Scan anyone of the following passages and comment on its prosodic features:
Thy way not mine. O Lord!
However dark it be;
Lead me by thine own hand
Choose out the path for me.

How fleet is the glance of the mind
compared with the speed of its flight!
The tempest itself lags behind
And the swift winged arrows of light.

Write short notes on any two of the following:

Ode

Alliteration

Metaphor

Eye rhyme

Periphrasis

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

Such was that happy garden -state
While man there walked without a mate.
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet!

For Gold his Sword the Hireling Ruffian draws,
For Gold the hireling judge distorts the Laws;
Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor Truth nor safety buys,
The Dangers gather as the Treasures rise.

Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

They see Tiresias
Sitting, staff in hand,
On the warm, grassy
Asopus bank,
His robe drawn over
His old sightless head,
Revolving inly
The doom of Thebes.

Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

Ah, distinctly I remember itwas in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember
Wrought its ghost upon the floor.

It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards tom up,
And places with no carpet on the floor­Bare.

I don't know politics, but I know the names Of those in power, and can repeat them like Days of a week, or names of months,beginning with Nehru.

3. 'Nothing is more striking than the number, the originality, and the worth of the works which made the latter half of the fourteenth century a flowering season in English literature'. Show your familiarity with the poetry of the latter half of the fourteenth century in the light of the above observation.

OR

Write short notes in about 70 words on any four of the following:

Cynewulf

Matter of France

Sir Philip Sidney

Victorian compromise

Phillis Wheatley

Chicago Renaissance

Romesh Chunder Dutt

4. Critically appropriate one of the following poems

George the third

Andrea del Sarto

To a shade

The song of Hiawatha

After Apple-picking

Hunger

5. Attempt a critique of one of the following poets with reference to the poems prescribed for you

Alexander Pope

William Wordsworth

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wallace Stevens

Sarojini Naidu

6. Do you agree with the view that Victorian poetry is a pale imitation of Romantic poetry? Illustrate your point of view with examples from English poetry of the nineteenth century.

7. 'Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science'. Examine this point of view.

8. Explain any four of the following passages with reference to their contexts, supplying brief critical observations where necessary:

Oh fearful meditation! Where alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?

Their name, their years,spelt by the unletter'd Muse,
The place of fame and elegy supply:
And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic movalist to die.

He died! his death made no great stir on earth;
His burial made some pomp; there was profusion of velvet, gilding, brass, and no great death.
Of aught but tears-save those shed by collusion

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods, I should be glad of another death.

Here captain! dear father!
The arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

The good wife
lies in my bed
through the long afternoon
dreaming still, unexhausted
by the deep roar of funeral pyres.

9. Scan one of the following passages and comment on its prosodic features:

May thou month of rosy beauty, Month when pleasure is a duty, Month of bees and month of flowers, Month of blossom laden bowers.

With ravished ears
The monarch hears
Assumes the God
Affects to nod
And seems to shake the spheres.

10. Write brief notes on any two of the following:

Blank verse

Assonance

Symbol

Lyric

11. Critically appreciate one of the following poems

To a skylark

The unknown citizen

The Road not Taken

Looking for a cousin on a swing

12. Discuss the salient features on mock-heroic poetry and illustrate your points with examples from the Rape of the Lock.

13. Assess S.T. Coleridge as a Romantic poet.

14. Comment on the use of irony by Indian English poets.