Final Suggestions Honours 1 ST YEAR Examination 2016 Subject: English [Introduction to Poetry; Code: ]

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1 PART A BRIEF QUESTION Marks 10 (1 10) William Shakespeare: Sonnet-18/ And every fair from fair sometime declines. What does the term, fair here suggest? 2. How were the morning buds of May damaged? 3. What does the phrase, eternal summer symbolizes in Sonnet-18? 4. What is the eye of heaven in Sonnet-18? 5. What is the general structure of a Shakespearean sonnet? 6. What is the main theme of the sonnet Shall I compare Thee to a Summer s Day? 7. Who is William Shakespeare? 8. Write the first two lines of the poem Sonnet-18. John Donne: The Good Morrow/ What are conceit and metaphysical conceit? 10. What do you know about the seven sleepers den? 11. What is allusion? 12. What is conceit? 13. What is Platonic love? 14. What is the main theme of the poem, The Good Morrow? 15. What kind of love do you find in The Good Morrow? 16. What kind of poet is John Donne? 17. Who is known as a metaphysical poet? Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard/ What is the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard about? 19. What kind of poem is Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard? 20. Who is Thomas Gray? 21. Who was Cromwell? 22. Who was Hampden? 23. What is epitaph? Wordsworth: I Wander Lonely as a Cloud/ How many daffodils did the poet see? 25. What does Wordsworth compare the daffodils to? 26. What is daffodil and what is its colour? 27. What is hyperbole? 28. What is pantheism? 29. What is the bliss of solitude? 30. What is the main theme of the poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? 31. What is William Wordsworth famous for? 32. Where did Wordsworth find the daffodils? 33. Why is William Wordsworth famous? 34. William Wordsworth saw the daffodils beside a lake. What is the name of that lake? Page 1

2 Keats: To Autumn/ How is Autumn personified in the poem, To Autumn? 36. Name the insects mentioned in Ode to Autumn? 37. What are the bounties of autumn? 38. What are the musics of autumn? 39. What is an ode? 40. How does Keats define Autumn? 41. What is Hellenism? 42. What is negative capability? 43. What is the main theme of the poem, To Autumn? 44. Who are the singers of Autumn? 45. Whom does the poet address in the ode, To Autumn? Tennyson: Ulysses 46. How does Ulysses represent Victorian spirit? 47. In which poem do you find the expression I will drink life to the lees? 48. What does the poet mean by the expression I will drink life to the lees? 49. What does Ulysses say about his wife? 50. What does Ulysses symbolize? 51. Who is the son of Ulysses? 52. Who was Achilles? 53. Who is Penelope? 54. Who was Ulysses? Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee? 55. Explain and interpret the line, How do I live Thee? Let me count the ways. 56. How many times does E B Browning use the phrase I love thee? 57. What does the repetition, I love thee signify in the sonnet, Sonnet-43? 58. What is the main theme of the poem, Sonnet-43? 59. What type of poem is How Do I Love Thee? 60. Who is Portuguese for Robert Browning? E Dickinson: Because I could not Stop for Death/2013/ Because I could not stop for Death why could not the speaker stop for death? 62. How many characters are there in the lyric Because I Could not Stop for Death 63. Who did the carriage of Death hold? or, Who are the riders of the carriage? 64. Who is the woman in white? Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill/ Explain and interpret the line, Time held me green and dying / 66. What does the phrase, all the sun long mean? 67. What is Dylan Thomas called a womb-tomb poet? 68. What is Sabbath? / What is the full name of Dylan Thomas? 70. What is the main theme of the poem, Fern Hill? 71. Who is the hero in the poem, Fern Hill? 72. Who was Dylan Thomas? Page 2

3 Ted Hughes: Pike 73. Killers from the egg who? 74. How long were the three pikes kept in the aquarium? 75. How many pikes were in the aquarium? 76. How is a pike? 77. What is primitive energy? 78. What is submarine? 79. What is the main them of the poem, Pike? 80. What kind of fish is a pike? 81. What kind of the poem is Pike? 82. When did Ted Hughes become, Poet Laureate? 83. Where do the pikes live? 84. Which literary age does Ted Hughes belong to? 85. Who is called zoo laureate? 86. Why is Ted Hughes called a Tomb-womb poet? John Milton: On His Blindness: 87. How does Milton wish to serve God? 88. When did Milton lose his eyesight? 89. Whom does Milton address in On His Blindness 90. Whose blindness does the poem On His Blindness refers to? Robert Herrick: To Daffodils 91. How does the poet personify the daffodils? 92. What do the daffodils symbolize? 93. What does Robert Herrick compare human life with? 94. Which age does Herrick belong to? 95. Why does the poet weep to see the daffodils? 96. Why is Herrick called a cavalier poet? Robert Browning: The Patriot 97. What type poem is The Patriot? 98. Who is a patriot? 99. What is Shambles Gate? Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry/ What is poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry about? 101. name the places connected by the river in Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry Which river was the poet crossing? W B Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter/2013/ What is the central theme of the poem A Prayer for My Daughter? 104. What is the nationality of W B Yeats? 105. What qualities does the poet want for his daughter? 106. What type of beauty does Yeats pray for his daughter? 107. Who is Helen? Page 3

