Poetry

Course: M.A. Code: IJ-559 Branch: English Year: 2022

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IJ-559

M.A. 1st Semester (Reg/Pvt/ATKT)

Examination, 2022-23

English

Paper - I

Poetry

Time: 3 Hours] [Maximum Marks : Reg.= 85 Pvt.= 100

Note :- Attempt all questions.

SECTION - 'A'

Objective Type Questions

8×1=8

1. Choose the correct alternative :
  1. Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning "Love conquers All" :
    1. The Prioress
    2. The wife of Bath
    3. The Monk
    4. The Squire
  2. William Shakespeare belongs to :
    1. The Romantic Age
    2. The Transition Age
    3. Elizabethan Age
    4. Classical Age
  3. John Milton has become blind at the age of.........
    1. 24
    2. 34
    3. 44
    4. 54
  4. "The Flea" is a poem about :
    1. Seduction
    2. Death
    3. His Wife
    4. A Bird
  5. During what time period did John Dryden write :
    1. The Renaissance
    2. Restoration
    3. Victorian
    4. Post Modern
  6. The chief angel protecting Belinds was :
    1. Gnome
    2. Catherine
    3. Ariel
    4. Spleen
  7. "The Progress ofo Poesy" is a.......:
    1. Horatian
    2. Irregular
    3. Pindaric
    4. None of these
  8. William Collins was born in......... :
    1. 1721
    2. 1731
    3. 1741
    4. 1751

SECTION - 'B'

Short Answer Type Questions

3×7=21

2. Explain with reference to the context any Three of the following:-

  1. But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
    He taught and first he followed it himself.

    OR

    Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stell'd,
    The beauty's form in table of my heart.

  2. Better to reign is Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

    OR

    And if some lover, such as we
    Have heard this dialogue of one,
    Let him still marl, us, he shall see
    Small change, when we' are to bodies gove.

  3. In Prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute
    Through all the Realins of Nonsense, absolute

    OR

    Man's feeble race what ills await,
    Labour and Penury, the racks of Pain,
    Disease, and sorrow's weeping train,
    And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate !

SECTION - 'C'

Long Answer Type Questions

4×14=56

Note :- Answer the following questions in detail.

3.
From your study of the prologue, what impression do you gather about Chaucer's skill in character portrayal ?
OR
Write a note on Shakespeare as a Sonneteer with special reference to the sonnets prescribed.
4.
Write a note on John Donne as a poet of love with special reference to his poems prescribed.
OR
Write a note on Milton's grand style and use of epic similes in his epic 'Paradise Lost', Book I
5.
Discuss Donne as a satirist with special reference to 'Macflecnoe'
OR
Write a note on "Rape of the cock" as a mock-heroic epic.
6.
Critically evaluate William collin's poem 'Ode to simplicity'.
OR
Attempt a critical appreciation of Gray's 'The Progress of Poesy'
OR
William Blave's poem 'A Poision Tree'.

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