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IGNOU BEGE-106: UNDERSTANDING POETRY DEC 2017 QUESTION PAPER

Note: Answer questions no. 1, 2 and 3 and any two of the remaining questions in not more than 800 words each.

Q1. (a) Scan any one of the following passage and comment on its prosodic features:

(i) Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,

And all is dross that is not Helena.

(ii) May, thou month of rosy beauty,

Month, when pleasure is a duty;

Month of bees, and month of flowers,

Month of blossom-laden bowers.

(b) Write short notes on any two of the following:

(i) Ode

(ii) Metaphor

(iii) Imagination

(iv) Pyrrhus

(v) Congeries

Q2. Explain any four of the following passages with reference to their contexts supplying brief critical comments where necessary:

(a) She’s all states, and all princes, I,

Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,

All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchemie.

(b) Some village-Hampden, that with

dauntless breast

The little tyrant of his fields withstood;

Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood.

(c) Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme :

(d) Glory be to God for dappled things —

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout

that swim;

(e) The sun is behind me.

Nothing has changed since I began.

My eye has permitted no change.

I am going to keep things like this.

(f) Ah Genoese, thy dream! thy dream!

Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,

The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.

(g) Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

(h) Man leaves his legend standing

One wave bears the other out

The river refers his bones

To the salt judgement of the sea

Q3. Write a brief account of the early post-classical period in English poetry.

Or

Write short notes in about 75 words each on any four of the following:

(a) Annales School of History

(b) Geoffrey Chaucer

(c) The Scottish Chaucerians

(d) Robert Burns

(e) William Bradford

(f) Claude Mckay

(g) Henry Derozio

Q4. How does Alexander Pope ‘vindicate the ways of God to man’ in An Essay on Man?

Q5. Give a critical assessment of any one of the following poems:

(a) Tintern Abbey

(b) Bavarian Gentians

(c) Church Going

(d) The Snow Storm

(e) A Supermarket in California

(f) Damayante to Nala in The Hour of Exile

 

Q6. Attempt a critique of any one of the following poets:

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) William Carlos Williams

(c) Wallace Stevens

(d) Jayanta Mahapatra

 

Q7. Comment on the achievements of the New England Brahmins.