IGNOU MEG-1 | Old Question papers | 10 Years - 20 Question Papers | British Poetry

June 2021 Note : Attempt any five questions. Question no. 1 is compulsory. Attempt five questions in all in one answer booklet. Compulsory 1. Attempt with reference to the context, any two of

the following : 210=20 (a) As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their soules, to goe, Whilst some of their sad friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no :

(b) ‘‘Say Heav’nly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein, Afford a present to the Infant God ?’’

(c) Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigu’d, I said, Tye up the knocker, say I’m sick, I’m dead. The dog-star rages ! nay ’tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

(d) He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dear woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. Answer any four questions. 420=80 2. Would you agree that the Amoretti Sonnets by Spenser are replete with images of sensuality ? Provide a detailed answer covering the poet, his beloved and the age during which he wrote.

3. Attempt a critical appreciation of any one of the following poems : (i) A Nocturnal (ii) Redemption (iii) The Garden 4. Would you agree that Puritanism influenced Milton’s life ? Attempt an answer based on your understanding of the works you have studied.

5. Discuss Mac Flecknoe as a mock-heroic poem.

6. Write a detailed answer (based on your readings of Coleridge’s poems), on Coleridge’s contribution to poetry and literature.

7. Comment on the pre-Raphaelite treatment of women based on your reading of ‘My Sister’s Sleep’ and ‘The Blessed Damozel’.

8. Are ‘poetry, feminine beauty and love’ related to each other in ‘Adam’s Curse’ ? Comment.

9. Why is Larkin known as an ‘‘uncommon poet for the common man’’ ? Attempt a detailed discussion based on your reading of his works.

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MEG-01 MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH (MA) (ENGLISH) (MEG)

Term-End Examination June, 2020 MEG-01 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note :(i) Question No. 1 is compulsory. (ii) Answer any four other questions. (iii) No additional answer booklet shall be provided.

1. Answer with reference to the context any two of the following : 10 x 2 = 20

(a) Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes been to me ayding, others to adorne : Whom ye thought worthy of your grace full rymes, That even the greatest did not greathy scorne To heare then names sung in your simple layes. But joyed in theyr prayse.

(b) Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep clos'd o're the head of your lou'd Lycidas ?

(c) Swift as a spirit hastening to his task of glory and of good, the sun sprang ferth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask. of darkness fell from the Awakened Earth.

(d) The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake : I listened with heart fit to break.

2.Identify the most influential factors that shaped Spenser's career as a poet. Illustrate with examples from the poems you have read. 20

3. Write a detailed note on John Donne's poetic medium. 20

4. Why do you think the Restoration age (1660- 1700 A. D.) is called the Age of Dryden ? Give a detailed answer with examples from the texts in your syllabus. 20

5. Explain the salient features of Romanticism based on your understanding of the Romantic poets. 20

6. Attempt a critical appreciation of any one poem : 20

(a) "The Triumph of Life"

(b) "Hyperion : A Fragment"

(d), "London"

7. Based on your understanding of The Blessed Damozel explain how Rossetti is concerned with the connection between this physical world and the world of the afterlife. 20

8. Bring out the Imagist elements in T. S. Eliot with reference to The Wasteland. 20

9. Show, how death and suicide are important themes in Sylvia Plath's poems. 20

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MEG-1I MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

Term-End Examination December, 2019 -74911

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Questions no. 1 is compulsory. Attempt any four other questions. No additional answer booklet shall be provided.

1. Answer any two with reference to the context : 2x10=20

(a) The forward youth that would appear Must now forsake his Muses dear, Nor in the shadows sing His numbers languishing.

(b) Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

(d) Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

Answer any four questions : 4x20=80

2.What does the term "Renaissance" mean ? Identify some of the key factors responsible for the spread of the Renaissance in Europe.

3. Compare Epithalamion and Prothalamion as wedding songs.

4. What were some of the cultural and political factors that led to the making of Milton as the first major English epic poet ?

5. Why do you think satire became popular in the age of Dryden and Pope ?

6. What early imitations of Romanticism do you find in Robert Burns ?

7. Assess the contribution of the poets of the First World War to modern British poetry.

8. Comment on Yeats' poetic use of his ambivalent attitude to the Easter Rebellion in "Easter 1916".

9. How does Confessional Poetry differ from the kind of poetry that was written in the early decades of the twentieth century ?

MEG-11 MASTER'S DEGR.EE PROGRAM:ME IN ENGLISH

Term-End Examination 2.5B9S

June, 2019 MEG-1 :

BRITISH POETRY Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Attempt the questions. Each question carries 10 marks.

Explain the passages below with reference to their contexts, supplying critical comments where necessary.

