[BA 3rd Sem Question Papers, Dibrugarh University, 2015, English, Major, Reading Poetry]
UNIT – I
1. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Discuss how Shakespeare treats the themes of time and decay in his Sonnet Nos. 60 and 65.
- How does John Donne convince himself and his beloved not a mourn their separation in the poem, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?
- How does George Herbert represent a visual conflict between a rebellious self and the God in the poem, The Collar?
UNIT – II
2. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Prepare a note on the use of epic similes in Book I of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
- Discuss the features of epic poem with special reference to the Book I of Paradise Lost.
UNIT – III
3. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Discuss how Keats presents the paradox of art and life in the poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- Critically evaluate the treatment of the theme of nature’s beneficial influence on human mind in Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
UNIT – IV
4. Answer any one of the following: 12
- “Browning’s the Last Rise Together is not a poem about passion but about the psychology of passion.” Discuss.
- Present a critical evaluation of Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach.
UNIT – V
5. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Discuss how Yeats describes an apocalyptic vision marking the end of a civilization and the birth of a new one in The Second Coming.
- “Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi is a symbolic representation of the theme of Wandering human souls in search of spirituality.” Discuss.
UNIT – VI
6. Explain, with reference to the context, any two of the following: 6x2=12
- At the end we preferred to travel
all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears,
saying
That this was all folly.
- I and my mistress, side by side
Shall be together, breathe and ride,
So, one day more am I deified.
Who knows but the world may and
tonight?
- Heard melodies are sweet, but those
unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes,
play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more
endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
- A mind not to be changed by place or
time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of
Heaven.
UNIT – VII
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7. Answer any eight of the following: 1x8=8
- What does ‘eye of the heaven’ mean in the Shakespearean Sonnet No. 18?
- Into how many books was the first version of Paradise Lost (1667) divided?
- Who is Belial in Book 1 of Paradise Lost?
- In which book of Wordsworth was Tintern Abbey first published?
- “For thou art with me here upon the banks.” Whom does ‘thou’ refer to in Tintern Abbey?
- What does ‘unravished bride’ refer to in Ode on a Grecian Urn?
- In the poem, The Second Coming, Yeats predicts the end of which civilization?
- Who is the third of the Magi after Balthazar and Gasper?
- What is the title of the poem collection in which Browning’s The Last Ride Together was published?
- Which poem of John Keats contains the expression ‘beauty is truth, truth beauty’?
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