BSEB, Intermediate (10+2) English Paper 2018

BSEB, Intermediate (10+2) English Paper 

The question pattern of BSEB Intermediate (10+2) has been changed, more objective type questions will be asked instead of descriptive one. Possibly, more  questions will be asked based on Author and Works through different types of objective questions. Therefore, the given Authors and their works list under different generic titles will prove the candidates very helpful for English paper. The authors given in the list are taken from the prescribed book, Rainbow (Story of English) for class-XI & XII students.

Works and Respective Authors

Poet and their Poems

Works                                    Author

The Vision of Piers the Plowman   William Langland

The Canterbury Tales       Geoffrey Chaucer

Le Morted’Arthur                  Thomas Malory

Tamburlaine the Great

Dr. Faustus                                  Christopher Marlowe

Edward-II

Shakespearean sonnet

Venus and Adonis        William Shakespeare

Lucrece

Astrophel and Stella              Philip Sidney

L’Allegro

IL Penseroso

Lycidas                                     John Milton

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Mac Flecknoe                           John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

Hudibras                                  Samuel Butler

Four Pastorals

Dunciad

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot     Alexander Pope

Rape of the Lock

Elegy Written in a country Churchyard   Thomas Gray

Lyrical Ballads    William Wordsworth+ST Coleridge

The Rime of Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan                              ST Coleridge

Christabel

Manfred

Cain

Childe Harold                           Lord Byron

Vision of Judgement

Don Juan

Adonais

The Skylark

The Cloud

Ode to the West Wind          PB Shelley

Revolt of Islam

Queen Mab

Eve of St. Agnes                      John Keats

Lamia

In Memoriam                     Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sohrab and Rustam

The Scholar Gypsy            Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

Pied Beauty                             GM Hopkins

Songs of children

Peacock Pie                    Walter de la Mare

Among School Children

Sailing to Byzantium              W B Yeats

Second Coming

The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Wasteland                       T.S. Eliot

Ash Wednesday

Four Quartets

Poems

Look, Stranger                        W H Auden

Jaguar

Hawk Roosting                        Ted Hughes

A Psalm of Life                        Longfellow

Village Song

Songs of Radha                       Sarojini Naidu

A Soul’s Prayer

The Gitanjali

The Savitri                                Rabindranath Tagore

First People

Blood of My Country       Jeannethe Armstrong

Wind Women

Translation into Fiction         Harris

Sacred Presence                     Arnold Itwaru

Poems from Prison                Wole Soyinka

Beware Soul-Brother

Christmas in Biafra                 Chinua Achebe

In a Green Night

The Castaway                         Derek Walcott

The Gulf

 Dramatists and their works

Author                                   Works

Shakespeare                Hamlet     Othello
                                    Macbeth    Julius Caesar
                                    King Lear

John Galsworthy                Strife        justice

George Bernard Shaw       Widowers’ House
                                           Arms and  the Man
                                           Pygmalion

                                    Murder in the Cathedral

Family Reunion

T.S. Eliot                     The Cocktail Party

Confidential Clerk

Christopher Fry               Lady’s Not for Burning

John Osborne                  Look Back in Anger

Samuel Beckett               Waiting for Godot

Harold Pinter                  The Homecoming

American Drama

Eugene O’Neill           The Hairy Ape   

Anna Christie                  

Desire Under the Elms

The Iceman Cometh

Arthur Miller                 All my Sons 
                                       Death of a Salesman

Tennesse William          A Street Car Named Desire

African Drama

Wole Soyinka                   A Dance of Forest          

The Lion and the Jewel

Indian Drama

Asif Currimbhoy              The Tourist Mecca

Rabindranath Tagore        Chitra     Red Oleander

Grish Karnad                    Hayavadana      Tuglaq

Novelists and their works

British Novelists

Richardson                       Pamela

Henry Fielding                 Tom Jones

Oliver Goldsmith             Vicar of Wakefield

Ann Radcliff                    Mysteries of Utopia

Jane Austen                   Pride and Prejudice

  Sense and Sensibility

Walter Scott                     Ivanhoe    Kenilworth

Charles Dickens               Pick Wick Papers            

      David Copperfield

WM Thackeray                Vanity Fair

Thomas Hardy                 Far From the Madding Crowd

DH Lawrence                   Sons and Lovers

Rudyard Kipling               Jungle Book

Joseph Conrad                 The Heart of Darkness

Indian Novelists

Bankim Chandra             Raj Mohan’s Wife

Mulk Raj Anand           Untouchable      Coolie        

  Two Leaves and A Bud

RK Narayan                The Guide         

The Bachelor of Arts      

Swami and Friends
        

Raja Rao                     Serpent and The Rope                 

Kanthapura

Nayantara Sahagal          Storm in the Chandgarth            

    Rich Like Us.

