SLST English (XI-XII)

Poetry

Sidney: Loving in Truth

Spenser: One day I wrote her name

Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee….

John Donne: The Good Marrow

George Herbert: Virtue

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)

Blake: The Tyger; The Lamb

William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel; Kubla Khan

P B Shelley: Ode to the West Wind; to a Skylark

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Robert Browing: My last Duchess

W B Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting

T S Eliot: Hollow Men

Drama

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

J M Synge: Riders To the sea

Novel

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

Short Story and Essay

A. Short Story

Joseph Conard: The Lagoon

James Joyce: Araby

Somerset Maugham: The Lotos Eater

Katherine Mansfield: The Fly

B. Essay

Charles Lamb: Dream Children: A Reverie;

The Superannuated Man

G B Shaw: Freedom

Francis Bacon: of Studies

Grammar and Usage

Common Errors

Subject Verb Agreement; Tenses; Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions,

Adverbs, Adjective

Sentence Forms

Simple Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses

Joining and Splitting of Sentences

Narration

Direct and Indirect

Composition

A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic

Literary Devices:

Rhetoric and Prosody