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imagination and experience.
● To appreciate reading as a social experience.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completing the course students will:
● Be able to appreciate poems aesthetically.
● Engage in close analysis and understand the literary devices that enhance the beauty
of the poem.
● Learn to consider literature as a communal experience.
● To inculcate a deeper admiration of the cultural diversity expressed in the poems.
● Be familiar with how literature reveals the human condition through its various
strategies.
COURSE DETAILS:
BLOCK 1: Introducing Literary Texts: 1
Unit 1: O Henry: “The Last Leaf”
Unit 2: William Blake: “The Tyger”
Unit 3: Alfred Lord Tennyson: “The Oak”
Unit 4: Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”
Unit 5: Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not Stop for Death”
Unit 6: Baburao Bagul: “Why I hid My Caste”
BLOCK 2: Introducing Literary Texts: 2
Unit 1: Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”
Unit 2: Kamala Das: “Looking Glass”
Unit 3: Maya Angelou: “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
Unit 4: W. H. Auden: “Unknown Citizen”
Unit 5: Jayanta Mahapatra: “Hunger”
Unit 6: Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”
REFERENCES
Corcoran, Neil. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry, CUP, 2007
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