4 D H Lawrence: Piano/ What is the full name of D H Lawrence? 109. What is the main theme of the poem Piano? Rabindranath Tagore: Where the Mind is Without Fear/ Whom does Tagore address as my father? P B Shelly: Ode to the West Wind/2013/ How was Shelley in his youth? 112. Why does Shelly call the West Wind a preserver? 113. What is the last line of the poem Ode to the West Wind? 114. What made Shelley tame and weak? 115. What was the nick name of Shelley? Brief Questions based on LITERARY TERMS/RHETORIC/ PROSODY: 116. Give an example of oxymoron What are couplet and heroic couplet? 118. What are iambic metre and iambic pentameter? 119. What is a lyric? 120. What is a pastoral poem? 121. What is accent? 122. What is alliteration? 123. What is allusion? 124. What is an ode? 125. What is blank verse or free verse? 126. What is climax and anti-climax? 127. What is conceit? 128. What is epigram? 129. What is figure of speech? 130. What is hyperbole? / What is irony? 132. What is metaphor? / What is metonymy? 134. What is monologue? 135. What is pathetic fallacy? 136. What is paradox? 137. What is personification? 138. What is rhyme? 139. What is scansion? 140. What is simile? 141. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? 142. What is the sign of iambic metre? 143. What kind of poem is a sonnet? 144. Who first used blank verse in English? Page 4

5 PART B SHORT QUESTIONS [Marks 20 (4 5)] Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee to a summer s Day? (Sonnet-18)/ What images and symbols do you find in the poem, Sonnet-18?/ How does Shakespeare immortalize the beauty of his friend in Sonnet-18? 3. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem, Sonnet-18? Donne: Good Morrow 4. What is conceit? Give an example of conceit from The Good Morrow. 5. How does Donne treat love in the poem, The Good Morrow? 6. What are the characteristics of a metaphysical poem? 7. How far is The Good Morrow is metaphysical poem? 8. What is allusion? Discuss the allusion of the seven sleepers in the poem The Good Morrow. 9. Or, Write a short note on the seven sleepers den. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyar 10. What kind of life did the villagers lead as expressed in the poem Elegy Written in a country Churchyard? 11. Describe the note of melancholy in the poem Elegy Written in a country Churchyard. 12. What might the dead rustic become if they got proper opportunities? Wordsworth: I Wander Lonely as a Cloud 13. When do the daffodils flash upon Wordsworth s mind? 14. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? 15. How does I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud reflect Wordsworth s poetic theory? 16. How does Wordsworth treat nature in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? 17. What is hyperbole? Give example from the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. 18. Trace out the romantic elements from the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. 19. Describe the joyous mood of the daffodils as expressed by Wordsworth. Keats: To Autumn/ How does Keats personify autumn? Or, How is Autumn personified in the poem To Autumn? 21. What is sensuousness? Name some elements of sensuousness in To Autumn. 22. Or, How does Keats give a sensuous description of autumn in To Autumn? Tennyson: Ulysses 23. Compare and contrast Ulysses and Telemachus. 24. Or, How is Telemachus presented as a contrast to his father? 25. How does Ulysses share his thoughts with his mariners? 26. What is dramatic monologue? Evaluate Ulysses as a dramatic monologue. E B Browning : How Do I Love Thee?/ What are the things or ideas to which EB Browning has compared her deep love for her husband? 28. Comment on the intensity of passion expressed in the poem How Do I Love Thee? 29. How does E B Browning express her deep love for her husband? E Dickinson: Because I could not Stop for Death/ What mystic elements do you find in the poem Because I Could not Stop for Death? 31. What are the things Emily Dickinson saw on her way to eternity? Page 5

