Suggestion for First Year Final Exam-2019 | Poetry | Guideline | Poramorsho
Suggestion-2019
Introduction
to Poetry
PART-C: BROAD QUESTIONS
- What metaphysical qualities do you find in the poem, The Good Morrow?
- Comment on Emily Dickinson’s treatment of Death in Because I Could Not Stop for Death.
- Comment on the intensity of passion expressed in How Do I Love Thee.
- Comment on the imagery used in How Do I Love Thee.
- Evaluate Keats as a poet of sensuousness with reference to his poem, To Autumn.
- Write a note on Shelley’s use of imagery with reference to Ode to the West Wind.
- In what sense is Ted Hughes’ Pike a poem about human violence?
- Comment on the use of imagery in Pike.
- Evaluate Donne as a love poet with reference to his poem, The Good Morrow.
- Discuss Shelley’s optimism with reference to Ode to the West Wind?
- How does Thomas Gray glorify common men in his elegy?
- What is Tagore’s concept of ideal state as suggested in
the poem, Where the Mind is without Fear?
- Discuss the theme of childhood in Dylan Thomas’ poem, Fern Hill.
PART-A: BRIEF
QUESTIONS
Sonnet 18
1. What kind
of poem is a sonnet?
2. How were the morning buds on May damaged?
3. What is ‘eye of heaven’ in Sonnet-18?
4. What is
the general structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
5. What is the sub-title of Sonnet-18?
6. Who is
William Shakespeare?
7. What is a sonnet?
8. How does
William Shakespeare glorify or immortalize the beauty of his friend in Sonne-18?
9. Why does
William Shakespeare not want to compare his friend to a day in summer?
10. ‘But thy
eternal summer shall not fade’-What
does the poet mean by ‘thy eternal summer’?
11. What is the main theme of the sonnet, Sonnet-18?
12. What is the Shakespearean sonnet/ English sonnet?
13. What is quatrain?
14. What is couplet?
15. What does ‘A Summer’s day’ stand for?
16. What does Shakespeare praise in Sonnet-18?
17. What does the poet mean by “eternal lines”?
18. Who is ‘Thee’ in Sonnet-18?
19. To whom is the Sonnet-18
by Shakespeare addressed?
20. How is a day in Summer in Britain?
21. What type of poem is Sonnet-18?
22. What is the name of William Shakespeare’s friend?
The Good-Morrow
1. What is ‘Seven Sleeper’s Den’?
2. What is metonymy?
3. What is monologue?
4. What is a conceit?
5. “Whatever
dyes was not mixed equally’;-What is this medieval alchemy called?
6. What is Platonic love?
7. What does the phrase, “good morrow” mean?
8. What is allusion?
9. Who is the
leader and founder of the metaphysical school of poetry?
10. Why is
John Donne called the father of metaphysical school of poetry?
11. What is
the main theme of the poem, The
Good-Morrow?
12. What kind of love is in the poem, The Good-Morrow?
13. What is a cartographer?
14. What is metaphysical poetry?
15. What is metaphysical conceit?
16. What is a hemisphere?
17. Who speaks to whom in The
Good-Morrow?
18. What type poem is The
Good-Morrow?
To Daffodils
1. What is lyric?
2. What is the message of the poem, To Daffodils?
3. What is the tone of the poem, To Daffodils?
4. What is daffodil?
5. What type
of poem is To Daffodils?
6. Who are regarded as the Cavalier Poets?
7. Why is Robert Herrick called Cavalier Poet?
8. What is a pastoral poem?
9. What is the theme of the poem, To Daffodils?
10. What is symbol?
11. What do
daffodils symbolize?
12. How long do the daffodils remain?
13. What does the word ‘spring’ symbolize?
14. Who is the speaker of the poem, To Daffodils?
15. Why does the poet weep to see the daffodils?
16. Why is life compared to daffodils?
17. What does Herrick mean by “short spring”?
On His Blindness
1. Who serves God best according to Milton?
2. What is
the rhyme scheme of the sonnet, On His
Blindness?
