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Poetry

Course Code C0272 Th 3 Pr 3 CrHrs 6

The course runs through winter semester and summer semester starting from 1st of Sept.2021 and ending around the 30thof May 2022.

This course deals with different modern poems (British, American and worldwide are selected to represent different periods modern poetry passed through. The course is significant as it introduces the students to modern poets of the western countries and familiarize them with the thematic and structural elements of poetry of that period.  

Some of the most important objective of this course is first; to make the students able to identity the main dilemma of modern man as seen in the poetry of that period. Second to explore the relevant social and historical features of that period and the impact of these features of the literary products of the poets. Third, is to familiarize the students with the main poetic schools and moods of that period.

Distribution of Marks

Final Mark

Final Exam

Second Term

Mid-Year

First Term

100

Prac.

Theor.

Prac.

Theor.

Prac.

Theor.

Prac.

Theor.

 

60

 

5

 

30

 

5

References

SN

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani

1

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry by Rita Dove

2
  • Introduction to the Twentieth  Century
  • Introduction to the Modern Poetry
  • C S Lewis’s The Country of the Blind
  • W B Yeats: Life and Works
  • W B Yeats: Wild Swan at Coole
  • W B Yeats: Sailing to
  • Byzantium
  • Robert Frost: Stopping by Wood
  • Robert Frost: Design
  • Ernest Hemingway: I like the Canadians 
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: I’m Too Much Alone
  • György Petri- Night Song of the Personal Shadow
  • Pablo Neruda: Here I Love You
  • Fernando Pessoas: The Herdsman
  • Ernest Henly’s The Invictus
  • Gloria Anzaldua’s To Live the Borderland
  • T S Eliot’s The Hollow Men
  • Revision