Monday, February 1, 2010

Back to some serious work

Hm.... I did what I was craving for.... logging into my various profiles, doing what I thought, I was missing, and reading and pondering on different things.... And realized.... I need to work now. For various reasons, about which I'll think some other day.

Right now..... To work.

Here's the syllabus to be covered:

Poetry:
  • Chaucer - From Prologue to the Canterbury tales
  • Donne - The Flea, The Good morrow, A Valediction,: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnet: Batter my heart, Canonization.
  • Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
  • Herbert - Affliction, The Collar
  • Milton - Paradise Lost - Book 1 and 2
  • Dryden - Absalom and Acitophel
  • Pope - Rape of the lock
  • William Cowper - Castaway
  • Wordsworth - Ode to Immortality, Tintern Abbey
  • Coleridge - Dejection:an Ode, Kubla Khan
  • Byron - The vision of Judgement
  • Shelley - Ode to The west wind, Stanzas written in Dejection, Ozymandias
  • Keats - Odes to : - nightingale, grecian urn, autumn, psyche, indolence, melancholy.
Prose :
  • Bacon's Essays : - Of Truth, ADversity, love, envy, marriage and single life, simulation ad dissimulation, revenge
  • Addison:- The Tombs in westminster Abbey, Sunday in the Country, The Exercise of the Fan.
  • Swift : - Battle of Books
  • Hazlitt:- Indian Jugglers, On familiar Style, On the fear of Death.
  • John Ruskin : -Unto the Last
  • Mill:- On Libety
  • Defoe - Moll Flanders
  • Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Jane Austen-Mansfield Park
  • Thackeray - Vanity Fair
  • Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
  • G.Eliot - Middlemarch
Drama:
  • Shakespeare - King Lear, Julius Ceaser
  • Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
  • Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
  • Congreve - The Way of The World
  • Sheridan - The Rivals
  • Shaw - St. Joan
  • Oscar Wilde - The importance of being Earnest
  • Eliot - Murder in The Cathedral
  • Osborne - Look Back in Anger
Grammar:
  • Determiners
  • Tense, Aspect, Voice
  • One word substitutions
  • Synonyms, Homonyms, Antonyms
  • Phrasal Verbs
  • Idioms
  • Concepts and Notions
  • Comprehension
  • Precis Writing
  • Report Writing
  • Letter Writing - Business, Formal, Informal, Art of Public Speaking, Personality Development
  • Literary Appreciation
  • Writing for Radio, TV, Mass and Print Media

Now...... This is what I have to study and I have supposedly 30 days flat (Date sheet will come in a week-15 days). Now, I will start posting, as I keep covering the topics.


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