This is the complete list of Poetry section of TNPSC exams covered in a single tabular format. Memory techniques to study certain topics are provided with the same. It covers the Questions 1, 5, 14, 18 and 19 of PART-C of the syllabus.
S
  No 
 | 
  
Poem 
 | 
  
Poet 
 | 
 
1 
 | 
  
A
  psalm of life 
 | 
  
Henry
  Wordsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) 
Nick
  Name: Institution 
Nationality:
  American 
Works:
  Ballads, Evangeline, Hiawatha, Courtship of miles Standish, Tales of Wayside
  inn 
Memory Technique: Evangeline inn- ல
  Ballad பாடினாள். அப்போ court- ல  work  பண்ற  Hiawatha அங்க வந்தான். 
 | 
 
2 
 | 
  
Women’s
  Rights 
 | 
  
Annie
  Louisa Walker (1836-1907) 
Nationality:
  British Canadian 
 | 
 
3 
 | 
  
The
  Nation United 
 | 
  
Walt
  Whitman (1819-1892) 
Nationality:
  American 
Newspaper:
  Long Islander 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
4 
 | 
  
English
  Words 
 | 
  
V
  K Gokak (1909-1992) 
Nationality:
  Indian (kannad) 
 | 
 
5 
 | 
  
Snake
   
 | 
  
D
  H Lawrence (1885-1930)=40 (M.T : பாம்பு கடிச்சு சீக்கிரம் செத்துட்டாரு) 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
6 
 | 
  
The
  Man He Killed 
 | 
  
Thomas
  Hardy (1840-1928) 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
7 
 | 
  
Off
  to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning 
 | 
  
Norman
  Nicholson (1914-1987) 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
8 
 | 
  
Sonnet
  No. 116 
 | 
  
William
  Shakespeare (1564-1616)= 52 
Nationality:
  England 
Works: Comedy- A Midsummer Night’s
  dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing 
Tragedy- Hamlet, King Lear, Othello,
  Mcbeth, Romeo& Juliet 
History- King John, King Richard II, King
  Richard III, henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII 
 | 
 
9 
 | 
  
Solitary
  Reaper 
 | 
  
William
  Wordsworth(1770-1850) 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
10 
 | 
  
Be
  the Best 
 | 
  
Douglas
  Malloch (1877-1938) 
Nick
  Name: Lumberman’s Poet 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
11 
 | 
  
O
  Captain My Captain 
 | 
  
Walt
  Whitman (1819-1892) 
Nationality:
  American 
Newspaper:
  Long Islander 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
12 
 | 
  
Laugh
  and Be Merry 
 | 
  
John
  Masefield 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
13 
 | 
  
Earth
  (The Eye of the Prophet) 
 | 
  
Khalil
  Gibran 
Nationality:
  Lebanon 
 | 
 
14 
 | 
  
Don’t
  Quit 
 | 
  
Edgar
  A Guest 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
15 
 | 
  
The
  Apology 
 | 
  
Ralph
  Waldo Emerson 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
16 
 | 
  
Be
  Glad Your Nose is on your face  
 | 
  
Jack
  Prelutsky 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
17 
 | 
  
A
  Sonnet for my incomparable mother 
 | 
  
F
  Joanna 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
18 
 | 
  
The
  Flying wonder 
 | 
  
Stephen
  Vincent Benet 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
19 
 | 
  
To
  A Millionaire 
 | 
  
Archibald
  Lampman 
Nationality:
  Canadian 
 | 
 
20 
 | 
  
The
  Piano 
 | 
  
D
  H Lawrence 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
21 
 | 
  
Manliness 
 | 
  
Rudyard
  Kipling 
Nationality:
  England (Born in India) 
 | 
 
22 
 | 
  
Going
  for Water 
 | 
  
Robert
  Frost (1874-1963) 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
23 
 | 
  
The
  cry of the children 
 | 
  
Elizabeth
  Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
24 
 | 
  
Migrant
  Bird 
 | 
  
Famida
  Y Basheer 
Nationality:
  Indian (Nilgiris, TamilNadu) 
 | 
 
25 
 | 
  
Shilpi 
 | 
  
Ashwin
  Parthiban 
Nationality:
  Indian 
 | 
 
26 
 | 
  
Where
  the mind is withour fear 
 | 
  
Rabindranath
  tagore (1861-1941) 
Nationality:
  Indian 
Works:
  Gitanjali, Gora, Jana Gana Mana 
Awards:
  Nobel prize for literature in 1913 
 | 
 
27 
 | 
  
Punishment
  in Kindergarten 
 | 
  
Kamala
  Das/ Kamala Surayya (1934-2009) 
Nickname:
  Madhavikutty 
Nationality:
  Indian (Kerala) 
Awards:
  Sahitya Academy Award, Vayalar award, Ezhuthachchan Puraskaram 
 | 
 
28 
 | 
  
Nine
  Gold Medals 
 | 
  
David
  Roth 
Nationality:
  American 
 | 
 
29 
 | 
  
Is
  Life but a dream 
 | 
  
Lewis
  Carroll (1832-1898) 
Nationality:
  England 
Works:
  Alice in Wonderland, Through the looking glass, The hunting of the snark,
  Jabberwocky 
 | 
 
30 
 | 
  
Keep
  Your Spirits High 
 | 
  
Hope
  Spencer 
 | 
 
31 
 | 
  
You
  Can’t be that You Can’t be that 
 | 
  
Brian
  Patten 
Nationality:
  British 
 | 
 
32 
 | 
  
Granny Granny 
Please Comb My
  Hair 
 | 
  
Grace
  Nichols 
Nationality:
  Guyana 
 | 
 
33 
 | 
  
With a Friend 
 | 
  
Vivian
  Gould 
Nationality:
  England 
 | 
 
34 
 | 
  
To Cook and
  Eat 
 | 
  
Emma
  Richards ( aged 12) 
 | 
 
35 
 | 
  
To INDIA - My Native Land 
 | 
  
Henry Louis
  Vivian Derozio 
Nationality:
  Indian 
He
  wrote to his students, “Expanding like the petals of young flowers, I watch
  the gentle opening of your young minds” 
 | 
 
36 
 | 
  
A tiger in the
  zoo 
 | 
  
Leslie Norris 
Nationality:
  Welsh 
 | 
 
37 
 | 
  
No men are
  Foreign 
 | 
  
James Kirkup 
Nationality: English 
Awards: Atlantic
  award in 1950 
During World
  war II, he worked as a farm labourer 
 | 
 
38 
 | 
  
Discovery 
 | 
  
Gayatri
  Pahlajani 
Nationality:
  Indian 
 | 
 
39 
 | 
  
Biking 
 | 
  
Judith
  Nicholls 
 | 
 
40 
 | 
  
Bat 
 | 
  
Randall Jarell 
 | 
 
41 
 | 
  
My Grandmother’s
  house 
 | 
  
Kamala
  Das/ Kamala Surayya (1934-2009) 
Nickname:
  Madhavikutty 
Nationality:
  Indian (Kerala) 
Awards:
  Sahitya Academy Award, Vayalar award, Ezhuthachchan Puraskaram 
 | 
 
42 
 | 
  
Inclusion 
 | 
  
Dipti
  Bhatia   
 | 
 

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