1. (a) His hors were gode, but he was nat gay, Of fustian he wered a gipoun; Al bismotered with his habergeoun; For he was late y-come from his viage, And wente for to doon his pilgrimage. OR MEG-1 P.T.O.

(b) Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.

2. (a) Ali my deere love why doe ye sleepe thus long, When meeter were that ye should now awake, T'awayt the comming of your joyous make, And hearken to the birds' lovelearned song, The deawy leaves among.

(b) Against the brydale day, which is not long : Sweet Themmes ! runne softly, till I end my song.

3. (a) If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.

(b) Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness; Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.

4. (a) For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.

(b) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove.

. 5. (a) Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Sh 's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.

(b) As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd.

6. (a) Nor will it seem to thee, 0 Friend ! so prompt In sympathy, that I have lengthened out With fond and feeble tongue a tedious tale.

(b) Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

7. (a) 'First, who art thou .... Before thy memory, I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did„ and died, And if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit Had been with purer nutriment supplied, Corruption would not now thus much inherit Of what was once Rousseau,

(b) Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, . Unsceptred, and his realmless eyes were closed;

8 . (a) Go dig The white-grape vineyard where the oil-press stood, Drop water gently till the stuface sink, And if ye find ... Ah God, I know not,

(b) Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword !

9. (a) Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages, And all the drop-scenes drop at once. Upon a hundred thousand stages, It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

(b) The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed Car at four. And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.

10. (a) The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

(b) Ah were I courageous enough To shout Stuff your pension ! But I know, all too well, that's the stuff That dreams are made on :

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

June, 2017

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1 and any three from the

remaining questions.

1. Explain any four of the passages given below

with reference to their contexts supplying brief

critical comments where necessary :

4x10=40

(a)

Of fustian he wered a gypoun

Al bismotered with his habergeoun,

For he was late y-come from his viage,

And wente for to doon his pilgrymage.

(b)

Nor can you more judge womans

thoughts by teares,

Than by her shadow, what she weares.

O perverse sexe, where none is true

but shee,

Who's therefore true, because her

truth kills me.

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P.T.O. (c)

Her face was vail'd, yet to my fancied sight,

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her

person shin'd

So clear, as in no face with more delight.

(d)

What walls can guard me, or what

shades can hide ?

They pierce my thickets, thro' my grot

they glide,

By land, by water, they renew the charge;

They stop the chariot, and they board

the barge.

(e)

for they of Athens and Jerusalem

Were neither mid the mighty captives seen

Nor mid the ribald crowd that followed them

(f)

And thus we sit together now,

And all night long we have not stirred,

And yet God has not said a word !

(g)

Caught in that sensual music all neglect

Monuments of unageing intellect.

2. Comment upon the literary and historical

significance of one of the following poems : 20

(a)

The Canterbury Tales

(b)

Mac Flecknoe

(c)

The Prelude

(d)

The Waste Land

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2 3. Assess Andrew Marvell either as a political poet

or as a writer of philosophical and love poetry.

Comment on the epic elements in 'Hyperion : A

Fragment'.

"The Victorian poets lacked the fire and passion

which we find in the poets of the Romantic

Revival, but they excelled them in breadth of

outlook and variety of method." Discuss. 20

6. Attempt a critical appreciation of either 'Easter

1916' or 'No Second Troy'.

"Poetry is 'speech framed' to be heard for its own

sake and interest even over and above its

interest of meaning." Examine.

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Term-End Examination

December, 2017

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1 and any four from the

remaining questions.

1. Explain any two of the following passages with

reference to their contexts and supply brief

critical comments where necessary :

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(a)

Wel coude he sitte on hors, and faire ryde.

He coude songes make and wel endyte,

Juste and eek daunce and wel

purtreye and wryte.

So hote he lovede, that by nightertale

He sleep namore than dooth a nightingale.

(b)

In heaven at his manour I him sought :

They told me there, that he was lately gone

About some land, which he had

dearly bought

Long since on Earth, to take possession.

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P.T.O. (c)

Receiv'd of wits an undistinguish'd race,

Who first his judgment ask'd, and

then a place :

Much they extoll'd his pictures,

much his seat,

And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat :

(d)

While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,

With what strange utterance did

the loud dry wind

Blow through my ears ! the sky

seemed not a sky

Of earth, and with what motion

moved the clouds.

(e)

As here I lie

In this state-chamber, dying by degrees,

Hours and long hours in the dead

night, I ask

"Do I live, am I dead ?"

"Language became to him [Spenser] a willing

servant, and could voice the subtlest shades of

mood or fancy." Examine E. De Selincourt's

opinion on Spenser with suitable examples from

his poetry.

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2 3.

"Dryden's compositions are the effects of a

vigorous genius operating upon large materials."