3. Who is the writer of On
His Blindness?
4. What does the poet mean by ‘light’?
5. How did John Milton want to serve God?
6. How does Milton console himself at the end of his poem?
7. When did Milton become blind?
8. What is Milton’s question to God?
9. Whose
blindness does the poem, On His Blindness
refer to?
10. What is ‘patience’?
Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard: Thomas Gray
1. What is an ‘Epitaph’?
2. Whom does Gray compare the dead villagers with?
3. “The paths
of glory lead but to the grave.”–What
figure of speech is used here?
4. What does the title of the poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard suggest?
5. Who does
Gray mourn in the poem, Elegy Written in
a Country Churchyard?
6. What is elegy?
7. Who is Thomas Gray?
8. What is the tone of the poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
9. What is ivy?
10. What is an elm?
11. What is a yew-tree?
12. What is
hamlet?
13. What is furrow?
14. Whose destiny is obscure?
15. Which
figure of speech is used in the line, “Let not Ambition mock their useful
toil”?
16. Analyze
the line, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”.
17. Who was Milton?
18. Who was Cromwell?
19. Who was Hampden?
20. To whom
the dead rustics are compared to in Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard?
21. What kind
of life did the villagers lead?
22. Who are
the rude forefathers of the hamlet in Elegy
Written in a Country Churchayard?
23. What does the word, ‘Curfew’ mean?
24. “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest.” – Identify the
figure of speech.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
1. Why is Wordsworth famous for?
2. What does Wordsworth compare the daffodils to?
3. What is hyperbole?
4. How many daffodils did the poet see?
5. Name the
figure of speech used in the line, ‘Ten thousand saw I at a glance’.
6. William
Wordsworth saw the daffodils beside a lake. What is the name of that lake?
7. “I
wandered lonely as a cloud”- What kind of figure of speech do you find here?
8. Where did Wordsworth find the daffodils?
9. What is the bliss of solitude according to Wordsworth?
10. What is Romanticism?
11. Name at least three characteristics of Romanticism?
12. What is Lyrical Ballads?
13. Who are called the Lake poets?
14. What, according to Wordsworth, is poetry?
15. What is pantheism?
16. Who is Dorothy Wordsworth?
17. Who is called the poet of Nature?
18. Why is Wordsworth called the poet of Nature?
19. With what have the daffodils been compared?
20. Why is William Wordsworth called a Romantic poet?
Ode to the
West Wind
1. Why does
Shelley call the West Wind a ‘preserver’?
2. What is an
ode?
3. What does the phrase, “the West
Wind” symbolise?
4. Where does the West Wind blow
first?
5. Whose breath is the West Wind?
6.
What does Shelley call the azure sister of Autumn?
7. What does the West Wind destroy
and preserve?
8. Where does the West Wind blow
secondly?
9. What is a lyre?
10.
What does Shelley mean by the line, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?”?
11.
What do the words, ‘winter’ and ‘spring’ symbolise in the line, “If Winter
comes, can Spring be far behind?”?
12. What does Shelley dream in Ode to the West Wind?
13.
What does Shelley personify in Ode to the
West Wind?
14. What is pessimism?
15. What is optimism?
16.
What is the rhyme scheme of the lyric, Ode
to the West Wind?
17.
What is terza rima?
18.
What type of the poem is Ode to the West
Wind?
19. What images do you find in Ode to the West Wind?
To Autumn
1. What is
onomatopoeia?
2. Give an example of the use of onomatopoeia by Keats.
3. What are the musics of autumn?
4. What is an ode?
5. Name the insects mentioned in To Autumn.
6. How does Keats define Autumn?
7. Why are Autumn and the Sun called close bosom friends?
8. Why is Autumn called the season of mellow fruitfulness?
9. What is
sensuousness?
