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MN-559
M.A. Ist Semester (Reg/Pvt/ATKT)
Examination, 2023-24
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 :
William Shakespeare has written..........sonnets:
(a) 144
(b) 154
(c) 164
(d) 174
Which pilgrim has a forked beard :
(a) The Summoner
(b) The Merchant
(c) The Reeve
(d) The Physician
The use of conceits is especially characteristic of what kind of poetry:
(a) Petrarchan
(b) Elizabethan
(c) Shakespearean
(d) Metaphysical
Which one of the following is not a work of John Milton:
(a) Lycidas
(b) Il Penseroso
(c) Samson Agonistes
(d) All for love
John Dryden is usually classified as a...........poet :
(a) Metaphysical
(b) Romantic
(c) Classical
(d) Victorian
"The Rape of the Lock" was first published in.........:
(a) 1702
(b) 1712
(c) 1722
(d) 1732
Thomas Gray is regretted as a precursor of the.........:
(a) Elizabethan Age
(b) Neo-classical Age
(c) Romantic Age
(d) Victorian Age
What was Blake's first published volume of poetry :
(a) Songs of Experience
(b) Songs of Innocence
(c) Poetical sketches
(d) Lyrical Ballads
SECTION - 'B'
Short Answer Type Questions
3×7=21
2.
Explain with reference to the context the following passages, adding suitable critical comments.
"See how Dame Fortune quickly changes side,
And robs her enemy of hope and pride'"
OR
"If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
In injurious distance should not stop my way."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n"
OR
"So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love"
"What dire offence from an'rous causes springs.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things."
OR
"So long, sure-found beneath the sylvan shed,
Shall fancy, friendship, Science, rose tipp'd Health,
Thy gentlest influence own,
And hymn thy fay'rite name:"
SECTION - 'C'
Long Answer Type Questions
4×14=56
3.
Write a note on Shakespeare as writer of sonnets with special reference to his sonnets prescribed.
OR
Write a note on the use of humour and irony in Chaucer's 'Pro-logue to the Canterbury Tales'.
4.
Give a critical appreciation of John Donne's 'A valediction for-bidden Mourning'.
5.
Evaluate the chief qualities of Pope as a satirist with special reference too 'The Rape of the lock'.
OR
Write a note on Dryden as a satirist with special reference to his poem 'Mac Fleecnoe'.
6.
Write a critical appreciation of Gray's poem 'Progress of Poesy'.
OR
Give a critical appreciation of Blake's poem 'On Another sor-row' or Collin's poem 'Ode to simplicity'.