Do you agree with Samuel Johnson's opinion ?

Provide examples from Dryden's poetry in

support of your answer.

For William Blake, "Childhood is both, itself and

a symbol of a state of soul which may exist in

maturity." Comment on Sir Maurice Bowra's

criticism in the light of your reading of Blake.

"The great Victorian poets lacked the fire and

passion which we find in the poets of the

Romantic Revival, but they excelled them in

breadth of outlook and variety of method."

Discuss.

Comment on the influence of Indian scriptures on

T.S. Eliot's poetry with special reference to The

Waste Land.

Critically evaluate any one of the following

poems :

(a)

The Garden

(b)

The Blessed Damozel

(c)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at

St. Praxed's Church

(d)

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

(e)

Lady Lazarus

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vc MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End` Examination

December, 2011

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question No.1 and any four from the remaining

questions.

1. Explain two of the poems below with reference

to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments :

10+10

(a)

Weep no more, woful shepherds weep no

more,

For lycidas your sorrow is not dead,

Sunk though he be beneath the watry floar,

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,

And yet a non repairs his drooping head.

(b)

Exceeding sweet, yet voyd of sinful vice,

That many sought yet none could ever taste,

Sweet fruit of pleasure brought from

paradice ;

By himselfe and in garden plaste.

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P.T.O. (c)

Structk to the heart by this sad pageantry,

Half to myself I said — And what is life ?

Whose shape is that within the car ? And

why' —

I would have added — is all here amiss ? —

But a voice answered — 'Life' !

(d)

And death shall have no dominion

Dead men maked they shall be one

With the man in the wind and the west

moon ;

When their bones are picked clean and the

clean bones gone.

Write an essay on Chancer's comic vision in the

'Prologue' to The canterbury Tales.

Compare and contrast "The Epithalamion" and

"The Prothalamion".

Discuss "Mac Flecknoe" as a mock-heroic poem.

Bring out the elements of mysticism, if any, in the

poetry of William Blake.

Critically appreciate either "Porphyria's Lover"

or 'The Bishop orders his Tomb at St. Praseed's

church'.

Discuss The prelude as an autobiographical poem.

Examine J.S. Eliot's use of, mythology in 'The Waste 20

Land'.

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ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

December, 2012

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Explain ten passages below with reference to their

contexts supplying brief critical comments where

necessary.

(a)

(b)

(a)

Hir nose tretys, hir eyes greye as glas ;

Hir mouth ful smal, and ther-to softe and reed ;

But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed ;

it was almost a spanne brood. I trowe ;

For, hardily, she was nat undergrowe.

Sin thilke day that she was seven night old,

That trewely she hath the herte in hold

Of Chauntecleer loken in every lith ;

He loved hir so, that wel was him therwith.

And thou, glad Genius ! in whose gentle hand

The bridale bowre and geniall bed remaine,

Without blemish or staine;

And the sweet pleasures of theyr loves delight

With secret ayde doest succour and supply,

Till they bring forth the fruitfull progeny,

Send us the timely fruit of this same night.

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P.T.O. (b) Nor Joue himselfe when he a swan would be 10

For love of Leda, whiter did appeare;

Yet Leda was they say as white as he

Yet not so white as these, nor nothing nerve:

So purely white they were.

(a) If they be two, they are two so

As stiffe twin compasses are two,

Thy, soule the fixt foot, makes no show

To move, but cloth, if the' other doe.

(b) Of theeves and murderers; there I him espied, 10

Who straight, your suit is granted said,& died.

(a) Hence vain deluding joyes,

The brood of folly without father bred,

How little you bested

Or fill the fixed mind with all your, toyes;

Dwell in som idle brain,

(b) Enow of such as, for their bellies' sakes

Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold

(a) All humane things are subject to decay,

And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:

(b) As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame 10

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers, came

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2 6.

(a) In every cry of every Man,

In every infant's cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles I hear

(b) 0 lady! We receive but what we give, 10

And in our life alone does Nature live !

(a) That what I thought was an old root which grew 10

To strange distortion out of the hill side,

Was indeed one of those deluded crew,

(b) Upon the sodden ground

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,

Unceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;

While his bow'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth,

His ancient mother, for some comfort yet.

(a) And have I not saint Praned's ear to pray 10

Horses for ye, and brown Greek manuscripts,

And mistresses with great smooth manbly limbs ?

(b) Yet each man kills the thing he loves, 10

By each let these be heard,

Some do it with a bitter look,

Some with a flattering word,

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P.T.O. 9.

(a) The long-legged moov-hens dive,

And hens to moov-cocks call; Minute by

minute they live;

The stone's in the midst of all

(b) These fragments I have shoved against my ruins 10

Why then lle fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.

