bar

 

Block-2 American Poetry

Robert Frost - A Boundless Moment, After Apple Picking

Modernism in America

William Carlos Williams - A Widow’s Lament in Springtime, The Dead Baby

 

Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man, The Emperor of Ice Cream

 

Langston Hughes- The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Young Gal’s Blues

 

 

 

Block-3 Indian English Poetry

The Modernist Trend in Indian English Writing

Nissim Ezekiel - Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S

Bequest by Eunice de Souza

 

A.K. Ramanujan - On the Death of a Poem

Jayanta Mahapatra - A Rain of Rites

 

Arun Kolatkar - Ajamil and the Tigers

Agha Shahid Ali - Postcard from Kashmir

 

Dilip Chitre’s Poem - Ode to Bombay

Keki N. Daruwalla - Chinar

 

Block-4 Poetry from the Margins

Writing from the North-East

Welsh Missionaries, Soso Tham and Khasi Literature

The Shillong Poets and Indian English Poetry

 “The Colours of Truth”

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

 “The Ancient Rocks of Cherra”

 

The Santhals: An Introduction

Orality in Literature

Nirmala Putul’s Poetry

 “The Mountain Woman”: An Analysis

 “The Mountain Child”: An Analysis

Women and Dalit Writing

Dalit women and the Feminist Movement: Gopal Guru and Sharmila Rege

Marathi Dalit Poetry

Jyoti Lanjewar

 “Caves”: An analysis

 “Leadership”: An analysis

Dalit Women’s Writing from Tamil Nadu

Sukirtharani’s Poetry

 “Pariah God”: An Analysis

 “Untitled-II”: An Analysis

Sukirtharani: A Feminist Voice