B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
Second Semester
English
POETRY II
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. Where did the pilgrims assemble in Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales?
2. Before whom does the bride kneel in the temple in
"Epithalamion"?
3. Where has Satan been hiding for the last seven days?
4. Why is Eve alone on the day of her temptation and fall?
5. What is the first gift that God gave to man in "The Gifts
of Man"?
6. What is the dominant image in "A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning"?
7. To what does the speaker compare our life in "Laugh and
be Merry"?
8. What is compared to a "ghostly galleon" in "The Highway
Man"?
Sub. Code
7BEN2C2
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9. What is the duty of the village school master?
10. Who marked the poor for her own in Gray's "Elegy"?
Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. How does Chaucer portray the Squire in Prologue to
the Canterbury Tales?
Or
Comment on the passage of time in "Epithalamion."
12. In what way is Paradise Lost Book IX the turning
point of the epic?
Or
Analyze the role of Eve in Paradise Lost Book IX.
13. How does Herbert establish that the inevitable
human fate is restlessness and weariness?
Or
Analyze the metaphysical elements in Donne's
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
14. How does Masefield exhort mankind in "Laugh and
be Merry"?
Or
Analyze the treatment of love in "The Highway
Man."
15. How does Goldsmith describe the teacher and the
taught?
Or
Analyze the pastoral qualities in Gray's "Elegy
Written in the Country Churchyard."
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Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. How far is "Epithalamion" both personal and universal in
its theme and tone?
17. Discuss the effects of the forbidden fruit on Adam and
Eve in Paradise Lost Book IX.
18. How does Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning" suggest a vision of human love as healthily
integrating both the spiritual and sexual aspects of
human nature?
19. Examine the tragic story of the Highway Man.
20. Examine Gray's contrast of the poor and the rich in
"Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard."
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