Introduction to Poetry Suggestion For Part B & C

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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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