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Reading Poetry (Web)
Syllabus
Co-ordinated by :
IIT Madras
Available from :
2015-07-06
Lec :
1
Modules / Lectures
Some basic tools required to read poetry
Introduction: William Carlos Williams, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’
Perception: William Wordsworth, ‘The Daffodils’
Paradox: Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken’
Symbolism: Emily Dickinson, ‘A Narrow Fellow in the Grass’
Imagery: Agha Shahid Ali, ‘Postcard from Kashmir’
Schools of thought
The Elizabethans: Christopher Marlowe, ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’
The Romantics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’
The Victorians: Matthew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’
Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’
Modernism: T.S. Eliot, ‘Preludes’
Confessional Poetry: Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’
The Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg, ‘A Supermarket in California’
Feminism: Adrienne Rich, ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’
Gay and Lesbian Poetry: Agha Shahid Ali, ‘The Correspondent’
Postcolonialism: Agha Shahid Ali, ‘The Dacca Gauzes’
Forms of Poetry
The Sonnet: John Keats, ‘When I have Fears’
The Ode: Auden, ‘Ode to the Medieval Poets’
The Villanelle: Elizabeth Bishop, ‘One Art’
The Ghazal: Agha Shahid Ali, ‘Arabic’
Experimental verse: Grasshopper
Post-modernism
‘Beyond the Ash Rains’
‘And the City Stood in its Brightness’
‘The Emperor of Ice Cream’
‘The Country without a Post Office’
‘Farewell’
‘Sweet like a Crow’
‘A History of Paisley’
‘I know Why the Caged Bird Sings’
Denise Levertov, ‘The Sharks’
‘Notes on the Sea’s Existence’
‘This is a Photograph of Me’
‘Punishment in Kindergarten’
‘Leaving Sonora’
Contemporary poetry
‘Base’
‘Anne Hathaway’
‘On the Origins of Things’
‘From a Journal’
‘All Days Lost Days’
‘Two Countries’
Conclusion
Agha Shahid Ali, ‘The Veiled Suite’
Concluding Remarks
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