IGNOU MEG-18
- American Poetry,
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MEG-18 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - An Introduction to American Poetry: Themes and Issues

• Unit 1 - Contextualizing American Poetry: Colonial Period
• Unit 2 - Contextualizing American Poetry: Post Colonial Period
• Unit 3 - Contextualizing American Poetry: Modern Period

Block 2 - Eighteen and the Nineteenth Century-I

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Philip Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle”
• Unit 3 - Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought From Africa to America”
• Unit 4 - Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Brahma”
• Unit 5 - Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
• Unit 6 - Emily Dickinson: “I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed” and “She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms”

Block 3 - Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century-II

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Edgar Lee Master’s “America”
• Unit 3 - Carl Sandburg’s “Accomplished Facts”
• Unit 4 - Robert Frost's “Home Burial” and “After Apple Picking”

Block 4 - Early Twentieth Century

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - T. S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”
• Unit 3 - Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
• Unit 4 - William Carlos Williams’ “A Good Night”
• Unit 5 - Countee Cullen’s “Lines to My Father” and “Langston Hughes’ Let America Be America Again”

Block 5 - Mid Twentieth Century

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Robert Lowell’s “For The Union Dead”
• Unit 3 - Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”, “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”
• Unit 4 - Anne Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” and Elizabth Bishop’s “A Summer’s Dream”
• Unit 5 - Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of The Jar”

Block 6 - Late Twentieth Century

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - John Crowe Ransom’s “Riverside”
• Unit 3 - Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Selection From Laguna Woman” and “Joy Harjo’s The Last Song”
• Unit 4 - Robert Penn Warren’s “A Way to Love God”
• Unit 5 - Allen Ginsberg's “Death and Fame”

Block 7 - Contemporary Poetry

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Adrienne Rich’s “In a Classroom” and Carolyn Kizer’s “On a Line from Valéry” (The Gulf War)
• Unit 3 - Maya Angelou’s “Touched by an Angel” and Marge Piercy’s “The Colors Passing Through Us”
• Unit 4 - Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s “Pantoun for Chinese Women”
• Unit 5 - Gwendolyn Brooks “The Children of the Poor”

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MEG-18 English (Total-2, Solved-2, Unsolved-0)

• December (2022)
• June (2023)

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