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.

Prayer

Lord,

Help me trust !!!
Those, who really care about me.
They might not be my friends, guardians, mentors or might not share a close relationship with me.
But,
They care nonetheless.

Save me from the delusions,
the confusion,
and, most importatly...
The diversions.

I come to You...

The all powerful!!
The Omnipresent, Omnipotent!
for the most humble surrender I can offer Lord.

With my shortcomings,
Any one may/may not,
but You will...
accept me!

I know :)

To Your shelter.

Hoping to stay...
Irrespective..
of my surrender.
within my own sweetness,
and within Your Mastery,
of all You've made.
Strong and firm,
Loving and not yet weak Lord.

This I seek in Your Name O Lord!

Amen!!!

© anu (Exploring Myself)