10. What is personified in the ode, To Autumn?
11. How is Autumn personified in the poem, To Autumn?
12. What is Swallow?
13. Who are the singers in the poem, To Autumn?
14. Who is called the poet of beauty and sensuousness?
15. Who is the intimate friend of the Sun?
How Do I Love Thee?
1. To which literary age does E.B. Browning belong?
2. How many
times does Elizabeth Barrett Browning use the phrase, ‘I love thee’?
3. What type of a poem is How
Do I Love Thee?
4. Who is
‘Portuguese’ for Robert Browning?
5. How does
E.B. Browning convey the idea of the immortality of her love?
6. What does
the poet mean by ‘Ideal Grace’ in the poem, How
Do I Love Thee?
7. Who was E.B. Browning’s husband?
8. What does the poet suggest by “Sun and candle light”?
Ulysses
1. Who is Penelope?
2. Who was Achilles?
3. “I will
drink life to the lees”–What figure of
speech is used here?
4. “I will drink life to the lees” –What does the line mean?
5. Who is Ulysses?
6. What does ‘Ulysses’ symbolize?
7. Who is the son of Ulysses?/Who is Telemachus?
8. What does Ulysses say about his wife?
9. What is dramatic monologue?
10. “I am becoming a name”–What
does the line mean?
11. What does Ithaca symbolize?
12. What kind of poem is Ulysses?
13. Why can’t Ulysses match with his wife?
14. How does Ulysses criticize the laws of his country?
15. How is life presented in Ithaca?
16. What Victorian spirit do you find in Ulysses?
17. What is the Greek name of Ulysses?
18. What is a dramatic monologue?
The Patriot
1. “Thus I entered, and thus I go!” – Who is the speaker?
2. Who is
“Portuguese” for Robert Browning?
3. What is ‘Shambl’s Gate’?
4. What is monologue?
5. “It was
roses, roses, all the way”–What does
the ‘roses’ symbolize?
6. What does
the speaker mean when he says, “Thus I entered, and thus I go”?
7. Who is the speaker of the poem, The Patriot?
8. How was the air when the patriot entered the city?
9. Why did the people fling stones at him?
10. What is scaffold?
11. Who is a patriot?
Crossing the
Brooklyn Ferry
1. Name the
places connected by the river in Crossing
the Brooklyn Ferry?
2. Where was
Walt Whitman born?
3. What did
Whitman do when he lived in Brooklyn?
4. What type
of poem is Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry?
5.Q What is
Whitman’s idea about human?
6. What is Leaves of Grass?
7. Which
season is mentioned in this poem?
8. Which
rhyme scheme is used in this poem?
9. Which
river was the poet crossing?
10. What was the previous title of the poem, Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry?
11. What is Song of Myself?
12. Write
down the major poems of Whitman.
13. What is
the poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
about?
14. What is the main theme of the poem, Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry?
15. Who is Walt
Whitman?
16. What is Brooklyn Ferry used for?
17. What does
‘ferry’ symbolize in the poem, Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry?
18. What is Whitman’s idea about human?
19. What was
the moment when the man was crossing Broklyn Ferry?
20. How was the poet when he was crossing the ferry?
21. What does
the line, “It avails not, neither time nor place-instance avails not” mean?
22. Why is
Whitman battling against the experience of “alienation”?
23. What does Whitman see while crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
24. What does Whitman say to the sea-birds?
25. What does Whitman mean by the phrase, ‘the well-joined
scheme’?
26. What are the things that Whitman sees face to face?
27. What is a scallop?
28. What does
‘time’ signify in the line, “The time will come, though I stop here to-day and
to-night”?
29. What did Whitman do when he lived in Brooklyn?
30. How does
Whitman express his admiration for Manhattan in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
31. What does
Whitman bid the river to do?
32. What does
Whitman ask the waves to do?
33. How are
the waves as Whitman says in his poem?
