[BA 3rd Sem Question Papers, Dibrugarh University, 2013, English, Major, Reading Poetry]
UNIT – I
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 12
- Attempt a critical appreciation of ‘Sonnet 65’ composed by William Shakespeare.
- Discuss John Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning as a Metaphysical poem.
- The poem The Collar is a representation of a spiritual conflict in the poet’s mind. Explain.
UNIT – II
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 12
- What do you mean by epic simile? Comment on the epic similes used by Milton in Paradise Lost (Book I).
- Critically analyze the character of Satan from your reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost (Book I).
UNIT – III
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 12
- How does Wordsworth present the relation between Nature and Man in his poem, Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey? Discuss.
- Critically analyze the statement that Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is an important expression of Wordsworth’s ‘faith in the restorative and associative power of nature’.
- Write a critical note on the central theme of Keats’ poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
UNIT – IV
4. Answer any one of the following questions: 12
- How does the speaker in Robert Browning The Last Ride Together rationalize his failure? Discuss.
- Does the poem Dover Beach embody typical Victorian ideas and concerns? Explain.
- Explain how the poem Dover Beach reveals the dilemma related to religious faith on the one hand and power of human love on the other.
UNIT – V
5. Answer any one of the following questions: 12
- The poem The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats presents a vision of Christianity superseded. Discuss.
- Critically appreciate Yeats’ The Second Coming.
- How is the poem The Journey of the Magi a reflection of the inner turmoil of the Magi in their journey to greet the newly-born Christ? Explain.
UNIT – VI
6. Critically analyze any two of the following: 6x2=12
- But as I rav’d and grew more fierce
and wilde
At every word,
Me thought I heard one calling, child!
And I reply’d, My Lord.
- Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme
- The instant made eternity, ---
And heaven just prove that I and she
Ride, rides together, forever ride?
- …. There was a birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had
seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different;
this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like
Death, our death.
UNIT - VII
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7. Give very brief answer to any eight of the following questions: 1x8=8
- When and where was Shakespeare born?
- Who made the following remark regarding Metaphysical Poetry?
“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.”
- What does the word ‘Collar’, in the poem The Collar by George Herbert, symbolize?
- When Lyrical Ballads was first published?
- Who is the author of Endymion?
- In which volume of poems was Browning’s The Last Ride Together published?
- Name a prose work written by Matthew Arnold.
- To which ancient civilization does Yeats refer in his poem, The Second Coming?
- From whose account does Eliot draw his poem, The Journey of the Magi?
- When was Minton’s Paradise Lost published?
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