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IGNOU BEGE-143 Code Details
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University
IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
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Title
Understanding Poetry
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Language(s)
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Code
BEGE-143
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Subject
English
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Degree(s)
BAG, BA (Honours), BAEGH
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Course
Discipline Specific Electives (DSE)
IGNOU BEGE-143 English Topics Covered
Block 1 - British Poetry
- Unit 1 - Poetry: An Introduction
- Unit 2 - Metaphysical Poets: John Donne and Andrew Marvell
- Unit 3 - Romantic Poets: Wordsworth and Coleridge
- Unit 4 - Victorian Poets: Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson
Block 2 - American Poetry
- Unit 1 - Robert Frost
- Unit 2 - William Carlos Williams
- Unit 3 - Wallace Stevens
- Unit 4 - Langston Hughes
Block 3 - Indian English Poetry
- Unit 1 - Nissim Ezekiel and Eunice de Souza
- Unit 2 - A.K. Ramanujan and Jayanta Mahapatra
- Unit 3 - Arun Kolatkar and Agha Shahid Ali
- Unit 4 - Dilip Chitre and Keki N. Daruwalla
Block 4 - Poetry from the Margins
- Unit 1 - Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
- Unit 2 - Nirmala Putul
- Unit 3 - Jyoti Lanjewar
- Unit 4 - Sukirtharani
IGNOU BEGE-143 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions
Section A
Write short notes in about 200 words each:
(i) metaphysical poems
(ii) modernism and poetry
Section B
Explain with reference to the context in 300 words each.
(i) Tell Flesh must fade for heaven and here!
Thus learnt she and lingered – joy and fear!
Thus lay she a moment on my breast.
(ii) You say
the beak that steals
The worm-ridden grain spread out to sun
is a pariah cow.
(iii) Like all good shepherd sees to it they do
He is free to play a flute all day.
As well fed tigers and fat sheep drink
from the same pond.
Section C
Answer the following questions in 800 words each:
1. Discuss ‘The Ruined Cottage’ as an example of poetic narrative.
2. Critically comment on Sukhirtharani’s feminism as reflected in her poetry.
3. Comment critically on the poems of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih.
4. Critically analyse the poem ‘Bequest’.
IGNOU BEGE-143 (July 2022 - January 2023) Assignment Questions
Section A
Write short notes in about 200 words each:
(i) Symbol of Chinar in Daruwalla’s poem
(ii) Metaphor of death in ‘Ode to Bombay’.
Section B
Explain with reference to the context in 300 words each.
(i) We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
(ii) A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
(iii) Today my son told me
That in the meadows,
At the edge of the heavy woods
In the distance, he saw
trees of white flowers.
Section C
Answer the following questions in 800 words each:
1. Discuss the structural elements in the poems ‘A Dead Baby’ and ‘A Widow’s Lament in Springtime.’
2. Kolatkar had deployed the form of the fable to comment on the political reality of India at the time. Discuss.
3. Analyse Jyoti Lanjewar’s poetry as the voice of protest.
4. Analyse the relationship between Santhal writing and nature from her poems you have read in your block.
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