Poets, their poems, their Nationality & Period (Questions 1,5,14,18 &19)--A complete List

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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- Ballad பாடினாள். அப்போ court-   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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