MEG-1 Block Wise Important questions based on 15 years question papers
Dec & June 2021: below the line dec 2020 & onwards Questions from 2011-2024
Block-1 Orientation For the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer d3 d2
Attempt an analysis of the portraits of the prioress, the monk, the Friar, and the wife of Bath.
Write a critical note on Chaucer’s art of characterisation in ‘The Prologue to Canterbury Tales’.
Write a critical note on Chancer's art of portraiture in The General Prologue.
Write an essay on Chaucer's comic vision in the 'Prologue' to The canterbury Tales.
Do you think that the three major sources of Chaucer’s vocabulary contributed to his poetry ? Elucidate with examples.
Name the three major sources of chaucer's vocabulary . How does each source contribute to his poetry ?
Chaucer wrote, `[T]he wordes moote be cosyn to the dede'. Comment on Chaucer's poetry in light of his aim
Discuss Chaucer's handling of the fable in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'.
The Host wanted to hear a story 'as may oure hertes glade'. Does the Nonne Preestes Tale' make you glad. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples from chaucer's text.
Block-2 Undertaking A Study of Spenser j4 j4 d2
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.
Comment on the images of sensuality in the Amoretti sonnets by Spenser. 2
What does the term renaissance mean? Identify some of the key factor responsible for the spread of the renaissance in Europe.2
Compare and contrast the ‘Epithalamion’ and ‘Prothalanion’ as wedding songs.
Critique Spenser
What was the role of the court in the shaping of English Renaissance Literature ? Your answer should be based on your understanding of the period.
Comment upon the Renaissance elements in the poetry of Edumund Spenser.
Identify the most influential factors that shaped Spenser's career as a poet. Illustrate with examples from the poems you have read.
Compare Epithalamion and Prothalamion as wedding songs.
Compare and contrast "The Epithalamion" and "The Prothalamion".
Block-3 The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert j3 j3 d2 d2 j2 d4
Critical appreciation a nocturnal
Critical appreciation redemption
Critical appreciation The garden 2
critical appreciation Affection
Critique – Andrew marwell
Critique Herbert
Write a detailed note on john Donnes poetic excellence
Examine the main characteristics of metaphysical poetry, giving examples from the poems in your course.
What do you understand by the term Metaphysical Poetry ? Give the characteristics of metaphysical poetry.
What is a ‘conceit’ ? Cite examples of ‘conceit’ from Donne’s poems and explain it.
Write a detailed note on John Donne's poetic medium.
Assess Andrew Marvell either as a political poet or as a writer of philosophical and love poetry.
Consider 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell as a didactic poem.
Consider Herbert as a religious poet.
Write a critical appreciation of either 'To his coy Mistress' or 'The Garden.'
Critically Evaluate - A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning', the Garden
'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.
Block-4 Studying Milton j4 d3 j3 d2 j2
Would you agree that Puritanism influenced Milton’s life attempt an answer based on your understanding of woks you have studied.
Discuss Milton as a sonneteer.
Which of these two poems — ‘‘L’Allegro’’ and ‘‘Il Penseroso’’, in your opinion represents Milton’s own views more accurately ?
‘The Christian and classical elements are closely interwoven in Lycidas.’ Discuss.
Analyze the different thematic strands in ‘Lycidias’.
Examine some of the personifications Milton employs in ‘Lycidas’. Would you say that they add to the sense of lament in the poem ?
Identify some of the primary influences and the main literary sources to be found in Milton’s early poetic works.
What were some of the cultural and political factors that led to the making of Milton as the first major English epic poet ?
Block-5 The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden and Pope j4 d3 j3 j3 d2 d2
Can “Mac Flecknoe” be called a comic fantasy ? Comment.
Discuss Mac flecknoe as a mock heroic poem.
Discuss the satirical portraiture of Mac Flecknoe.
Critique Pope
Critical appreciation Epistle to Arbuthnot
Would you consider Alexander Pope’s ‘An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’ to be a satire ? Discuss.
critical appreciation Alexander’s feast/Power of music
Why do you think satire became popular in the age of Dryden & Pope?
Was Dryden justified in attacking the metaphysical poets ? Justify your stance with suitable examples.
Critically discuss the satiric elements in the poetry of John Dryden and Alexander Pope.
Would you consider satire to be great poetry ? Discuss with reference to Mac Flecknoe.
Discuss 'Mac Flecknoe' as a satire.'
