RGU Question Paper English Semester VI 2020: Poetry from the Romantic to the Modern Age

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BA (VI Semester) Examination

ENGLISH

Paper : BENG–609 (M)

( Poetry from the Romantic to the Modern Age )

Full Marks : 80

Pass Marks : 35%

Time : Three Hours

Note : 1. Answer all questions. 

 2. The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions.

Unit—A

1. Explain with reference to the context any two of the following : 8×2=16

(a) The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.

(b) Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet From swinged censer teeming; Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming.

(c) I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling : The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.

Unit—B

2. Discuss Tintern Abbey as a typical nature poem. 16 

Or 

Examine Adonais as a conventional pastoral elegy. Or Describe the grandeur of Xanadu in the poem, Kubla Khan.

Unit—C

3. Analyze When We Two Parted as a typical love poem. 16 

Or 

Discuss Tennyson’s Tithonus as a dramatic monologue.

Unit—D

4. God’s Grandeur is Hopkins’ surrender to divinity. Elucidate. 16 

Or 

Critically appreciate A Grammarian’s Funeral.

Unit—E

5. Bring out the central idea of the poem, Easter 1916. 16 

Or 

Critically appreciate Owen’s Insensibility.