Major · 01/ENG/MJR/102T · 2026–27 intake

Poetry

Semester I · 6 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

Examination Scheme Maximum Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 120 Part- A (10x2=20 Marks) Two lines or quotes for explanation from prescribed poems. Remaining 08 questions (2 from each unit) are to be set from Unit 2, 3, 4 and 5. Answer to each question shall be limited up to 30 words. Each Question carries 01 mark. Part- B: (5x20=100 Marks) Unit 1: The Candidates shall attempt two references out of four. At least one reference should be set from each unit. (10 X 2= 20) Unit 2,3,4 and 5: Answer one out of two questions from each unit. Answer to these questions shall be limited to 500 words.

The Gifts of God appears without an author in the English Major table. CCW Poetry identifies Herbert, but do not silently treat the other programme as the authority.

Source prints The Tiger and the Dear; probable Deer title error requires primary-text confirmation.

Part A header says 10x2=20 but narrative says each question carries 01 mark. Reference allocation was apparently retained from a different unit structure.

Unit ISpenser, Shakespeare and Jonson

4 entries

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Spenser: A Wedding Song. Shakespeare: To His Love. Remembrance Ben Jonson: My Lady in Love’s Chariot

Source syllabus · page 54

Unit IIDonne, Milton and Collins

4 entries

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Donne: The Good Morrow. The Gifts of God. Milton: Paradise Lost. (Lines 1 – 126, Book I) Collins: Ode to Evening.

Source syllabus · page 54

Unit IIIGray and Indian English poetry

5 entries

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Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Henry L. Derozio: Harp of India Rabindranath Tagore: Heaven of Freedom Sarojini Naidu: Bangle Sellers, Village Song

Source syllabus · page 54

Unit IVJung, Dutt and Gosh

3 entries

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Nizamat Jung: Prologue Michael Madhusudan Dutt: King Porus: A Legend of Past Manmohan Gosh: Can It Be

Source syllabus · page 54

Unit VAurobindo and Isvaran

2 entries

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Sri Aurobindo: The Tiger and the Dear Manjeri S. Isvaran: Again

Source syllabus · page 54

Recommended readings in the source

  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth, 2009.
  • Alexander. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1971.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1982.
  • Hooper, A.G. An Introduction to English Language and Literature. London: Longman, 1961.
  • Lemon Lee, T. A Glossary for the Study of English. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.