1st Year | Poems for Reading Part C – 2021 Exam

Last selected poems that must be read for the final exam

Part C: All Things Formate.

Seen Poems From Syllabus:

  1. ✅ The Good morrow (I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I) By John Donne. Details.
  2. ✅ To Daffodils (Fair Daffodils, we weep to see) By Robert Herrick. ✔️ Details.
  3. ✅ I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud By William Wordsworth. Details.
  4. ✅ Ode To The West Wind (O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being) By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Details.
  5. ✅ Ulysses (It little profits that an idle king) By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Details.
  6. ✅ The Patriot (It was roses, roses, all the way) by Robert Browning. Details.
  7. ✅ Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!) By Walt Whitman. Details.
  8. ✅ Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson. Details.
  9. ✅ A Prayer for My Daughter (Once more the storm is howling, and half hid) by William Butler Yeats. Details.
  10. ✅ Piano (Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me) By D. H. Lawrence. Details.
  11. ✅ Pike (Pike, three inches long, perfect) By Ted Hughes. Details.
  12. ✅ Learning Grief (A study in contrast: at eight) By Kaiser Haq. Details.
  13. Home Burial (He saw her from the bottom of the stairs) By Robert Frost.
  14. 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.

  • 2010Shall 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.
  • 2016Where 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:

  1. ✅ Lullaby (Sweet and low, sweet and low) by Alfred Tennyson. Details.
  2. (2nd Year) She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth. Details.
  3. ✅ The Solitary Reaper (Behold her, single in the field) by William Wordsworth. Details.
  4. (2nd Year) London, 1802 (Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour) by William Wordsworth. Details.
  5. ✅ Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun By William Shakespeare. Details.
  6. ✅ Delight in Disorder (A sweet disorder in the dress) by Robert Herrick. Details.
  7. ✅ With rue my heart is laden by A.E. Housman. Details.
  8. Song: “Blow, blow, thou winter wind” by William Shakespeare.

  1. Break, Break, Break By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Details.
  2. Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee by John Donne. Details.
  3. No Second Troy (Why should I blame her that she filled my days) by William Butler Yeats. Details.
  4. Leda And The Swan (A sudden blow: the great wings beating still) By William Butler Yeats.

  1. (2nd Year) The Tyger (Tyger Tyger, burning bright) By William Blake. Ans with G drive
  2. (2nd Year) London (I wander thro’ each charter’d street) By William Blake. Details.
  3. (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.