Introduction to Literature-II (Poetry and One Act Plays) | Eureka Study Aids

1. POETRY
(i) Sonnet

• On His Blindness (Milton)
• The Silken Tent (Robert Frost) 

(ii) Song

• When I am Dead. My Dearest (Christina Rossetti)
• Go and Catch a Falling Star (John Donne) 

(iii) Dramatic Monologue

• My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) 
• Ulysses (Alfred Tennyson) 

(iv) Elegy

• Elegy Written in a Country Churhyard (Thomas Gray) 
• A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (Dylan Thomas) 
• For a Child Born Dead (Elizabeth Jennings) 

(v) Ballad

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci (John Keats)
• O What is That Sound (W.H. Auden) 

(vi) Ode

• Ode to the West Wind (Percy B. Shelley) 
• Ode to Autumn (John Keats) 
• For Heidi with Blue Hair (Fleur Adcock) 

(vii) Free Verse

• Red Wheel Barrow (William Carlos Williams) 

(viii) Epic

• Paradise Lost Lines 1-123 (John Milton) 
• Rape of the Lock Canto-1 (Alexander Pope) 

2. DRAMA
(i) The Rising of the Moon (Lady Gregory)
(ii) The Sandbox (Edward Albee)