Monday, February 13, 2017
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
EN 2204 Sri Lankan Literature
Poetry
Kamala Wijerathne - Soldier’s Wife Weep / Monument / Musical
DayaDisanayake - Kite / Interview
Richard de Soyza - Lepidoptera/Gajagawannema.
Patrick Fernando - Fisherman mourned by his wife
Anne Ranasinghe - Sati
LakdasaWickramasinghe -Folk Poet Ysinno
YasmineGunarathne - This Language This Woman
Jean Arsanayagam - Mother-in-law
Short Story
Golden Oriole by SuwimaleeKarunaratne
Misunderstanding by J.S Tissanayagam
Drama
Rasanayagam’s Last Riot by Ernest Macintyre
Intruder by ThayagarajaArasanayagam
EN 2105 - Common Wealth Literature - 2108
Poetry
WoleSoynka - ‘Telephone conversation’
A.K. Ramanujan - ‘River’, ‘Obituary’
N. Ezekial - ‘Back Ground Casually’
Kamala Das - ‘My Grand Mother’s House’
Dereckwalkot - ‘Far Cry from Africa’
Thargore - Unworthy Gift
J. P Clerk - Night Rain
Short story
‘Post Master’ by Tagore
Divorcee by Ken SaroWiwa
Novel
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
‘Waiting Earth’ by P. Wijenayeka
Friday, January 2, 2015
Second Year 2nd Semi
Poetry
· Recommended text
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
· Recommended text
- Maurreen Seneviratne, Mirage,
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Mrs. Sen’s
- O’Henry, The Purple Dress
Novel
· Recommended text
- George Orwell: Animal Farm
or
- Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities
Drama
· Recommended text
- William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
or
- Romeo and Juliet
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
EN: 1205 American & British Literature - 1208
Poetry
| Sylvia Plath | Mirror, Morning Song |
| T.S Eliot | Morning at the Window |
| Robert Frost | Mending Wall / Stopping by Woods in a snowy Evening |
| H.W. Longfellow | Slave’s Dream |
| Shakespeare | My Mistress’ Eyes |
| William Blake | Chimney Sweepers 1 / 2 |
| John Keats | Ode to Grecian Urn |
| Wilfred Owen | DulceEt Decorum Est |
| Rupert Brooke | Soldier |
Short story
| Ernest Hemmingway | The old man at the Bridge |
| James Joyce | The Dead |
Drama
| Shakespeare | King Lear or Tempest |
Monday, October 20, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The Romantic Era
The Romantic Era
Taken from https://www.facebook.com/OldEnglishLiterature
By the late 18th century in France and Germany, literary taste began to turn from classical and neoclassical
By the late 18th century in France and Germany, literary taste began to turn from classical and neoclassical
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Rainbow / My heart leaps up when I behold
Rainbow or My heart leaps up when I behold
In this very short poem consisting of only 9 lines, the speaker begins by declaring that he is moved by nature, and especially by nature's beauty: "My heart leaps up when I behold / A Rainbow in the sky." He goes on to
Rose-cheeked Laura Short notes from the web resource.
Rose-cheeked Laura
Rose-cheeked Laura is written by Campion to illustrate his theories of versification in Observations in the Art
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The Open Window : Analysis
Analyzing Saki's "The Open
Window"
Taken form
“The Open Window” by Hector Hugh Munro, who is better known by the
pseudonym Saki, is an
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