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Last selected poems that must be read for the final exam
Seen Poems From Syllabus:
- ✅ The Good morrow (I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I) By John Donne. Details.
- ✅ To Daffodils (Fair Daffodils, we weep to see) By Robert Herrick. ✔️ Details.
- ✅ I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud By William Wordsworth. Details.
- ✅ Ode To The West Wind (O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being) By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Details.
- ✅ Ulysses (It little profits that an idle king) By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Details.
- ✅ The Patriot (It was roses, roses, all the way) by Robert Browning. Details.
- ✅ Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!) By Walt Whitman. Details.
- ✅ Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson. Details.
- ✅ A Prayer for My Daughter (Once more the storm is howling, and half hid) by William Butler Yeats. Details.
- ✅ Piano (Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me) By D. H. Lawrence. Details.
- ✅ Pike (Pike, three inches long, perfect) By Ted Hughes. Details.
- ✅ Learning Grief (A study in contrast: at eight) By Kaiser Haq. Details.
- Home Burial (He saw her from the bottom of the stairs) By Robert Frost.
- Fern Hill (Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs) By Dylan Thomas.
Seen Extra:
The following poems have already appeared in previous (2010-2019) exams.
- 2010 – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare. Details.
- 2011 – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Whose woods these are I think I know.) by Robert Frost. Details.
- 2012 – How Do I Love Thee – (Sonnet 43) – By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Details.
- 2013 – Ozymandias (I met a traveller from an antique land) By Percy Bysshe Shelley. 2013. Details.
- 2015, 2019 – On His Blindness – When I consider …. light is spent (Sonnet 19) By John Milton. Details.
- 2016 – Where the mind is without fear (Gitanjali 35) By Rabindranath Tagore. Details.
- 2017 – Ode To Autumn (Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness) By John Keats.
- 2018 – Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (The curfew tolls the knell of parting day) By Thomas Gray.
- ❌2020 – Patriotism (Breathes there the man with soul so dead) By Walter Scott.
Unseen Poems:
- ✅ Lullaby (Sweet and low, sweet and low) by Alfred Tennyson. Details.
- ✅ (2nd Year) She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth. Details.
- ✅ The Solitary Reaper (Behold her, single in the field) by William Wordsworth. Details.
- ✅ (2nd Year) London, 1802 (Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour) by William Wordsworth. Details.
- ✅ Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun By William Shakespeare. Details.
- ✅ Delight in Disorder (A sweet disorder in the dress) by Robert Herrick. Details.
- ✅ With rue my heart is laden by A.E. Housman. Details.
- Song: “Blow, blow, thou winter wind” by William Shakespeare.
- Break, Break, Break By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Details.
- Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee by John Donne. Details.
- No Second Troy (Why should I blame her that she filled my days) by William Butler Yeats. Details.
- Leda And The Swan (A sudden blow: the great wings beating still) By William Butler Yeats.
- (2nd Year) The Tyger (Tyger Tyger, burning bright) By William Blake. Ans with G drive
- (2nd Year) London (I wander thro’ each charter’d street) By William Blake. Details.
- (3rd Year) The Sun Rising (Busy old fool, unruly sun) By John Donne. Ans with G drive
Need To Know These Necessary Things – All Questions
- Summary
- Central Theme
- Rhyme-Scheme
- Figure of Speech (Figures of speech লিখার সময় তা কবিতার লাইনে বের করতে হবে তার সংজ্ঞা দিতে হবে with example , কোন লাইনে কোন figures of speech ব্যবহার করা হইছে তা মেনশন করতে হবে .)
- Mood and Tone, Attitude (কবির subject matter এর উপর কেমন দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি, tone হলো কবি কেমন ভাবে তার অনুভূতি প্রকাশ করছে তা sad / melancholic /optimistic/ pessimistic / joyous হতে পারে)
- Poet Position & Authors Position
- Generic form ( কবিতা টা কি sonnet/lyric/ode তা লিখতে হবে – সংজ্ঞা এবং ফিচারস অবশ্যই লিখতে হবে)
- Describe the setting and the atmosphere of the poem
Melancholy = বিষাদ
atmosphere = বায়ুমণ্ডল
- কবি যদি নিজের অনুভূতি প্রকাশ করে তাহলে তা subjective হবে ( from 1st person point of view ) আর যদি অন্যের অনুভূতি narrator হিসাবে প্রকাশ করে তাহলে তা objective হবে (3rd person point of view )
- Subjective তখনি হয়, যখন কবিতার বিষয়বস্তু কবির ব্যক্তিগত বিষয়/ফিলিংস নিয়ে লেখা হয়।
- অপরদিকে Objective কবিতা তখনি হয় যখন কবি কোনো চিরন্তন (Eternal) বিষয়বস্তুকে কেন্দ্র করে লিখে থাকেন।
- Subjective & objective হলো author’s position. Subjective হলে “I “দেওয়া থাকবে কবিতার লাইনে
- Imagery/ symbols (কি কি প্রতিকী ব্যবহার করা হইছে যেমন Pike কবিতাতে পাইক একটা মাছ যেটাকে imagery হিসাবে ব্যবহার করছে তার সাথে এটা কে symbol হিসাবে ও ব্যবহার করা হইছে as a symbol of hostility. লিখার সময় তাদের সংজ্ঞা দিতে হবে কবিতার লাইন ও মেনশন করতে হবে
Time Management For Exam Room
Reading Skills: 4 hours
- Part A : Total = 5+20 = 25 Minutes
- 5 min read
- 10 Q X 2 M = 20 M
- Part B: Total = 5+65 = 65 Minutes
- 5 min read
- 5 Q X 12 M = 60 M
- Part C:Total = 10+130 = 140 Minutes
- 10 min read
- 5 Q X 26 M = 130 M
The rest of the 10 Minutes will be used for revision.