B.A. (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
Notes: (i) Answer all questions.
(ii) 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: 8x2=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) They voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet
From swigged , 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
Infinity suffering thing
UNIT-B
2. Discuss ‘Tintern Abbey’ as a typical deductive poem (16)
Or
Examine ‘Adonais’ as a Conventional pastoral elegy. (16)
UNIT-C
3. Analyze ‘When we Two Parted’ as a Love poem. (16)
Or
Discuss ‘Tennyson’s Tilthounus’ as a dramatic monologue (16)
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’ (16)
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