Discuss "Mac Flecknoe" as a mock-heroic poem.
What 'truth and the sentiment' does 'An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' by Alexander Pope possess ? Explain with suitable examples from the text.
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.
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.
Critically discuss Augustan Satire with special references to John Dryden and Alexander Pope.
Attempt a critique of John Dryden as a poet.
Block-6 The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge j4 j4 d2 d2 d4
Critique Blake
Discuss “The Prelude” as an autobiographical poem. 2
Make a critical analysis of ‘The Prelude’, Book-I by William Wordsworth.
Write a detailed answer on Coleridge's ctribution to poetry and literature.
Critical Appreciation Kubla khan
Critically comment on the elements of Romanticism in ‘Dejection : An Ode’.
Discuss the Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience as ‘Contrary states of the Human soul’
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'scriticism in the light of your reading of Blake.
What according to Blake is the function of poetry?
Bring out the elements of mysticism, if any, in the poetry of William Blake.
Attempt a critical appreciation of 'The Triumph of Life' by P.B. Shelley.
Make a critical analysis of The Prelude, Book I by Wordsworth.
Critical Appreciation - c) "The Sick Rose" (d), "London"
Discuss " Kubla Khan" as an allegorical poem.
What early imitations of Romanticism do you find in Robert Burns ?
Explain the salient features of Romanticism based on your understanding of the Romantic poets.
Comment on the uniqueness of Byron and Shelley as poets.
Critical Appreciation - "The Triumph of Life" (b) "Hyperion : A Fragment"
Evaluate The Triumph of Life in the light of the opinion that "Shelley achieves the sublime".
Comment on the epic elements in 'Hyperion : A Fragment'.
Justify the sub-title of The Prelude as 'Growth of a Poet's Mind'.
Discuss The prelude as an autobiographical poem.
Block-8 The Victorian Poets: Browning, D.G. and Christina Rossetti & Oscar Wilde j3 j3 d2 d2 j2 j2 d4
Critical appreciation ballad of the reading gaol
Comment on PRB's treatment of Women based on My sisters sleep and the blessed damozel. 2
Who were the pre-Raphaelites ? Examine the works of any one pre-Raphaelite poet.
Critical Appreciation The blessed damozel 2
critical appreciation – Goblin Market
Critically evaluate Sordello at Mantua
Critique – Oscar wilde
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
Attempt a critical appreciation of "The Blessed Damozel".
Critically evaluate – The blessed Damozel
Critically appreciate either "Porphyria's Lover" or 'The Bishop orders his Tomb at St. Praseed's church'.
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.
Consider the sympathies Oscar Wilde seeks to arouse in 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.
Critically evaluate – Child Roland to the dark tower came, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church
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.2
Discuss the chief features of the poetry of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
'The passion he represents is lava' hot from the crater... `Do you agree with this evaluation of Browning's poetry by George Santayana ?
Block-9 The Modernist Poets d3 d3 j3 j3 d2 j2 j2 j2 j2 d4 d4 j4
Comment on the contrast of art and life; and youth and old age in ‘Sailing to Byzantium’.
Critical Appreciation Easter 1916
critical appreciation lapis lazuli
Critical Appreciation Sailing to Byzantium
Critically evaluate the poem ‘Easter 1916’ by W. B. Yeats.
How does W. B. Yeats make use of history in his poems ? Illustrate with examples from the poems in your course.
How are magic and symbolism related/connected in W.B. Yeats’ poetry
Comment on Yeats’ use of the theatrical metaphor in his poetry.?
What do you think is Yeats’ contribution to modern poetry ?
Attempt an analysis of Eliot’s poetic vision in the “The Waste Land”.
Discuss ‘The Waste Land’ as a modernist poem.
Bring out the Imagist elements in Eliot and Pound.
Bring out the imagist elements in TS Eliot with reference to the wasteland.
Examine the use of myth and symbolism in T.S. Eliot’s ‘‘The Waste Land’’.
Critique – Eliot
critical appreciation – The Waste Land
Comment on Yeats' poetic use of his ambivalent attitude to the Easter Rebellion in "Easter 1916".
Attempt a critical evaluation of 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats.
Attempt a critical appreciation of either 'Easter 1916' or 'No Second Troy'.
Attempt an analysis of either "Adam's Curse". or 'Easter 1916'.
Discuss Yeats's use of history in either 'Easter 1916' on 'Lapis Lazuli'.
Write a critique of W.B. Yeats as a modernist poet.
