MEG 01 BRITISH POETRY
Previous Year Question Papers
December 2019
Time : 3 hours Maximum
Marks : 100
Note : Questions no. 1 is compulsory. Attempt any four other questions
1. Answer
any two with
reference to the context:
(a) The forward youth thatwould appear, Must now forsake his Muses dear,Nor in the shadows singHis numbers languishing.
(b) Whan that Aprill \vith his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the
(c) All human things are subject to decay. And, when Fate summons. monarchs must obey.
(d) Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seen, half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky
Answer any four questions :
2. What does the term “Renaissance” mean ? Identify some of the key factors responsible for the spread of the Renaissance in Europe.
3. Compare Epithalamion and Prothalamion as wedding songs.
4. What were some of the cultural and political factors that led to the making of Milton as the first major English epic poet ?
5. Why do you think satire became popular in the age of Dryden and Pope ?
6. What
early imitations of Romanticism do you find in Robert Burns ?
7. Assess
the contribution of the poets of the First World War to modern British poetry.
8. Comment
on Yeats’ poetic use of his ambivalent attitude to the Easter Rebellion in
“Easter 1916”.
9. How
does Confessional Poetry differ from the kind of poetry that was written in the
early decades of the twentieth century ?
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