B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Third Semester
English Literature
POETRY I
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. How does 'The Canterbury Tales' begin with?
2. What does Satan consider his sole glory?
3. Describe two important themes of Donne's poetry.
4. How does pope propose to get a few acres?
5. Whose fearful symmetry is referred in the poem
'The Tyger'?
6. Whom did the schoolmaster punish severely?
7. What is the meaning of drowsy tinklings?
8. Where does Wordsworth find the explanation for his
spirituality?
9. Who was Kublakhan?
10. How is the Grecian Urn called?
Sub. Code
4BEN3C1
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Section B x 5 25)
Answer all the questions.
11. How does Chaucer portray the knight and his son,
the squire?
Or
Narrate briefly the after math of the sin.
12. Write about the significance of the compass image
in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning".
Or
What are the reactions of different people to the
tiger?
13. How does Goldsmith describe the teacher and the
taught?
Or
Summarize the 'epitaph'.
14. Write a paragraph on the evolution of thought in
the third part of the poem "Ode on Intimations of
Immortality".
Or
Write a paragraph on the description of the
'River Alph' by S.T. Coleridge.
15. Write a paragraph on 'Ulysses' as a dramatic
monologue.
Or
Write a note on the west wind as a Destroyer.
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Section C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Discuss Paradise Lost as an epic.
17. Comment on the gentle thought of pope referring his
"Ode on solitude".
18. Write a critical appreciation of Gray's "Elegy written in
country churchyard".
19. How does Wordsworth interpret the different stages of
his poetic genius in "Ode on Intimations of Immortality"?
20. How does Tennyson present "Ulysses" in his poem?
Discuss.