Week 1:
Registrations

Week 2:
Introduction, Discussing the Syllabus
Alfred Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall,"
Thomas Hardy's "Are You Digging on My Grave"

Week 3:
Ch 1: What is Poetry?
Alfred Tennyson's "The Eagle"

Week 4:
Ch 2: Reading the Poem
Thomas Hardy's "The Man He Killed"

Week 5:
Ch 3: Denotation and Connotation
Emily Dickinson's "There is no frigate like a book"

Week 6:
Ch 4: Imagery
Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night"

Week 7:
Revision

Hajj Break

Week 8:
Ch 5: Figurative Language 1 (Simile, Metaphor, Personification)
Emily Dickinson's "I felt a funeral in my brain"

Week 9:

Mid Term Exam

Week 10:
Chapter 6: Figurative Language 2 (Symbol, Allegory)
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"


Week 11:
Chapter 7: Figurative Language 3 (Irony, Paradox)
William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"


Week 12:
Chapter 7: Figurative Language 3 (Understatement, Overstatement)
P.B. Shelley's "Ozymandias"

Week 13:
Chapter 9: Meaning and Idea
Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods in a Snowy Evening"


Week 14:
1) Form and Structure:
a) External Forms: epic, ballad, ode, lyric, sonnet, elegy, dramatic
monologue ..etc.
b) Internal Musical Devices: meter, free verse, blank verse, rhyme,
alliteration, etc.
2) Periods of English Poetry:
Renaissance, Neoclassical, Metaphysical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern.

Week 15:
Quran and Thaqafa Exams