34. Which river was Whitman crossing?
35. How does Whitman describe his brain?
36. With what does Whitman compare the boat?
37. How do we, according to Whitman, know the spirit?
38. How do
we, according to Whitman, achieve the spiritual reality?
39. Whom did Whitman raise authority question?
40. What did people look like to Whitman?
41. What do you mean by well-join’d scheme?
42. What is the meaning of “the similitudes of the past”?
43. What is not matter to Whitman?
44. How do
the generations communicate in Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry ?
45. How is the identity received in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
46. Which bad
habits did the poet have as he mentions in his poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
1. Who are
the riders of the carriage in Because I
Could Not Stop For Death?
2. How many characters are there in the lyric Because I Could Not Stop For Death?
3. “Because I
Cloud not Stop for Death”–Why could
not the speaker stop for death?
4. What type
of poem is Because I Cloud not Stop for
Death?
5. What does the phrase, “Setting Sun” signify?
6. What is mysticism?
Where the Mind is Without Fear
1. What kind
of freedom does Tagore want for his countrymen?
2. Whom does Tagore address as ‘my father’?
3. ‘Where
knowledge is free’–Who said this?
4. How can
knowledge be free?
5. What does
Rabindranath pray to God?
6. When and
why did Rabindranath win the Nobel Prize?
7. What is a
hymn?
8. What type of heaven does the poet prays for his countrymen?
9. “Where the mind is without fear…”–What does Tagore mean by “Where”?
10. Where does the poem, Where
the Mind is Without Fear appear?
11. What is the name of the original Bengali poem of Where the Mind is Without Fear?
12. What is
meant by “knowledge is free”?
13. Which
book of Tagore is the poem, “Where the Mind is Without Fear” taken from?
A Prayer for
My Daughter
1. What does Yeats mean by ‘intellectual hatred’?
2. What is the nationality of W.B. Yeats?
3. Who is Maud Gonne?
4. What type of beauty does Yeats prays for his daughter?
5. Why has the poet prayed for his daughter?
6. Whom
should the daughter of Yeats marry?
7. To which
literary age does W.B. Yeats belong?
8. What was
the name of Yeats’ daughter?
9. What is the central theme of the poem, A Prayer for My Daughter?
10. What kind
of poem is A Prayer for My Daughter?
11. How long
does Yeats pray for his daughter?
12. What
qualities does the poet want for his daughter?
13. Who is
Helen?
14. What does
the ‘storm’ symbolize?
15. What does
the linnet symbolize?
Home Burial
1. Why is Robert Frost called a regional poet?
2. Name the wife of Home
Burial.
3. What is the theme of the poem, Home Burial?
4. Why is Robert Frost called a modern poet?
5. Why does the wife want to leave her husband?
6. What is the subject-matter of the poem, Home Burial?
7. Who dug the grave in the poem, Home Burial?
8. What type of mother is Amy in Home Burial?
9. Why was Amy angry with her husband in Frost’s poem, Home Burial?
10. What is Pulitzer Prize?
11. What are the two tragedies in the poem, Home Burial?
12. What is the cause of conflict between husband and wife in the
poem, Home Burial?
The Piano
1. What is
‘savage pilgrimage’?
2. Why does D.H. Lawrence’s heart weep to remember the old Sunday
evenings at home?
3. Why is the
music of piano important in the poet’s life?
4. What is
‘vista’?
5. Where was
the child sitting?
6. Who was
the mother?
7. What does
the word ‘insidious’ mean?
8. What is
sibilance?
9. What does the poet D.H. Lawrence want to say in his poem, The Piano?
10. Who used
to play on the piano?
11. What is
the main theme of the poem, The Piano?
12. What is the effect of the song on the poet’s mind in the poem,
The Piano?
13. What type of song does the mother of the poet sing to him in The Piano?
Fern Hill
1. Why is Dylan Thomas called a Womb-tomb poet?
2. What is “Sabbath”?
3. What is Fern Hill?
4. How was the house of the Fern
Hill?