Comment on the influence of Indian scriptures on T.S. Eliot's poetry with special reference to The Waste Land.
Examine J.S. Eliot's use of, mythology in 'The Waste Land'.
Assess the contribution of the poets of the First World War to modern British poetry.
Block-10 Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin & Sylvia Plath d3 d3 j3 j3 d2 d2 j2 J2
Critical appreciation – poem in october
Critical appreciation I remember 2
Why is larkin known as an uncommon poe for the common man?Attempt a detailed discussion based on your reading of his work.
Analyse the theme of ‘Church Going’ by Philip Larkin.
critical appreciation At grass
Critique – Dylan Thomas
critical appreciation - And Death Shall Have No Dominion’’
Critically comment on the themes of death and suicide in the poetry of Sylvia Plath. 2
critical appreciation – Fern hill/ Purdah
Critically evaluate Lady Lazarus
Write a note on Dylan Thomas’ use of imagery with reference to the poems you have studied
Critically evaluate - 'Mr Bleaney' Death shall have no Dominion
Examine Dylan Thomas's use of images.
Bring out the theme of 'Church Going' by Philip Larkin.
Write a critical note on Philip Larkin's celebration of the common placeness of life.
Show, how death and suicide are important themes in Sylvia Plath's poems.
How does Confessional Poetry differ from the kind of poetry that was written in the early decades of the twentieth century ?
Critically evaluate - (d) 'The Colossus' (e) 'Fern Hill', Lady Lazarus
General Questions –
Poetry is 'speech framed' to be heard for its own sake and interest even over and above its interest of meaning." Examine.
Would you agree with Samuel Johnson's view that, 'Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason'?
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.
Dec 2024 – Renaissance 2 - , Dryden & pope’s age 5, Donne 3, TS eliot – 9, Sylvia-0, (23590 36899)
June 2024 Spencer-2(Amoretti, Epi & Pro), Milton-4(lycidas), Coledridge-6(dejection), wordsworth-6(prelude), Alexander vs pope-5, eliot(wasteland)-9 (235669)
Dec 2023 Chaucer-1(CBT), Yeats-9(bzentium, easter 1916), Dryden(Mac flecknoe)-5, Sylvia plath, Phiilip Larkin(chuch going)-10,milton-4, (1459900)
June 2023 Metaphysical poet-3, Milton-4(lycidas), Pope-5(epistle), Byron&shelly-7, PRB-8(treatement of women based o sisters sleep & blessed damozl) Critique-
Andrew marwell, eliot,wilde, Dylan, Critical appreciation – Affection,Alexanders feast drden, waste land, Fenhill purdah (34578 3890 3590)
Dec 2022 Chaucer-1, Dryden vs metaphysical (3&5), Milton-4(lycidas), Wordsworth-6(the prelude), Yeats-9, Critique – Spenser, Herbert, Pope, Blake, Critically evaluate- Sodello(browing), blessed damozel, I rememember, Lady lazarus (3+5 1469 2356 8899)
June 2022 – Metaphsical-3, Milton-4(L’allegro+Il pensoroso), PRB-8, Yeats*2-9, Eliot-9(wasteland), critical apprcitn- at grass, death shall have(Dylan), lapis lazli, gobline mkt (348999 8900)
“ I “ = Each “I” denotes the number of times this topic came in the previous 10 years' paper. IIII = 5
Block -1
Chaucer - II
CT - IIII IIII IIII
NPT - IIII IIII
Block - 2
Spenser - III
Amoretti sonnet - I
Sonnet - 77 - II
67 - I
Epi and Pro - IIII III
Epi - IIII
Pro - IIII
Block - 3
Metaphysical poets - III
John Donne - II
Twicknam garden - II
A valediction - IIII
The Good Morrow - III
The canonization - I
The ecstasy - I
Herbert - I
Redemption - II
The Pulley - II
Andrew Marvell - I
The Garden - IIII
To his coy mistress - IIII
Horatio Ode - I
Block - 4
Milton - II
Sonnet-23 - II
On the morning of Christ’s nativity - IIII
Lycidas - IIII III
Il Pensiero - II
L'allegro - III
Block - 5
Satire age - I
Alexander Pope
Epistle to arbuthnot - IIII IIII
Dryden - III (restoration age)
Mac flecknoe - IIII IIII
Alexander's feast - I
Block - 6
Wordsworth
The Prelude - IIII IIII III
Keats:
Hyperion - IIII
Blake: III
London - I
Tyger - IIII
The sick rose - I
Coleridge
Dejection ode - II
Kubla khan - IIII
Block - 7
PB Shelly
The Triumph of life - IIII IIII II
Keats
Hyperion - IIII
Block- 8
Robert Browning - I
Porphyria's lover - IIII IIII
Childe roland to dark knight came - III
Bishop orders his Tomb - IIII IIII
Fra Lippo lippi - II
Sordello - I
Rosetti
The blessed Damozel - IIII I
The goblin Market - I
Oscar Wild
The Ballad of the reading Gaol - II
"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. - II- Answer is in IGNOU Book- Block-9 Modernist Poets Unit-42 in 42.2.