10.

(a) And as I was green and carefree,

famous among the barns

About the happy yard and

singing as the farm was home,

In the sun that is young once only,

Time let me play and be

Golden in the mercy of his means,

(b) A serious house on serious earth it is,

In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,

Are recognized,. and robed as destinies,

And that much can never be obsolete,

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Term-End Examination

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December, 2013

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7-•-4

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question No. 1 and any four from the remaining

questions.

1. Explain any two of the passages below with

reference to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments where necessary.

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(a) This widewe of which I telle yow my tale,

Syn thilke day that she was last a wyf,

In pacience ladde a ful symple lyf,

For litel was hir catel and hir rente

(b) There she beholding me with mylder looke,

Sought not to fly, but fearlesse still did bide :

Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke,

And with her owne goodwill hir fyrmly tyde.

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings

From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

(d) That is Heaven's part, our part

To murmur name upon name,

As a mother names her child

When sleep at last has come

On limbs that had run wild.

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P.T.O. 2.

Write a critical note on Chancer's art of portraiture

in The General Prologue.

Comment on the images of sensuality in the 20

Amoretti sonnets by spenser.

'The christian and classical elements are closely 20

interwoven in Lycidas'. Discuss.

Justify the sub-title of The Prelude as 'Growth of

a Poet's Mind'.

Write a critical appreciation of either 'Porphyria's 20

Lover' or 'The Bishop Orders His Tomb'.

Comment on the opposition of art and life and 20

youth and old age in 'Sailing to Byzantium'.

Write a critical note on Philip Larkin's celebration

of the common placeness of life.

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

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Term-End Examination

December, 2014

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1 and any four from the

remaining ones.

1. Explain with critical comments any two of the

following passages with reference to their

contents :

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(a)

Such wilt thou be to mee, who must

Like th' other foot, obliquely runne;

Thy firmness makes my circle just,

And makes me end, where I begunne.

(b)

Where was heard the mingled measure

From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !

(c)

She was the Goddess of the infant world,

By her in stature the tall Amazon

Had stood a pigmy's height, she would

have ta'en

Achilles by the hair and bent his neck.

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P.T.O. (d) What, 'tis past midnight, and you go the round

And here you catch me at an alley's end

Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar ?

Discuss Milton as a sonneteer.

Consider Herbert as a religious poet.

Make a critical analysis of The Prelude, Book I by

Wordsworth.

Examine Dylan Thomas's use of images.

Critically discuss Augustan Satire with special

references to John Dryden and Alexander Pope.

Consider the sympathies Oscar Wilde seeks to

arouse in 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.

Attempt a critical evaluation of 'Easter 1916' by

W.B. Yeats.

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

C) 9 9 e I December, 2015

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Attempt all the questions given below. Each

question carries 10 marks. Explain the passages

below with reference to their context, supplying

brief comments where necessary.

1. (a) "That fro the tyme that he first bigan

To riden out, he loved chivalric,

Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,"

(b) "I seye for me, it is a greet disese

Where as men han been in greet welthe

and ese,

To heeren of hire sodeyn fal, alias!

And the contrarie is joye and greet solas."

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P.T.O. 2.

(a) "Wake now my love, awake! for it is time;

The Rosy Morrie long since left Tithones bed,

All ready to her silver coche to clyme;

And Phoebus gins to shew his glorious hed."

(b) "There, in a meadow, by the rivers side,

A flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy,

All lovely daughters of the flood thereby,

With goodly greenish locks, all loose

untyde,"

(a) "I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we lov'd ? Were we not wean'd till

then ?

But suck'd on country pleasures,

childishly ?

Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den ?"

(b) "Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,

And Innocence, thy sister dear !

Mistaken long, I sought you then

In busy companies of men."

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2 4.

(a) "Lap me in soft Lydian Aires,

Married to immortal verse,

Such as the meeting soul may pierce

In notes, with many a winding bout"

(b) Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth

raise

(That last infirmity of noble minds)

To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes;

But the fair Guerdon when we hope to

find,

And think to burst out into sudden blaze,

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred

shears...

(a) "Besides his goodly fabric fills the eye,

And seems design'd for thoughtless

majesty :

Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade

the plain,

And, spread in solemn state, supinely

reign."

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P.T.O. (b) "Shut, shut the door, good John !

fatigu'd, I said,

Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.

The dog-star rages ! nay 'tis past a doubt,

All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out :"

(a) "Free as a bird to settle where I will.

What dwelling shall receive me ?

in what vale

Shall be my harbour ? underneath

what grove

Shall I take up my home ? ..."

(b) Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !

A savage place ! as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover !"

(a) "Under the self same bough, and heard as there

The birds, the fountains and the oceans hold

Sweet talk in music through the enamoured air.

