Exam Details
Subject | poetry – i | |
Paper | ||
Exam / Course | b.a.english | |
Department | ||
Organization | alagappa university | |
Position | ||
Exam Date | April, 2018 | |
City, State | tamil nadu, karaikudi |
Question Paper
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
First Semester
English
POETRY I
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What does Yeats mean by "intellectual hatred"?
2. What, according to Hopkins, is the secret of nature's
feshness?
3. What did the lovers fear in "When We Two Parted"?
4. What does the withered sedge stand for, in "La Belle
Dame Sans Merci'?
5. Why does the Duke admire Fra Pandolf?
6. What is the eternal note of sadness in "Dover Beach"?
7. What does the speaker compare his love to, in "A Red,
Red Rose"?
8. What, according to Blake, poisons the human spirit?
9. What is the epigraph of the poem "Dejection: An Ode"?
10. What renews the Cowper's filial grief?
Sub. Code
7BEN1C2
AFS-0319
2
Wk 10
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Bring out the gloomy atmosphere in "A Prayer for
My Daughter."
Or
How does Owen describe the death of the soldiers?
12. How is parting treated in "When We Two Parted"?
Or
Analyze the vanity of earthly power in
"Ozymandias".
13. Comment on the nature of Telemachus in "Ulysses."
Or
What is your evaluation of the Duchess in "My Last
Duchess"?
14. Analyze Blake's views on wrath as expressed in
"A Poison Tree."
Or
How does Cowper picture his mother in "On the
Receipt of my Mother's Picture"?
15. Analyze the speaker's attitude towards books in
"The Scholar."
Or
How does Coleridge dismiss his painflul thoughts in
"Dejection: An Ode"?
AFS-0319
3
Wk 10
Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. How does the poem, "God's Grandeu" proclaim the
grandeur of God's creation?
17. Describe the Knight's dream in "La Belle Dame Sans
Merci''.
18. How does Arnold show the disintegration of values in
"Dover Beach"?
19. Comment on the simplicity and beauty of Burns's poem
"A Red, Red Rose."
20. Examine the resolution and independence in "The Leech
Gatherer."
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First Semester
English
POETRY I
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What does Yeats mean by "intellectual hatred"?
2. What, according to Hopkins, is the secret of nature's
feshness?
3. What did the lovers fear in "When We Two Parted"?
4. What does the withered sedge stand for, in "La Belle
Dame Sans Merci'?
5. Why does the Duke admire Fra Pandolf?
6. What is the eternal note of sadness in "Dover Beach"?
7. What does the speaker compare his love to, in "A Red,
Red Rose"?
8. What, according to Blake, poisons the human spirit?
9. What is the epigraph of the poem "Dejection: An Ode"?
10. What renews the Cowper's filial grief?
Sub. Code
7BEN1C2
AFS-0319
2
Wk 10
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Bring out the gloomy atmosphere in "A Prayer for
My Daughter."
Or
How does Owen describe the death of the soldiers?
12. How is parting treated in "When We Two Parted"?
Or
Analyze the vanity of earthly power in
"Ozymandias".
13. Comment on the nature of Telemachus in "Ulysses."
Or
What is your evaluation of the Duchess in "My Last
Duchess"?
14. Analyze Blake's views on wrath as expressed in
"A Poison Tree."
Or
How does Cowper picture his mother in "On the
Receipt of my Mother's Picture"?
15. Analyze the speaker's attitude towards books in
"The Scholar."
Or
How does Coleridge dismiss his painflul thoughts in
"Dejection: An Ode"?
AFS-0319
3
Wk 10
Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. How does the poem, "God's Grandeu" proclaim the
grandeur of God's creation?
17. Describe the Knight's dream in "La Belle Dame Sans
Merci''.
18. How does Arnold show the disintegration of values in
"Dover Beach"?
19. Comment on the simplicity and beauty of Burns's poem
"A Red, Red Rose."
20. Examine the resolution and independence in "The Leech
Gatherer."
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