Block - 9
WB Yeats - II
Sailing to Byzantium - II
Easter 1916 - IIII IIII
Lapis Lazuli - II
No second troy - IIII
Adam’s curse - I
TS Elliot:
The waste land - IIII IIII III
Block - 10
Dylan Thomas
And Death shall have no Dominion - IIII
Fern Hill - II
Philip Larkin - I
Church Going - III
I remember - III
Mr. Bleaney - II
Toads - I
Sylvia - IIII
Lady Lazarus - II
Daddy - I
The Colossus - I
Poets - Chaucer - II, Spenser - II , Metaphysical poets - III, John Donne - I, Herbert - I, Andrew Marvell - I, Milton - I, Blake- III, Browning-I, Yeats - I, Sylvia Plath - III, Dryden and restoration age.
Satirical Poets, Renaissance, Pre Raphaelite, Romanticism - II, Metaphysical poetry, Major sources of Chaucer's vocabulary, Victorian poets, romanticism and robert burn, First world war and poetry, Confessional poetry,
List of important Poets and their poems. PART-1
Block 1 - Chaucer 1343 - 1400 (Medieval Poet)
Poems -
1) Prologue to Canterbury Tales
2) Nonnes Preestes Tale
There is also a modernised version of both in your block.
Block 2 - Edmund Spenser 1552 - 1599 (Renaissance Poet)
Poems -
1) Text of the Sonnets (Amoretti) XXXIIII, LXVII, LXXVII
2) Epithalamion
3) Prothalamion
Block 3 - John Donne 1572 - 1631 (Metaphysical Poet)
Poems -
1) The Flea
2) The Canonization
3) A Valediction : forbidding mourning
4) Twicknam Garden
5) The Good Morrow
6) The Extasie
7) A Nocturnal upon S. Lucies day
8 ) Batter my heart
9) A Hymn to God the father
Block 4 - John Milton 1608 - 1674 (The Late Renaissance)
Poems -
1) On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
2) Lycidas
3) L’Allegro
4) Penseroso
5) Sonnet 19/23
Block 5 - Dryden/Pope (Neoclassical Poets)
Poet 1 - John Dryden 1631 - 1700
Poems -
1) Mac Flecknoe or A satire upon the true Blue Protestant Poet - T. S.
2) Alexander’s Feast or the power of Music an ode in honour of St. Cecilia’s Day
Poet 2 - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744
Poem -
1) Satire and Epistles Prologue - An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
List of important Poets and Poems Part 2.
Block 6 - William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 (Romantic Poet)
Poem -
1) The Prelude
Block 7 - Percy B. Shelley 1792 - 1822 (Romantic 2)
Poem -
1) The Triumph of Life
Block 8 - Robert Browning 1812 - 1889 (Victorian Poet)
Poems -
1) Sordello at Mantua
2) Porphyria’s Lover
3) The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
4) Childe Roland to Dark Tower Came
5) Fra Lippo Lippi
Block 9 - Yeats, Eliot (Modernist Poets)
Poet 1 - William Butler (W. B.)Yeats 1865 - 1939
Poems -
1) Adam’s Curse
2) No Second Troy
3) Easter 1916
4) Sailing to Byzantium
5) Lapiz Lazuli
Poet 2 - Thomas Stearns (T. S.)Eliot 1888 - 1965
Poems -
1) The Waste Land 1922
2) The Burial of the Dead
3) A Game of Chess
4) The Fire Sermon
5) Death by Water
Block 10 - Philip Larkin 1922 - 1985 (Modernist & Post Modernist)
Poems -
1) I Remember, I Remember
2) Toads
3) Mr. Bleaney
4) Church Going
5) The Whitsun Weddings
6) A Grass
7) Toads Revisited
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