And then a vision on my brain was rolled."

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4 (b) ".... Upon the sodden ground

His old right hand lay nerveless,

listless, dead,

Unsceptred; and his reahnless

eyes were closed;

While his bow'd head seem'd

list'ning to the Earth,"

(a) "The rain set early in to-night,

The sullen wind was soon awake,

It tore the elm-tops down for spite,

And did its worst to vex the lake:"

(b) Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity !

Draw round my bed: is Anselm

keeping back ?

Nephews — sons mine... ah God,

I know not ! Well –

She, men would have to be your

mother once,"

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P.T.O. 9.

(a) "I have met them at close of day

Coming with vivid faces

From counter or desk among grey

Eighteenth-century houses."

(b) "What are the roots that clutch,

what branches grow

Out of this stony rubbish ? Son of man,

You cannot say, or guess, for you know only

A heap of broken images,..."

10. (a) "They shall have stars at elbow and foot;

Though they go mad they shall be sane,

Though they-sink through the

sea they shall rise again;

Though lovers be lost love shall not;"

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6 (b) "Coming up England by a different line

For once, early in the cold new year,

We stopped, and, watching men

with number plates

Sprint down the platform to familiar gates,

"Why, Coventry !" I exclaimed. "I was

born here."

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June, 2012

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question No. 1 and any four from the remaining

questions.

1. Explain two of the passages below with reference

to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments :

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(a) The phoenix ridle hath more wit

By us, we two being one, are it

So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit,

Wee dye and rise the same, and prove

mysterious by this love.

(b) There dwels sweet love and constant

chastity

Unspotted fayth and comely womanhood,

Regard of honour and mild modesty,

The vertue raynes as queene in royal throne,

And giveth lawes alone.

Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,

Stranger to civil or religious rage,

The good man walled innoxious thro' his age.

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P.T.O. (d) When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see ?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?

The Host wanted to hear a story 'as may oure 20

hertes glade'. Does the Nonne Preestes Tale' make

you glad. Illustrate your answer with suitable

examples from chaucer's text.

Comment upon the Renaissance elements in the 20

poetry of Edumund Spenser.

Discuss 'Mac Flecknoe' as a satire.'

Discuss " Kubla Khan" as an allegorical poem.

Attempt a critical appreciation of "The Blessed 20

Damozel".

Attempt an analysis of either "Adam's Curse". 20

or 'Easter 1916'.

Would you agree with Samuel Johnson's view 20

that, 'Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with

truth, by calling imagination to the help of

reason'?

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June, 2013

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Explain ten passages given below with reference to their

contexts supplying brief critical comments where

necessary.

(a)

(b)

(a)

But for to tellen yow of his array,

His hors were gode, but he was not gay.

Of fustian he weved a gipoun,

Al bismotered with his habergeoun;

For he was late y-come from his viage,

And wente for to doon his pilgrimage.

Madame, the sentence of this Latin is -

Womman is mannes joye and al his bhs.

For whan I fele a-night your softe syde,

Al-be-it that I may nat on you ryde,

For that our perche is maad no narwe, alas !

So let us rest, sweet love, in hope of this

And cease till then our tymely ioyes to sing,

The woods no more us answer, nor our echo

ring.

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P.T.O. (b) Against the Brydale day,

which is not long :

Sweet Themmes runne softly,

till I end my song.

(a) But 0 alas, so long, so farre

Our bodies why do wee forbeare ?

They are ours, though they are not wee,

Wee are

The intelligences, they the Spheare

(b) When God at first made man,

Having a glass of blessings standing by ;

Let us (said he) pour on him all we can :

Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,

Contract into a span.

(a) Hence loathed Melancholy

Of cereberus, and blackest midnight born,

In stygian cave forlorn

'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and

sights unholy,

Find out som uncouth cell,

(b) For we were nursed upon the self same hill, 10

Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and

rill,

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2 5.

(a) Sh - alone my perfect image bears, 10

Mature in dullness from his tender years;

Sh - alone of all my sons is he

who stands confirm'd in full stupidity.

(b) Like cato, give his little senate laws, 10

And sit attentive to his own applause ;

(a) Tyger ! Tyger ! burning bright,

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ?

(b) No familiar shapes

Remained, no pleasant images of trees,

of sea or sky, no colours of green fields ;

But huge and mighty forms that do not live,

Like living men moved slowly through the

mind

By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.

(a) 'Whence I am, I partly seem to know,

And how and by what paths

I have been brought

To this dread pass, methink

even thou mayst guess;

Why this should be, my mind

can compass not;

(b) Instead of sweets, his ample palate took

Savour of poisonous brass and metal sick :

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P.T.O. 8.

