ENGLISH LITERATURE 5: POETRY

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Discuss the usage of MYTH in modern poetry / T. S. Eliot's or E. Pound's or W. B. Yeats's poetry
The main characteristics of the poetry of the 30s. Discuss the poems you've studied
Compare and contrast the rendition () of the theme of WAR by at least 2 different poets
E. Pound's contribution to the formation and development of modernist sensibility and poetics
Discuss the theme of SUFFERING in modern poetry with consideration of 2 diff. poets / in W. H. Auden's and E.
Sitwell's poetry
Discuss the treatment of WOMEN in T. S. Eliot's and W. B. Yeats's poetry
The poets of the 30s responded to the social reality of the period. Discuss the topic considering the poems of at
least 2 diff. poets
Religious themes in modern poetry. Discuss at least one poet
The main characteristics of either W. B. Yeats's or T. S. Eliot's poetry. Consider the poems that you've studied
The main characteristics of G. M. Hopkins's or Dylan Thomas's poetry. Discuss the poems that you've studied
T. S. Eliot's contribution to the formation and development of modernist sensibility and poetics
Discuss the use of images in the poetry of two diff. poets. Consider the poems that you've studied
Discuss two diff. themes in W. B. Yeats's poetry. Consider the poems that you've studied
Yeats showed how a truly great poet can reflect the varying development of the age yet maintain the
unmistakably individual accent.Discuss W. B. Yeats's development as a poet in the light of this statement
The unity of men and nature, of past and present, of life and death in the poetry of Dylan Thomas
Discuss the treatment of TIME in modern poetry considering at least 2 poets.
The main characteristics of Philip Larkin's or Dylan Thomas's poetry. Consider the poems that you've studied
T. S. Eliot as an urban poet. Develop and illustrate this thesis considering the poems that you've studied
Themes and techniques of the poets of the Movement(Larkin and Gunn)
For poetry makes nothing happen...it survives...A way of happening, a mouth (from In Memory of W. B. Yeats).
Discuss this idea of W. H. Auden in view of your own readings of modern poetry. Consider the work of at least 2
poets
The LOVE themes in Eliot's or Yeats's poetry
Universal Ideas in the poetry of the Great War. Discuss the poems of at least 2 poets