#1 Best Selling IGNOU BEGE-106 Help-Book & Study-Guide in IGNOU Marketplaces.
Get Good Marks in your BA English Programme in the Term-End Exams even if you are busy in your job or profession.
We've sold over 39,550,005 Help Books and Delivered 48,128,143 Assignments Since 2002.
As our customers will tell you...yes, it really result-oriented.
IGNOU BEGE-106 Code Details
-
University
IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
-
Title
Understanding Poetry
-
Language(s)
-
Code
BEGE-106
-
Subject
English
-
Degree(s)
BA
-
Course
Generic Electives (GE)
IGNOU BEGE-106 English Topics Covered
Block 1 - Early Modern English Poets
- Unit 1 - Why Read A Poem? And How to Study Understanding Poetry?
- Unit 2 - On Metre, Scansion and Prosody
- Unit 3 - William Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Unit 4 - John Milton
- Unit 5 - John Donne
- Unit 6 - Andrew Marvell
Block 2 - The Long Eighteenth Century
- Unit 1 - John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
- Unit 2 - Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man
- Unit 3 - Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes
- Unit 4 - Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Unit 5 - Appendix: Texts of Poems
Block 3 - The Romantic Poets
- Unit 1 - William Wordsworth
- Unit 2 - S. T. Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan'
- Unit 3 - Lord Byron
- Unit 4 - P. B. Shelley
- Unit 5 - John Keats
Block 4 - The Great Victorian Poets
- Unit 1 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Unit 2 - Robert Browning
- Unit 3 - Matthew Arnold
- Unit 4 - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Unit 5 - Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence
Block 5 - The High Modernist, Postmodernist and Recent Poets
- Unit 1 - William Butler Yeats
- Unit 2 - T. S. Eliot
- Unit 3 - Philip Larkin
- Unit 4 - Ted Hughes
- Unit 5 - Seamus Heaney
Block 6 - The American Poets-I
- Unit 1 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Unit 2 - Walt Whitman
- Unit 3 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Unit 4 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Unit 5 - Emily Dickinson
Block 7 - The American Poets-II
- Unit 1 - Robert Frost
- Unit 2 - William Carlos Williams
- Unit 3 - Wallace Stevens
- Unit 4 - Langston Hughes
- Unit 5 - Allen Ginsberg
Block 8 - Indian English Poets
- Unit 1 - Rabindranath Tagore and Sarojini Naidu
- Unit 2 - Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
- Unit 3 - A. K. Ramanujan and Jayant Mahapatra
- Unit 4 - Arun Kolatkar and Agha Shahid Ali
- Unit 5 - Dilip Chitre and Keki N. Daruwalla
IGNOU BEGE-106 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘To A SKYLARK’.
2. Comment on the theme of the poem ‘Intimations of Immortality’.
3. ‘Kubla Khan’ illustrates vividly what Coleridge meant when he called imagination a synthetic and magical power, a power which ‘instantly fuses chattered fragments of memory to produce a great poem Elaborate.
4. Attempt a critical appreciation of ‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ by Thomas Gray.
5. Explain with reference to the context the following lines:
1. We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
2. The young light-hearted masters of the waves
And snatch’d his rudder, and shook out more sail;
And day and night held on indignantly
O’er the blue Midland waters with the gale,
Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,
To where the Atlantic raves
Outside the western straits; and unbent sails
There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,
Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;
And on the beach undid his corded bales.
IGNOU BEGE-106 (July 2022 - January 2023) Assignment Questions
1. Write brief notes on the following:
a) Blank verse
b) Lyric
c) Assonance
d) Symbol
2. Critically appreciate the poem ‘To a Skylark.’
3. Comment on the use of irony by Indian English poets
4. Critically appreciate the poem ‘The Sunne Rising.’
5. Discuss the salient features on of mock-heroic poetry and illustrate your points with examples from The Rape of the Lock.
Buy BEGE-106 Assignment
BEGE-106 Previous Years Question Papers
