Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Examine the significance of twentieth century schools of thought in poetry and drama
  2. Value the literary expression of the spiritual anxiety and existential crisis
  3. Argue and defend the literary techniques and style of twentieth century literature
  4. Display an understanding of the style of the iconic poets, illustrated through the detailed definitions of various poetic devices
  5. Apply the styles and concerns of 20th century poets in creative pouring

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

12.00

Dylan Thomas                                              

Fern Hill

A Refusal to Mourn the Death

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

After the Funeral

 

 

 

13.00

W.H. Auden                                                  

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

September 1, 1939

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Lay Your Sleeping…

 

 

 

13.00

T.S. Eliot 

The Cocktail Party

 

 

 

11.00

D.H.Lawrence                                              

Snake

Piano

Trees in the Garden

The Mess of Love

Last Lesson of the Afternoon

 

 

 

11.00

Sean O’ Casey                                              

Juno and the Paycock

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Ed. WW Norton, 1983.

 

Suggested Readings:

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed. Heinle, 1999.

Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. Chatto & Windus, 1950.

Matthiessen, F.D.The Achievement of T.S. Eliot.OUP, 1958.

Saqar, Keith. The Art of D.H. Lawrence. CUP, 1996.

Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. CUP, 2005.

Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature.Methuen, 1965.

 

e-Resources :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEEujkM47M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTqcIIEQ9s

 

Journals :

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

The North American Review

 

Academic Year: