Monday, July 8, 2013

Advanced Level English Literature Syllabus

         In the A/L syllabus we have Poems, Short Stories, Dramas and Novels.

                 We have to study     25 Poems
                                                06 Short Stories
                                                05 Dramas
                                                04 Novels
 

Poems -
  1. Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
  2. Sonnet 138 - William Shakespeare
  3. The Good Marrow - John Donne
  4. Song- Goe and catch a Falling Star - John Donne
  5. Avarice - George Herbert
  6. Portrait of Zimri - John Dryden
  7. Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
  8. The Tyger - William Blake
  9. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
  10. Ode to a Skylark - P.B Shelly
  11. Morthe D'Arthur - Alfred Lord Tennyson
  12. Felix Randal - Gerard Manley Hopkins
  13. Remembrance - Emily Bronte
  14. Disabled - Wilford Owen
  15. Mending Wall - Robert Frost
  16. Preludes - T.S. Eliot
  17. Mirror - Sylvia Plath
  18. My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait ... - Gwendolyn Brooks
  19. Feast - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  20. A Far Cry From Africa - Derek Walcott
  21. Night of the Scorpion - Nissim Ezekiel 
  22. Grandmother - Sitakant Mahapatra
  23. The Poet - Lakdasa Wikkramasingha
  24. Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Angela de Silva
  25. At What Dark Point - Anne Ranasinghe 

Short Stories -
  1. The Open Window -SAKI
  2. The Boarding House - JAMES JOYCE
  3. Hills like White Elephants - E. HEMINGWAY
  4. Action and Reaction - CHITRA FERNENDO
  5. Professional Mourners -ALAGU SUBRAMANIUM
  6. A Temporary Matter - THUMPA LAHIRI

Dramas -
  1. House of Bernarda Alba -F.G LORCA-
  2. The Seagull- ANTON CHEKHOV
  3. Othello - W. SHAKESPEARE
  4. A Midsummer Night's Dream- W. SHAKESPEARE
  5. Waiting for Godot- SAMUEL BECKETT

Novels -
  1. Great Expectations - CHARLES DICKENS
  2. Sense and Sensibility- JANE AUSTIN
  3. The Road from Elephant Pass- NIHAL DE SILVA
  4. July's People- NADINE GORDIMER

Literature is not difficult

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                         From today this blog will help you in your literature for Advanced Level students. I'm an A/L student myself. So I thought to start a blog to give the knowledge that I have, to others. So if anyone likes to join this blog as an admin, please contact me via my email address.

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