(a) Central peace, mother of strength, 10

Ask those calm - hearted doers what they

when they have got their calm ! And is it

true,

Fire rankles at the heart of every globe ?

(b) I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave !

You need not clap your torches to my face.

(a) Why, what could she have done, being what

she is ?

Was there another Troy for her to burn ?

(b) Gang was sunken, and the limp leaves 10

Waited for rain, while the black clouds

Gathered far distant, over Himavant.

10. (a) I never ran to when I got depressed. 10

The boys all biceps and the girls all chest,

Their comic Ford, their farm where I could

'Really myself'.

(b) You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which 1 have lived like a foot

For thirty years.

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Term-End Examination

June, 2014

MEG-01 : British Poetry

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 1. Answer questions no 1 and any four from the remaining

questions.

Explain any two of the passages below with 10x2=20

reference to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments where necessary:

(a) A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,

That fro the tyme that he first bigan

To riden out, he loved chivalrie

Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisie.

(b) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till

then?

But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we i' the seaven sleepers den?

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless,

dead, unsceptred; and his realmless eyes

were closed;

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P.T.O. (d) Unreal city,

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so

many, I had not thought death had undone

so many.

What use does Chaucer make of the device

of pilgrimage?

Compare and contrast the Epithalamion and

the Prothalamion as wedding songs.

Discuss the satirical portraiture of

Mac Flecknoe.

Write a note on the elements of Romanticism

in 'Dejection : an ode'

Write a critical appreciation of either

D.G. Rossetti's 'The Blessed Damozel' or

Christina Rosseti's 'Goblin Market'

'What the Thunder said' in The Wasteland is

not only its best part but justifies the whole

poem.' Do you agree with this view? Give

reasons for your answer.

Comment on the themes of death and suicide

in the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

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June, 2015

17240

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1 and any four from the

remaining ones.

1. Explain with critical comments any two of the

following passages with reference to their

contexts :

10+10

(a) And specially from every shires ende

of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

That hem hath holpen whan that they

were seeke.

(b) But see the Virgin blest,

Hath laid her Babe to rest.

Time is our tedious Song should here

have ending.

(c)

Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze,

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings

From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

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P.T.O. (d) We two,' she said, 'will seek the groves

Where the lady Mary is

With her five handmaidens, whose names

Are five sweet symphonies.

Discuss Chaucer's handling of the fable in 'The

Nun's Priest's Tale'.

Consider 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell as a

didactic poem.

What 'truth and the sentiment' does 'An Epistle

to Dr. Arbuthnot' by Alexander Pope possess ?

Explain with suitable examples from the text.

5. Attempt a critical appreciation of 'The Triumph

of Life' by P.B. Shelley.

Discuss the chief features of the poetry of the

Pre-Raphaelite movement.

7. Discuss 'The Waste Land' as a modernist poem.

8. Bring out the theme of 'Church Going' by Philip

Larkin.

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Term-End Examination

241736 June, 2016

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Attempt all the questions given below. Each

question carries 10 marks. Explain the passages

below with reference to their contexts, supplying

brief comments where necessary.

1. (a) "A lovyere and a lusty bachelor,

With lokkes crulle as they were leyd

in presse.

Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.

Of his stature he was of evene lengthe,"

(b) "A povre wydwe somdeel stape in age,

Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage,

Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale.

This wydwe, of which I telle yow my tale,"

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P.T.O. 2.

(a) "My love is now awake out of her dreame(s),

And her fayre eyes like stars that

dimmed were

With darksome cloud, now shew theyr

goodly beams

Move bright then Hesperus his head

doth rere."

(b) "At length they all to mery London came,

To mery London, my most kyndly nurse,

That to me gave, this lifes first

native sourse

Though from another place I take

my name,"

(a) "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds

have showne,

Let us possesse our world, each hath

one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in

mine appeares,"

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2 (b) "When we have run our Passions' heat,

Love hither makes his best retreat.

The Gods, that mortal Beauty chase,

Still in a Tree did end their race :"

(a) "Methought I saw my late espoused Saint

Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,

Whom Joves great son to her glad

Husband gave,

Rescu'd from death by force through

pale and faint."

(b) "With such a horrid clang

As on mount Sinai rang

While the red fire, and smouldering

clouds out brake

The aged Earth agast ..."

(a)

"Sinking, he left his drugget robe behind,

Borne upwards by a subterranean wind :

The mantle fell to the young prophet's part,

With double portion of his father's art."

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P.T.O. (b) "No place is sacred, not the church is free,

Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me.

Then from the Mint walks forth the

man of rhyme,

Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time."

6. (a) "Keen as a Truant or a Fugitive,

But as a Pilgrim resolute, I took,

Even with the chance equipment of that hour,

The road that pointed toward the

chosen Vale."

