B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
Second Semester
English
POETRY I
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 1 10)
Answer all questions.
1. The pilgrims stayed at Inn.
Southwark Tabard
Thomas Beckett
2. Tender buds are shed from trees because of rough winds
in
May October
December
3. The line "Did he smile his work to see?" appears in

"Ode on Solitude"
"The Canonization"
"The Tyger"
Sub. Code
1BEN2C1
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4. Pope proposes to spend his spare time by
reading
meditating
reading and meditating
5. The villagers admired the village school master's
versatility jocundity
sense of humor
6. The simple rustics could not gain popularity for want of

wealth opportunity
love
7. There are sections in the poem "Ode on the
Intimations of Immortality."
thirteen twelve
eleven
8. The Abyssinian maid sang of
Mount Abora Kubla Khan
Alph river
9. The Grecian urn is called because it retains its
purity and charm.
"unravished" "unwearied"
"unheard"
10. Shelley calls the west wind a destroyer and
creator preserver
demolisher
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Part B x 7 35)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Analyze the description of summer in Prologue to
Canterbury Tales.
Or
How does Shakespeare describe the "eternal
summer" of his friend and season?
12. Comment on Pope's concept of self-dependence.
Or
What amazes the speaker of "The Tyger"?
13. How does Goldsmith describe the services of the
school master?
Or
What are Gray's remarks on the monuments of the
rich?
14. How, according to Wordsworth, does "vanished
thought" influence our thoughts and actions in "Ode
on the Intimations of Immortality"?
Or
Analyze the atmosphere of romance in Coleridge's
"Kubla Khan".
15. Analyze the metaphors used for the West Wind.
Or
How does Keats describe the various scenes
depicted on the urn?
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Sp 6
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. How does Chaucer describe the traits of the Knight and
the Squire?
17. How far is "The Canonization" a highly sophisticated
defense of love against the corrupting values of politics
and privilege?
18. Consider Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard"s a reflection of social conscience.
19. Examine Wordsworth's contrast between childhood and
adulthood in "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality".
20. Examine the attitude presented toward life and death in
"Ulysses".
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