Introduction to Poetry Suggestion For Part B & C
William Shakespeare – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
- Evaluate as a Sonnet
- Figure of Speech
- Imagery
John Milton – On His Blindness
- Evaluate as a Sonnet
- Figure of Speech
- Imagery
- Theme of Consolation
John Donne – The Good-Morrow
- Metaphysical Poetry
- The Good-Morrow as a Metaphysical Poem and Donne as a Metaphysical Poet
- Theme of Love
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Robert Herrick – To Daffodils
- Lyric Poem
- Comparison of Human life with Daffodils
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Elegy
- Evaluate this poem as an Elegy
- Glorification of Common Men by Gray
William Wordsworth – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Figure of Speech
- Treatment of Nature
P.B. Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
- Ode
- Optimism
- Optimism in this poem
- Imagery
John Keats - To Autumn
- Imagery
- Keats as a Poet of Sensuousness
Alfred Tennyson - Ulysses
- Dramatic Monologue
- Ulysses as a Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning – Patriot
- Patriot as a Dramatic Monologue
- Browning Shows the Tragic Fate of a Patriot – explain
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning – How Do I Love Thee
- As a Sonnet
- As a Love Poem
- Use of Imagery
Walt Whitman – Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Whitman as a Mystic poet
- Whteman as a poet of Democrac
Emily Dickenson – Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- Figures of Speech
William Butler Yeats – A Prayer for My Daughter
- Personal Elements in this poem
- Poet’s Prayer/desire for his daughter
Robert Frost – Home Burial
- Critical Appreciation
- Husband wife relationship
- Modern Elements in this poem
David Herbert Lawrence – The Piano
- Image of Childhood
- Justify the title
Dylan Thomas – Fern Hill
- Use of Imagery
- Theme of Childhood
Ted Hughes – Pike
- Use of Imagery
- Picture of Violence/Human Violence
Rabindranath Tagore – Where The Mind Is Without Fear (Gitanjali-35)
- Religious elements
- Present State of Poet’s Country
Kaiser Huq – Learning Grief
- Poet’s Reaction after his sister’s death
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