MEG 01 Solved Assignment

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

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Max. Marks: 100

Answer all questions.

1. Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context: 10 X 2 = 20

(i) Oh there is blessing in thisgentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half consciousof the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

(ii) We sat grown quiet at the nameof love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the tremblingblue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time'swaters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years.

(iii) All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:

(iv) And thereupon That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born woman is to kno,,rrAlthough they do not talk of it at schoolThat we must labour to be beautiful.'

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(v) Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry

(vi) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we i' the seaven sleepers den?

2. What are the main features ofmetaphysical potery? Give examples from the poets and the poems in the course. -20 Marks

3. Does the Dejection: An Ode containany elements of what comprises Romanticism? Discuss with examples. -20 Marks

4. Write an essay on Dylan Thomas’suse of images in his poetry? -20 Marks

5. Would you consider Sylvia Plath’sDaddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically. -20 Marks