5. Write about the tone of the poem Fern Hill.
6. What is the main theme of the poem Fern Hill?
7. What is a pastoral poem?
8. How does
the poem, Fern Hill open?
9. What does the poet celebrate in
his poem, Fern Hill?
10. What was
the golden time of Thomas’ life?
11. What kind of life did Dylan
Thomas spend at Fern Hill?
12.
How was the house at Fern Hill?
13.
How happy was Dylan Thomas at Fern Hill?
14. Who allowed the poet to hail the wagons and climb on them in Fern Hill?
15.
Who is the hero in the poem, Fern Hill?
16.
Who is the protragonist in the poem, Fern
Hill?
17. To whom
is time gracious in Fern Hill?
18. How is
the turning of time in Fern Hill?
19. “I was
prince of the apple towns”. Who was this prince?
20.
What does the word, ‘lordly’ mean in the poem, Fern Hill?
21.
What does the word, ‘green’ mean in the poem, Fern Hill?
22.
What does the word, ‘huntsman’ mean?
23.
What does the word, ‘herdsman’ mean?
24. Who are Adam and Maiden
mentioned in the poem, Fern Hill?
25.
What does the word, ‘spell-bound’ mean?
26.
What does the word, ‘whinnying’ mean?
27. What is nightjar?
28.
What does the phrase, “lamb white” signify in Fern Hill?
29.
What does ‘lamb’ symbolise in Fern Hill?
30.
What does the word, ‘thronged’ mean?
31. What is
personified in the poem, Fern Hill?
32. What
figure of speech do you find in the line, “Time held me green and dying”?
33. What does the phrase,
“all the sun long” mean?
34. What figure of speech do you find in the line, “Though I sang in my chains like the
sea”?
35. What does the poet treat mainly in his poem, Fern Hill?
36.
What romantic elements do you find in Fern
Hill?
37.
What does Dylan Thomas glorify in Fern
Hill?
Pike
1. What is
the colour of the pike?
2. What kind
of fish is a pike?
3. Which literary Age does Ted Hughes belong
to?
4. Where do the pikes live?
5. How long were the three pikes kept in the glass jar?
6. How is a pike?
7. Who is the ‘Zoo Laureate’?
8. What is heraldry?
9. What was the full name of Ted Hughes?
10. What kind of poem is “Pike”?
11. Who is often called a poet of violence?
12. What is primitive energy?
13. What kind of imagery do you find in Pike?
14. What do
you understand by animal poem?
15. “Killers
from the egg” – what do you understand by this line?
16. Who are
the killers from the eggs?
17. What does
the word ‘malevolent’ mean?
18. What does
the word ‘silhouette’ mean?
19. What is
meant by a say belly?
20. “fed fry
to them” – what is fry?
Learning
Grief
1. How did the poet Kaiser Haq pass his days after his sister’s
death?
2. What figure of speech is used in the phrase, ‘clock of my
life’?
3. What is
the theme of the poem, Learning Grief?
4. How did
the poet realize that he had learned grief?
5. What did the poet give to his grandmother in her deathbed in
the poem, Learning Grief?
6. What is
‘dark mop of cloud’?
7. How old was the poet when his granny died?
8. Why was
the poet dragged from the bed when he was sleeping?
9. What does the word, ‘drag’ suggest in Learning Grief?
10. How old
is the speaker of Learning Grief when
is talking about his past experience?
11. What did the poet do after letting her granny drink?
12. Why did the speaker of Learning
Grief go back to sleep?
13. What did
the speaker of Learning Grief see
when he woke up?
14. What did the poet mean by ‘religious professionals’?
15. What were
the religious professionals doing in Learning
Grief?
16. Who were reciting from the holy Quran in Learning Grief?
17. Why were
the religious professionals reciting from the holy scriptures in Learning Grief?
