Scan anyone of the following passages and comment on its prosodic features:

I put my hat upon my head And walked into the strand, And there I met another man whose hat was in his hand.

Most friendship is feigning, Most loving mere folly.


Write short notes on any two of the following:

The Elizabethan Sonnet

Quantitative Metre

Metonymy

Onomatopoeia

Aposiopesis


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

First, we loved well and faithfully, Yet knew not what we loved, nor why; Difference of sex no more we knew, Than our guardian angels do;

Then say not man's imperfect Heav'n in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought; His knowledge measured to his state and place, His time a moment, and a point his space.

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own The tumult of the mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone.

Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions

which a minute will reverse.

But somewhere in my soul, I know
I've met the thing before;
It just reminded me all­
And came my way no more.

Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead gray shadow against the sky, big as a man, sitting dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust

Who shall unking thee, husband of a queen? Wear thou thy majesty inviolate.

3. "Miserly nature created only imitators and reiterators of outworn themes." Is this a fair estimate of English Poetry in the period 1400 to 1550 Comment.

OR

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

Caedmon

Edmund Spenser

The Cockney School of Poetry

The Decadent Poets of the late Nineteenth Century

William Bradford

The Beat Poets

Henry Derozio

4. Critically appreciate one of the following poems:

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

Pied Beauty

Gerontion

The Snow Storm

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

A Hot Noon in Malabar

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

William Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

Walt Whitman

Allen Ginsberg

Keki N. Daruwalla

6. Comment on the salient features of 'New Poetry' in Indian English.

7. "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." Evaluate Aristotle's opinion in the light of the poems that you have read.


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

Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sear,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forced fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

The skilful nymph reviews her force with care;
Let Spades be trumps she said, and
trumps they were.

Though the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

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.

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling on the Ground
The Roof was scarcely visible
The Cornice -in the Ground

The trip had darkened every face,
Our deeds were neither great nor rare.
Home is where we have to gather grace.

2. Scan one 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.

On a mountain stretched beneath a hoary willow
Lay a shepherd swain and viewed the rolling billow.

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

Metaphor

Feminine rhyme

Apostrophe

Ode

4. Critically appreciate one of the following poems:

The Daffodils

The Darkling Thrush

Hamatreya

Palanquin Bearers

5. Write an essay on Metaphysical Poetry with special reference to John Donne's poems.

6. Comment on Matthew Arnold's use of epic similes in Sohrab and Rustum.

7. Write an essay on W.B. Yeats as a poet.