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    This document provides 33 potential essay topics related to English literature and poetry. The topics cover various authors and time periods, including Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Gray, Donne, and Blake. They include prompts about specific works, such as Paradise Lost and the Canterbury Tales, as well as broader topics on literary periods and characteristics of authors. The word limit for any essay response is a minimum of 500 words.

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    Assignment 101

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    This document provides 33 potential essay topics related to English literature and poetry. The topics cover various authors and time periods, including Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Gray, Donne, and Blake. They include prompts about specific works, such as Paradise Lost and the Canterbury Tales, as well as broader topics on literary periods and characteristics of authors. The word limit for any essay response is a minimum of 500 words.

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    This document provides 33 potential essay topics related to English literature and poetry. The topics cover various authors and time periods, including Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Gray, Donne, and Blake. They include prompts about specific works, such as Paradise Lost and the Canterbury Tales, as well as broader topics on literary periods and characteristics of authors. The word limit for any essay response is a minimum of 500 words.

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    This document provides 33 potential essay topics related to English literature and poetry. The topics cover various authors and time periods, including Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Gray, Donne, and Blake. They include prompts about specific works, such as Paradise Lost and the Canterbury Tales, as well as broader topics on literary periods and characteristics of authors. The word limit for any essay response is a minimum of 500 words.

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    Amit Sir’s Assignment Word limit - not less than 500 words .

    1. Write a note on Chaucer's contribution to English poetry .


    Or
    Consider Chaucer as the father of English Poetry.
    Or
    Chaucer is the earliest of great moderns . Discuss.

    2. Write an essay on Chaucer's humor, irony and Satire


    Or
    Chaucer smiles on all his characters . Discuss.

    3. Write an essay/ note on the theme of Paradise Lost -Book 1.

    4. Discuss gray as an elegian poet

    5. Donne as a metaphysical poet .

    6. Write down the characteristics of 14th century England in the light of

    7. Write a critical note on the plan and purpose of the prologue to the Canterbury
    tales.

    8. Trace out the Three Literary periods of Chaucer .

    9. Satan as a hero of indomitable will . Justify

    11. Discuss the Rape of the lock as the mock heroic epic

    11. Write down the salient features of Neo - Classical poetry .

    12. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘the canonization' by John Donne .

    13. Milton is the child of Renaissance and Reformation . Justify

    Or How the Elements of Hellenism and Hebraism are blended in Milton's poetry ?
    14. Discuss Chaucer as a chronicler (recorder - one who maintains the record) of
    his age (14th century England).
    Or
    Discuss Chaucer as a representative of his age.

    15. Critically Analyze the poem ‘Elegy written in a country Churchyard ‘

    16. Give a short introduction on Metaphysical poetry .

    17. Discuss the use of supernatural machinary in the rape of the lock.

    18. Write down the salient features of Elizabethan Poetry / Literature.

    19. Write a note on Chaucer's realism discussed or presented in the prologue to


    the Canterbury tales.

    20. Chaucer's prologue is a gallery of colorful portraits. Discuss


    Or
    “Here's God's plenty” How far is this statement applicable to Chaucer's prologue
    to the Canterbury tales.

    21. Give a character sketch of Belinda.

    22. Critically Analyze the poem ‘Good - morrow ‘ by John Donne.

    23. Make a general estimate about the age of transition or the enlightenment
    movement.

    24. Critically Analyze the sonnets by William Shakespeare which have been
    prescribed in your syllabus.

    25. Consider Chaucer's contribution to the growth and development of the


    English language and versification.
    Or
    It has been said about Chaucer that he found English a dialect and left it in a
    language. Justify.
    26. What do you mean by Graveyard poetry ?

    27. Why is Tomas Gray's Elegy written in a country Churchyard called a


    transitional poem between neoclassicism and Romanticism

    28. Tomas Gray as a transitional poet .

    29. What are the salient features of Tomas Gray's poetry ?

    30. How will you evaluate William Blake as a mystic poet ?

    31. Critically Analyze the poems .


    ● The Lamb
    ● The Tyger

    32. How do Sydney and Shakespeare deviate from the prevalent conventional
    modes of sonneteering ? Elaborate.

    33. What features of metaphysical poetry are employed by Andrew Marwell in his
    poem “ To his Coy Mistress” .

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