English syllabus - Gauhati University

53SEMESTER IIPAPER 2PoetryMarks 75 (60+15) [15 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 6(Internal Assessment may be in the form of one objective-type test of 10 marks and a homeassignment of 5 marks)Questions in this paper will be in three parts as given below.(A) Questions requiring essay type answers 12x4=48There will be six questions requiring essay type answers on different poets or groups of poets, eachcarrying 10 marks. Students will answer any five.(B) Explanations 5x4=20Six extracts from different poems prescribed for detailed study (* marked) will be given for explanationwith reference to the context. Students will be required to attempt any three.Poems Prescribed: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) : John Donne (1572-1631): John Milton (1608-74): William Wordsworth (1770-1850): S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834): P. B. Shelley (1792-1822): Lord Tennyson (1809-92): Matthew Arnold (1822-1888):Sonnets 19 & 20 (“Devouring Time, blunt thouthe lion’s paws” and “A Woman’s face withNature’s own hand painted”)Song (“Goe and Catch a falling starre”)On His BlindnessLines Written a Few Miles Above TinternAbbey*Dejection: An OdeOzymandias of EgyptUlyssesDover Beach* W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Second Coming * Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): W.H. Auden (1907-1973): D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Dylan Thomas (1914-53): Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): Ted Hughes (1930-1998):The Rear-GuardMarina*In Memory of W.B. YeatsSnake*Fern HillDaddyHawk Roosting(C) Prosody (metre, rhyme, stanza etc.) 2x6=12