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