(b) "And 'mid these dancing rocks at once

and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

Five miles meandering with a

mazy motion

Through wood and dale the sacred

river ran,"

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4 7. (a) "The chariot rolled, a captive multitude

Was driven; — all those who had

grown old in power

Or misery, — all who had their age subdued

By action or by suffering."

(b) "Then with a slow incline of his broad

breast,

Like to a diver in the pearly seas,

Forward he stoop'd over the airy shore,

And plung'd all noiseless into the deep night."

8. (a) "Her darling one wish would be heard.

And thus we sit together now,

And all night long we have not stirred,

And yet God has not said a word!"

(b) "And leave me in my church, the church

for peace,

That I may watch at leisure if he leers —

Old Gandolf, at me, from his onion-stone,

As still he envied me, so fair she was!"

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P.T.O. 9. (a) "Now and in time to be,

Wherever green is worn,

Are changed, changed utterly :

A terrible beauty is born."

(b) "Unreal City,

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

I had not thought death had undone so many."

10. (a) "Under the windings of the sea

They lying long shall not die windily;

Twisting on racks, when sinews give way,

Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break."

(b) "This was Mr. Bleaney's room. He stayed

The whole time he was at the Bodies, till

They moved him ! Flowered curtains,

thin and frayed,

Fall to within five inches of the sill,"

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Term-End Examination

1 D41

December, 2018

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Attempt all the questions below. Each question

carries 10 marks. Explain the passages with

reference to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments where necessary.

1. (a) He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen,

That seith, that hunters been nat holy men;

lie that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees

Is lykned til a fish that is waterlees,

(b) Wommennes counseils been ful ofte colde;

Wommennes counseil broghte us first to wo,

And made Adam fro paradys to go,

Ther-as he was ful mery, and wel at ese.

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P.T.O. 2.

(a) So Orpheus did for his owne bride,

So I unto my selfe alone will sing,

The woods shall to me answer

and my Eccho ring,

(b) Nor Jove himselfe, when he a

Swan would be

For love of Leda, whiter did appeare :

Yet Leda was as white as he,

Yet not so white as these, nor nothing neare;

So purely white they were,

(a)

But 0, self traytor, I do bring

The spider love, which transubstantiates all,

And can convert Manna to gall,

And that this place may thoroughly be

thought

Tru Paradise, I have the serpent brought.

(b) The Grave's a fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace.

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2 4. (a) Who would not sing for Lycidas ?

he knew

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

He must not float upon his watery bier

Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,

Without the meed of some melodious tear.

(b) Bosom'd high in tufted trees,

Where perhaps some beauty. lies,

The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.

5. (a) Near these a Nursery erects its head,

Where Queens are form'd, and

future Hero's bred;

Where unfledg'd Actors learn to

laugh and cry,

Where infant Punks their tender Voices try,

(b) Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope,

And curses wit, and poetry, and PoPe.

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P.T.O. 6.

(a) Ye Presences of Nature, in the sky

And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills !

And Souls of lonely places ! can I think

A vulgar hope was yours when ye employed

Such ministry,

(b) Tyger ! Tyger ! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ?

(a) All but the sacred few who could not tame

Their spirits to the conqueror — but as soon

As they had touched the world with

living flame,

Fled back like eagles to their native noon,

(b)

tell me, if this wrinkling brow,

Naked and bare of its great diadem,

Peers like the front of Saturn.

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4 8. (a) My first thought was, he lied in every word,

That hoary cripple, with malicious eye

Askance to watch the workings of his lie

(b) When round his head the aureole clings,

And he is clothed in white,

I'll take his hand and go with him

To the deep wells of light;

9. (a) Why, what could she have done, being

what she is ?

Was there another Troy for her to burn ?

(b) By the waters of Leman I sat down

and wept ...

Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song.

Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not

loud or long.

But at my back in a cold blast I hear

The rattle of bones, and chuckle spread

from ear to ear.

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P.T.O. 10. (a) Power of some sort or other will go on

In games, in riddles, seemingly at random;

But superstition, like belief must die,

And what remains when disbelief

has gone ?

Grass, weedy pavement,

brambles, buttress, sky.

A shape less recognizable each week,

A purpose more obscure.

(b) Dying

Is an art, like everything else.

I do it exceptionally well.

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Term-End Examination

June, 2011

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question No. 1 and any four from the remaining

questions.

1. Explain any two of the passages below with

reference to their contexts, supplying brief critical

comments where necessary.

10+10

(a) 0 Chauntecleer, accursed be that morwe,

That thou into that yerd flaugh fro the bemes !

Thou were ful we] y - warned by thy dremes,

That thilke day was perilous to thee.