Kamala Markandaya       Nector In a Sieve   

                Some Inner Fury

Khushwant Singh            Train to Pakistan

K.S. Duggal                     Twice Born Twice Dead

Chamanwahab                 Azadi

Manohar Malagaonkar       A Bend in the Ganges

Anita Desai                 Cry, the Peacock             

Bye, Bye Blackbird         

Voices in the City

Arun Joshi                  The Foreigner                 

Strange Case of Billy Biswas

Vikram Seth                The Golden Gate            

A Suitable Boy

Amitav Ghosh                  The Shadow Lines

Shashi Tharoor                 The Great Indian Novel

Arudhanti Roy                  The God of Small Things

Raj kumar Jha                   The Blue Bedspread

Kiran Desai                       The Inheritance of Loss

American, Australian and Canadian Novels

Herman Melville        Typee                               

Mobydick

Mark Twain                 Tom Sawyer                                  

Huckleberry Finn

Henry James               The Europeans               

The Ambassadors      

The Portrait of a Lady

Ernest Hemingway         For Whom the Bell Tolls

                                        The Old Man and the Sea   

                                        A Farewell to Arms

Ralph Ellison                  Invisible Man

Tony Morrison               The Blue Eye      Sula

Alice Walker                  The Colour Purple

Margaret Atwood           The Edible Woman

Patrick White                  Voss      Tree of Man

African Novelists

Chinua Achebe                Things Fall Apart            

      Arrow of God

Ngugi Wa Thiong            Weep Not Child              

     Petals of Blood               

     Devil on the Cross

Nadine Gordimer               The Conservationist

                                           A Guest of Honour         

       A Son’s Story

George Lemming       In the Castle of My Skin

VS Naipoul                The House for Mr. Vishwas   
                                   The Mimic Man           
                                   Half A Life

Lakshmi Persuad             Butterfly in the Wing
                                         Shastra

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The poem Elegy written in a country churchyard is composed by Thomas Gray published in 1751. The inspiration for the poem is still unknown. However, it is believed that the idea for this elegy came after the death of Richard West in 1742. The original title of the elegy is Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard. The poem was sent to Horace Walpole who popularised the poem among literary circles in London. Gray was forced to publish the poem by an editor of a magazine.

The poem is popular as elegy but it does not seem an elegy; it characterises more as an ode than an elegy. It is a contemplative, meditative and reflective that tends to be Horatian’s private odes. The poem illustrates narrator argument throughout the poem; the comfort lies in pondering about rustics buried in the country churchyard. In the poem, rural panorama has been glorified. As narrator thinks about them, so he solaces himself. He saw many his ancients in the graveyard.

The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is an all-time poem, which has become immortal. The immortality of the poem lies in few stanzas of the poem. The stanzas:

“ Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:

Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

This stanza has been using not only in literary circles rather people of different walk of life. It is a great source of inspiration for them who have scarce of resources.

Anita Krishan - the visionary contemporary novelist!

Anita Krishan, the author in the buzz these days who has penned more than five novels, is said to be the one who will take ahead the great legacy of the celebrated classic Indian novelists who famed Indian English fiction on the world stage - R. K. Narayan, Anand, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy and likes of Amitav Ghosh. The present-day popular novelist Anita Krishan was born and raised in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She was educated in the same city and after her masters in English Literature, she took the teaching job and began teaching literature to her students at a senior level. Even before she took on teaching, the writer in Anita drew her attention to poetry writing and it developed in her throughout. She has also written and directed plays during her career as a senior teacher. 

Jane Eyre - book review

Reading the Victorian novels and pre-era is often a good experience in general and I also love reading novels usually written by the classic authors like Austen, Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray and others who would love to see this soaring reception for their works even centuries after… I would love to share my review of the novels I have read and I would love to start it with Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is a timeless classic which arouses different kinds of emotions in the readers when they read it and it surely offers the free play of interpretations without and presumptions and critics have been happy finding a playground like this!

How reading Poetry is different than reading Prose fiction?

Well, reading is always a good habit and we often hope that we somehow get to finish at least 10 good books in a year so that our intellectual quota of life hangs in balance. However, people often think that reading is reading and that can be reading anything. Let me tell my opinion to the readers about such issues. I don't think that reading can be managed in the same way - reading different things are certainly different in the terms of experience and practicality. And the matter of fact is that reading a novel and reading poetry are two different things - two different kinds of reading practice altogether. 

Literature and Criticism and Literary Theory

Now that I am young enough to understand what did I do as a child and a student of the elementary education and eventually during my college, I have a lot of disappointing assumptions about everything! There are, nevertheless, many of the pleasant things too. However, the most important disappointment that I had during my education period is the lack of 'Indianness' and I used to boast it when I was young - thinking like an English, living like an English, reading like an English and trying to write as an English as well. And now I think and ask myself - where are we Indians in the conference where the great minds from different parts of the world meet to discuss the various aspects of literature - contemporary to the back-pages. We seldom have the answers because we never cared for it and this is true. 

In the terms of English literature, Indian scholars, whether in the classrooms or as the authors on the book covers, have just learnt the art of appreciating or offering their critical insights on topics, on writers, on different aspects or on anything. Never, However, we have seen some quality critics from India offering something innovative or original which could make the headlines in the terms of English literature and this is certainly our drawback or lacuna which we could never fill with our knowledge or something else! 

English Literature, in the terms of criticism and literary theory, dies in the universities of India (most often) just after the death of T. S. Eliot and we seldom reach the contemporary ones like Deconstruction of different aspects of structuralism. We do lack something but we are never ready to accept that because we are too busy learning to accept anything and make those things the benchmarks. We have to evolve and we have to learn too much and we have to innovate and offer something 'original' as well... 

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