Great literature is about the world around us. It observes. It describes. It explains. It dreams. It imagines. It creates. It tells stories. It nurtures ideas and ideals. It cultivates emotion. Like in the case of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, it opens to us the portals through which we experience multiple realities: our own, those of people around us, those of people we have never met, and those that we have barely even heard of. It provides to us myriad lenses through which we can look at these realities from different perspectives. It teaches us the ways of the world.
This course introduces students to an eclectic mix of texts from some of the greatest names in literature: Tagore and Kipling, H.G. Wells and Anton Chekhov, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, and many others besides. Fierce optimism, dark states of mind, the deep wonder of adventure, banal quarrels, the ordinary struggles of humans, and the powerful beauty of nature, all find a place here, either as verse or prose or drama. These are truly ships of the ages, delighting as well as teaching all those who embark on a journey with them.
- Teacher: COE CVV
- Teacher: Saurabh Singanapalli