BA 2nd Year Elective English Paper-I
Paper I: Poetry
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to a variety of poetic forms, techniques and styles.
2. To develop students’ critical thinking skills and their ability to analyze and interpret poetry.
3. To foster an appreciation of poetry as a form of literary art.
Unit 1: The Romantic Period
1. William Wordsworth: “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”
3. John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias”
Unit 2: The Victorian Period
5. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses”
6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43”
7. Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”
8. Christina Rossetti: “Goblin Market”
Unit 3: The Modern Period
9. William Butler Yeats: “The Second Coming”
10. T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land”
11. Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
12. Sylvia Plath: “Daddy”
BA 2nd Year Elective English Paper-II
Paper II: Drama
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to the history and development of drama.
2. To develop students’ critical thinking skills and their ability to analyze and interpret drama.
3. To foster an appreciation of drama as a form of literary art.
Unit 1: Greek and Roman Drama
1. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
2. Aristophanes: The Birds
3. Plautus: The Twin Menaechmi
4. Seneca: Medea
Unit 2: Renaissance Drama
5. Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
6. William Shakespeare: Hamlet
7. Ben Jonson: Volpone
8. John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Unit 3: Modern Drama
9. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
10. Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
11. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
12. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