18. What was the sound of the recitation in Learning Grief?
19. What was
the style of recitation of the scriptures in Learning Grief?
20. What does the word, ‘droning’ mean?
21. How did the incense smoke rise in Learning Grief?
22. What did the eyes of poet’s father look like?
23. Who said “His mother has died” in Learning Grief?
24. What did
the speaker feel at the death of his grandmother in Learning Grief?
25. When did
the speaker’s clock of life stop in the poem, Learning Grief?
26. How old
was the speaker when his sister died in Learning
Grief?
27. What does
the poet mean by stopping of clock of life in his poem, Learning Grief?
28. To what
did the speaker compare his sister in Learning
Grief?
29. Who had
got pneumonia in Learning Grief?
30. Which
disease did the sister of the poet put her life end in Learning Grief?
31. How did
the sister of the poet die in Learning
Grief?
32. How long
was the gloom of the poet’s mother in Learning
Grief?
33. How day
can be tasteless in Learning Grief?
34. How does
the poet express his experience of tasteless day in Learning Grief?
35. How was
the poet’s mood after the death of sister in Learning Grief?
36. When did
the clock of the poet’s life begin to tick again in Learning Grief?
37. What type of learning does the poem, Learning Grief?
Rhetoric and
Prosody
1. What is
the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
2. What is hyperbole?
3. What is personification?
4. What is metonymy?
5. What is paradox?
6. What is pastoral poem?
7. What is allusion?
8. What is meant by ‘egalitarianism’?
9. Define metaphor.
10. Who first used blank verse in English?
11. What is oxymoron?
12. Give an example of oxymoron.
13. Define Oxymoron with an example.
14.What is Scansion?
15. What is accent?
16.What is synaesthesia?
17. What is
ottava rima?
18. What is blank verse?
19. What is heroic couplet?
20. What is foot/measure?
21. What is simile?
22. What is symbol?
23. What is couplet?
24. What is free verse?
25. What is climax?
PART-B: SHORT QUESTIONS
Sonnet-18
- What
are the major images and symbols that Shakespeare used to glorify his
friend in Sonnet-XVIII?
- How
does the speaker promise immortality to his friend in William
Shakespeare’s Sonnet-18?
- Write
a short note on ‘Sonnet’.
- Illustrate
Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s
Day as a sonnet.
- Explain
with reference to the content:
“So long as
men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives
this, and this gives life to thee.”
The Good-Morrow
1. How far is The
Good-Morrow a metaphysical love poem?
2. What are the characteristics of metaphysical
poetry?
3. explain:-
Whatever
dyes, was not mix’d equally;
If our two
loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so
alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
4. explain:-
Where
can we finde two better hemispheres
Without
sharpe North, without declining West?
5. Explain
the allusion to the “Seven Sleepers Den”.
To Daffodils
1. Why is
Herrick called Cavalier poet?
2. Why does Herrick weep to see the beautiful daffodils?
On His Blindness
1. How does Milton console himself at the end of the poem?
2. Discuss On His Blindness
as a sonnet.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1. What kind of life did the villagers lead?
2. What might
the dead rustics become if they got proper opportunities?
3. Explain with reference to the content:
Let not
Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely
joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur
hear with a disdainful smile
The short and
simple annals of the poor.
4. Explain with reference to the content:
The boast of
heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that
beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike
the inevitable hour
The paths of
glory lead but to the grave.
I Wandered
lonely as a Cloud
1. What romantic elements do you find in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?
2. What is Pantheism?
3. What do you understand by the term, ‘Romanticism’?
4. Mention
some salient features of Wordsworth’s attitude towards nature.
5. Explain
with reference to the content:
I gazed – and
gazed – but little thought
6. Describe Wordsworth’s feeling after seeing the Daffodils.
Ode to the West Wind: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1. What prayer does Shelley make the west wind and why?
