Mirage

MIRAGE

This short story is the first of the two short stories by Maureen Seneviratne. Both her stories deal with the racial conflict, or the ethnic war in our country. But what will strike you as different is the way she tells her stories or her narrative technique.

Second Year 2nd Semi

Poetry

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English and American Poetry

-   John Donne: 1572-1630, Song; Sweetest Love I do not go

-   William Wordsworth: 1770-1850, Upon Westminster Bridge

-   Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose

-   John Keats: 1795-1821, La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, A thing of Beauty

-   W. B. Yeats: 1865-1919, Wild Swans at The Coole

-   Walter De La Mare: 1873-1956, Estranged

-   Rupert Brooke: 1887-1915, The Soldier

Sri Lankan and Post-colonial Poetry

-   Jean Arasanayegam In the Month of July, Ruined Gopuram

-   Anne Raqnasinghe, Secretariat: Cecil Rajendra, Song of Hope

-   Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation

Short stories

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-   Maurreen Seneviratne, Mirage,

-   Jhumpa Lahiri: Mrs. Sen’s

-   O’Henry, The Purple Dress  

Novel

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-   George Orwell: Animal Farm

or

-   Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities

Drama

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-  William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

 or

-  Romeo and Juliet