Course Contents

Unit 1Jane Eyre – By Charlotte Bronte 1.1. Introduction of the Text Unit 2Humorous essays 2.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self Reliance 2.2. E.B. White- Once more to the Lake 2.3. The importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 2.4. Katherine Porter- Rope Unit 3Short stories 3.1. Fay Weldon-Weekend 3.2. Charlotte Gilman-The Yellow Wallpaper 3.3. The String-By Guy De Paussant 3.4. The Gift of the Magi-O Henry Unit 4Selection of Poems from Anthology of English Versus 4.1. Rudyard Kipling-if 4.2. Robert Frost-Stopping By Woods on a snowy Evening 4.3. William Wordsworth-Lucy 4.4. John Milton-On His Blindness 4.5. Yeats-When you are old 4.6. Adrienne Rich-Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 4.7. Byron-There is a pleasure in the Pathless woods 4.8. Elizabeth Browning-How do I Love Thee? 4.9. John Keats-You say you Love But with a voice

Course Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:  Develop a critical analysis based on the contextual knowledge.  Understand the connections between texts and the way events are being arranged.  Learn the tone and mood specifically the structure of texts.  Explore coherence that would be effective and common stylistic and thematic ground as well.