2. How does
Shelley treat the West Wind in Ode to the
West Wind?
3. How is the
west wind treated as both a destroyer and a preserver?
4. Explain
with reference to the content:
O Wind,
If Winter
comes, can Spring be far behind?
5. Explain with reference to the content:
Oh, lift me
as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
To Autumn
1. What is sensuousness?
2. What is an ode?
3. How does Keats personify autumn in his ode?
4. What are the fruits of Autumn?
5. What are the songs of Autumn, according to the poet?
6. Describe briefly the different activities of autumn.
7. explain:-
Where are the
songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of
them, thou hast thy music too, -
How Do I Love Thee
1. How does E.B. Browning convey the
idea of the passionate nature of her love for her husband?
2. Explain and interpret the following lines:
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles,
tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,
I shall but
love thee better after death.
Ulysses
1. What are
the qualities of Telemachus that make up him different from his father?
2. What is
dramatic monologue? How is Ulysses by
Tennyson a dramatic monologue?
3. Explain with reference to the content:
I cannot rest
from travel;
I will drink
life to the lees.
4. How does Victorian spirit reflect in the poem, Ulysses?
5. Explain with reference to the content:
“One equal
temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by
time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to
seek, to find and not to yield.”
The Patriot
1. How was the patriot treated at the beginning and one year
later?
2. What is dramatic
monologue? Discuss The Patriot as a
dramatic monologue.
3. How does The Patriot
reflect Browning’s profound optimism?
4. What
reasons do you guess are responsible for the fall of The Patriot?
5. How does
Browning show the tragedy of a patriot in his poem?
Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry
1. Comment on Whitman as a mystic poet.
2. “Whitman
is known as a poet of democracy.” Discuss.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
1. What
things did Emily Dickinson see on her way to eternity?
2. What is Emily Dickinson’s attitude towards life, death and eternity?
3. Comment on the symbols
Dickinson used in her poem, Because I
Could Not Stop for Death.
Where the Mind is Without Fear
1. What
spiritual elements do you find in Where
the Mind is Without Fear?
2. What does Rabindranath mean by ‘narrow
domestic walls’ in his poem, Where the
Mind is Without Fear?
3. What does
Rabindranath describe the present state of his country?
A Prayer for My Daughter
1. What does
the poet pray to God and why in the poem “A Prayer for My Daughter”?
2. What does
Yeats mean by “intellectual hatred” in his poem, A Prayer for My Daughter?
3. What
personal elements do you find in the poem, A
Prayer for My Daughter?
Home Burial
1. Write a note on the grief of the wife in Home Burial.
2. How does
Frost show the relationship between Amy and her husband in his poem, Home Burial?
The Piano
1. What image
of childhood do you get from the poem, The
Piano?
2. How does
the poet show the relation between a man and his mother in The Piano?
Fern Hill
1. How does Dylan Thomas describe
his childhood in Fern Hill?
2. How does
Dylan Thomas make use of the colour images in Fern Hill?
3. Explain
and interpret the lines:
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
3. What religious elements do you find in the poem, Fern Hill?
Pike
1. What
happened to the Pikes in a jar?
2. Identify and explain:-
Darkness
beneath night’s darkness had freed,
That rose slowly towards me, watching.
3. Describe Pike as an animal poem.
Learning Grief
1. What is
the poet’s reaction after his sister’s death in the poem, Learning Grief?
2. Write a brief note on Learning Grief.
Rhetoric and Prosody
1. Write short notes on:
Elegy
Blank Verse
Personification
Irony
Symbol
Ode
Metaphor
Heroic
Couplet
Pun
Imagery
Accent
What is measure
or foot?
Sonnet
Scansion
2.
Scan the following extracts:-
(a) Let not
Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely
joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur
hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
(b)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
(c) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s
lease hath all too short a date.
(d) It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard,
and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
(e) The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’ver the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves
the world to darkness and to me.
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