RGU Question Paper English Semester VI 2022: Poetry from the Romantic to the Modern Age

 

2022

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) No voice, no lute, no pipe, no incense sweet
From chain-swung censer teeming; 

No shrine, no grove, no oracle, no heat 

Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming.

(b) Lofty designs must close in like effects:
Loftily lying,
Leave him still loftier than the world suspects,
Living and dying.

(c) Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; 

The worlds revolve like ancient women 

Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

Unit-B

2. Discuss Coleridge's treatment of supernaturalism in Kubla Khan. 16

Or

Tintern Abbey is a complex meditation on the value of nature as a source of healing and philosophical wisdom. Discuss. 16

Unit-C

3. Tithonus is a poem of age and mortality. Discuss. 16

Or

Examine Ode to Psyche as a typical Ode of Keats. 16

Unit-D

4. A Summer Night by Arnold is a poem of melancholy and anticipation. Elucidate. 16

Or

Give a critical appreciation of the poem, God's Grandeur by Hopkins. 16

Unit-E

5. Critically appreciate Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats. 16

Or

Examine Owen as a typical War poet with special reference to Insensibility. 16