(b) Ne let the fame of any be enuide,

So orpheus did for his owne bride,

So I vnto my selfe alone will sing,

The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

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1 (c) 'But not the praise',

Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd my

trembling ears :

'Fame is no plant that grows on

montal soil,

Nor in the glistering foil....

(d) Porphyria's love ; she guessed not how

Her darling one wish would be heard.

And thus we sit together now,

And all night long we have not stirred.

Name the three major sources of chaucer's

vocabulary . How does each source contribute

to his poetry ?

Write a critical appreciation of either 20

'To his coy Mistress' or 'The Garden.'

4. Attempt a critique of John Dryden as a poet.

What according to Blake is the function of 20

poetry?

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2 6.

'The passion he represents is lava' hot from the

crater... `Do you agree with this evaluation of

Browning's poetry by George Santayana ?

Discuss Yeats's use of history in either 20

'Easter 1916' on 'Lapis Lazuli'.

With reference to the poems of sylvial plath that

you have read, trace the development of her

persona from a docile, submissive woman into a

fury raging for revenge.

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Term-End Examination

015676 June, 2018

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1 and any four from the

remaining questions.

1. Explain any two of the following passages with

reference to their contexts and supply brief

critical comments where necessary :

10+10=20

(a)

Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne ?

A goodly table of pure yvory,

All spred with juncats, fit to entertayne

The greatest Prince with pompous roialty.

(b)

Thou by the Indian Ganges' side.

Should'st Rubies find : I by the Tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the Flood;

And you should if you please refuse

Till the Conversion of the Jews.

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P.T.O. (c)

Ring out, ye crystal spheres !

Once bless our human ears,

If ye have power to touch our senses so;

And let your silver chime

Move in melodious time;

(d)

He enter'd but he enter'd full of wrath;

His flaming robes stream'd out

beyond his heels,

And gave a roar, as if of earthly fire,

That scar'd away the meek ethereal Hours

(e)

Why, what could she have done, being

what she is ?

Was there another Troy for her to burn ?

Chaucer wrote, `[T]he wordes moote be cosyn to

the dede'. Comment on Chaucer's poetry in light

of his aim.

'Metaphysical poetry, according to Herbert

Grierson, is a poetry which has been inspired by

a philosophical conception of the Universe and

the role assigned to the human spirit in the great

drama of existence.' Examine this opinion in the

light of your reading of any two of the following

poets : Donne, Herbert, Marvell.

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2 4.

Evaluate The Triumph of Life in the light of the

opinion that "Shelley achieves the sublime".

Would you agree with the point of view that

Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol

suggests the futility of Christian ethics and loss

of faith in Christianity ? Illustrate your answer

with suitable examples from the text of the poem.

Write a critique of W.B. Yeats as a modernist

poet.

Critically evaluate any one of the following

poems :

(a)

`Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'

(b)

'A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning'

(c)

'Mr Bleaney'

(d)

'The Colossus'

(e)

'Fern Hill'

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Term-End Examination

December, 2016

MEG

1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 100

Note: Answer question no. .1 and any three from the

remaining questions.

1. Explain any four of the passages below with

reference to their contexts supplying brief critical

comments where necessary :

4x10=40

(a)

His comb was redder than the fyn coral,

And batailed, as it were a castel wal;

His byle was blak, and as the jeet it shoon;

Lyk asur were his legges, and his toon.

(b)

There, in a Meadow, by the Rivers side,

A Flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy,

All lovely Daughters of the Flood thereby,

With goodly greenish locks all loose untyde.

(c)

But at my back I alwaies hear

Times winged Chariot hurrying near

And yonder all before a lye

Desart,s of vast Eternity.

P.T.O.

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With ravished ears

The monarch hears,

Assumes the god,

Affects to nod,

And seems to shake the spheres.

(e)

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see ?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?

(0 So, let the blue lump poise between my knees,

Like God the father's globe on both his hands.

(g) Was that' my friend smiled,

`where you "have your roots" ?'

No, only where my childhood was unspent.

I wanted to retort, just where I started.

2. Write a critique of one of the following poets :

(a)

John Donne

(b)

William Wordsworth

(c)

T.S. Eliot

(d)

Sylvia Plath

3. Analyse the use of time and temporality in

Spenser's Epithalamion and Prothalamion. 20

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2 4.

Assess Alexander Pope's An Epistle to

Dr. Arbuthnot as a piece of satire.

"The peculiar quality of Romanticism lies in this

that in apparently detaching us from the real

world, it restores us to reality at a higher point."

Discuss with reference to the poetry of the

Romantic Revival in England.

Critically comment either on `Porphyria's Lover'

or `Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Write a note on the elements of magic, mythology

and symbolism in Yeats's poetry.

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