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SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY

B.A. SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
GENERIC ELECTIVE (ENGLISH)

B21EG01GE
APPRECIATING LITERATURE

CREDITS: 2

OBJECTIVES:

● To kindle interest in reading literature.

● To help students to understand, learn from and enjoy literary texts, especially poetry.
● To enable the student to read and respond creatively, drawing on their own

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.”
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