BEGE-106 UNDERSTANDING POETRY - June, 2019 Question Paper ELECTIVE COURSE: ENGLISH

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BEGE-106/EEG-06 BEGE-106
BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMME Term-End Examination June, 2019
ELECTIVE COURSE: ENGLISH
BEGE-106 UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Maximum Marks: 100
Time: 3 hours
Note: Answer questions no. 1, 2 and 3 and any two of the remaining questions.

1(a) Comment on any one of the following passages in respect of the prosodic features:
(i) Thy way not mine, O Lord However dark it be Lead me by thine own hand, Choose out the path for me.

(ii) How fleet is the glance of the mind!  Compared with the speed of its flight
The tempest itself lags behind
And the swift winged arrows of light.

(b) Write short notes on any tw0 of the following: 2x5-10
(i) Ballad Stanza
(ii) Rhyme Royal
(iii) Satire
(iv) Syneedoche
(v) Terza Rima
(vi) Apostrophe

2 Comment on any four of the following passages with reference to their context. .      4x8-32

(a)Yet in these thoughts myself
almost despising
Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising. From sullen earth, sings hymns at heavens gate;

(b) But All subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life. The gen'ral Order, since the whole began, Is kept in Nature, and is kept in Man.

(c) Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!

(d)  If I trip him just a-dying. 
Sure of heaven as sure can be,
Spin him round and send him flying
Off to hell, a Manichee?

(e) We slowed again,
  And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled
A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.

(f) When I heard the Earth-song.
I was no longer brave;
My avarice cooled.
Like lust in the chill of the grave

(g) We're blessed  by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment - bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset.

(h)  She opened her wormy legs wide.
I felt the hunger there
  the other one, the fish slithering,  turning inside.

3. Bring out the salient features of English poetry 16 in the fourteenth century
            OR

Write short notes on any two of the following: 16
(a) Anne Bradstreet
(b) Phillis Wheatley
(c)The Fireside Poets
(d) Chicago Renaissance

4. Critically evaluate any one of the following poems: 16

(a)When the Assault Was Intended to the City

(b) Ode to the West Wind  

(c) Pied Beauty

(d) No Second Troy

(e) Death Sets a Thing Significant

(f) Damayanti to Nala in the Hour of Exile

5). Attempt a critique of any one of the following poets: 16
(a) Andrew Marvell
(b) Thomas Gray
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) Seamus Heaney
(e) Robert Frost

6) How is Indian poetry in English different from English and American poetry? 16