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The function of the absurd in Hamlet (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, etc.)
The significance of female figures in Hamlet
The notion of time in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in metaphysical poetry (similarities
and differences)
The notion of innocence and experience in Williams Blake’s poetry (“The Lamb” and
“The Tyger”) and in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
The notion of sadness and wisdom in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and in
Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
A split world: the function of opposites in Blake’s “The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” and in
Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
A split world: the function of opposites in Blake’s “The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” and in
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Attitudes of Man to Nature in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and in Coleridge’s
“Kubla Khan”
The function of form in Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
The concept of art and reality in Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and in Tennyson’s
“The Lady of Shalott”
The Symbolism of Dogs in Wuthering Heights
The function of illness in Wuthering Heights and in Jane Eyre
Bertha Mason as Jane’s double in Jane Eyre
The function of red in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of
the D’Urbervilles
The role of nature in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the
D’Urbervilles
T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as „love song” and social critique
Prufrock as the modern intellectual in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”