6 32. How is the personality of Death in the poem Because I Could not Stop for Death? 33. What is Emily Dickinson s attitude towards life, death and eternity? Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill/ Comment on the imagery used in the poem Fern Hill. 35. What romantic elements do you find in the poem Fern Hill? 36. How does Dylan Thomas describe his childhood in Fern Hill? Ted Hughes: Pike/ Describe the theme of violence in the poem Pike. 38. What happened to the pikes kept in the jar? 39. Describe Pike as an animal poem. Milton: On His Blindness: 40. How does Milton console himself at the end of the poem On His Blindness? 41. What is Milton s reaction to his early blindness and his faith in God? Robert Herrick: To Daffodils/ What idea of life do you get from the poem To Daffodils? 43. Why does Robert Herrick ask the daffodils not to haste away so soon? 44. Why Herrick is called a cavalier poet? 45. What does Robert Herrick compare human life with? 46. What request does the make to the daffodils? 47. Compare and contrast Herrick s attitude towards the daffodils with Wordsworth s. Robert Browning: The Patriot 48. How was the patriot taken to the scaffold? 49. How does the patriot console himself in his crisis? / Why does the patriot say, I am safer so? Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 50. Described the natural beauties expressed in the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry? 51. How does the poet enjoy the natural beauties of nature while crossing the ferry? W B Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter/ What personal elements do you find in the poem A Prayer for My Daughter? 53. What does W B Yeats pray for his daughter in the poem A Prayer for My Daughter? 54. What does the poet value most for his daughter in the poem A Prayer for My Daughter? D H Lawrence: Piano/ What image of childhood do you get from the poem The Piano? Rabindranath Tagore: Where the Mind is Without Fear/ What is Rabindranath Tagore s appeal to God in his poem Where the Mind is Without Fear? 57. What spiritual elements do you find in the poem Where the Mind is Without Fear? Kaiser Huq: Learning Grief 58. What is What is the poet s reaction after his sister s death in the poem Learning Grief? P B Shelly: Ode to the West Wind 59. Comment on the symbols of optimism in the poem Ode to the West Wind. 60. How is the west wind a destroyer and a preserver? 61. What request does Shelley make to the West Wind? 62. What qualities of romantic poetry do you find in the poem Ode to the West Wind? Page 6

7 Short Notes based on LITERARY TERMS/RHETORIC/ PROSODY: 1. Ode 2. Sonnet/ Blank Verse/ Elegy 5. Dramatic Monologue 6. Heroic Couplet 7. Imagery 8. Irony 9. Metaphysical Poetry 10. Metre 11. Mysticism 12. Personification/ Pantheism 14. Rhyme 15. Simile 16. Symbolism Explanations 1. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 2. Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. And summer s lease hath all too short a date. 3. Where can we find tow better hemispheres Without sharp North, without declining west? / We drove slowly He knew no haste And I had put away And labour and my leisure too, For his civility. 5. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sights. For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 6. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom d caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. 7. Drive my dead thoughts a new birth. 8. I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. Page 7

8 PART C BROAD QUESTIONS Marks 50 (10 5) Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day?(Sonnet-18) 1. How does the speaker of the poem immortalize his friend in the poem Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day? 2. What are the major images that Shakespeare uses to glorify the friend in Sonnet-18? 3. What is a sonnet? Evaluate Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day as a Shakespearean sonnet. Milton: On His Blindness 4. How does Milton express his feelings and his future course of action after being blind? Or, Critically evaluate Milton s reaction to his early blindness as expressed in the poem On His Blindness. Or, Draw a pen picture of the central theme of the poem On His Blindness. 5. Evaluate On His Blindness as a Miltonic sonnet. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 6. Consider Thomas Gray s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard as an elegy. 7. How does gray meditate on the death of the ordinary people and the vanity of human pretension in his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard? 8. Describe the life of the villagers as depicted in Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Wordsworth: I Wander Lonely as a Cloud 9. Discuss Wordsworth s feeling after seeing the daffodils in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Or, Comment on Wordsworth as a poet of Joy and solitude. P B Shelley: Ode to the West Wind 10. Discuss the theme of hope and regeneration with reference to Shelley s Ode to the West Wind. Or, Consider Shelley as a poet of hope/optimism. 11. How does Shelley express the theme of pessimism in Ode to the West Wind? Tennyson: Ulysses 12. How does Tennyson represent himself as a Victorian poet with renaissance spirit? Or, What Victorian elements do you find in his poem Ulysses? 13. What is dramatic monologue? Consider Ulysses as a dramatic monologue. Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill / How does Dylan Thomas recreate his childhood memories in Fern Hill? Or, Describe in your own words how Dylan Thomas glorifies and idealizes childhood in the poem Fern Hill? E B Browning: How Do I Love Thee 15. Comment on the intensity of passing expressed in How Do I Love Thee? Or, E B Browning s poem How Do I Love Thee is highly sentimental. Evaluate your answer. 16. Compare and contrast between William Shakespeare and E B Browning as sonneteers. E Dickinson: Because I could not Stop for Death 17. Critically comment on Dickinson s obsession with Death. Or, Show how Emily Dickinson evaluates death and immortality in Because I Could Not Stop for Death. 18. What is mysticism? What mystic elements do you find in the poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death? Robert Herrick: To Daffodils 19. How does Robert Herrick compare the shortness of human life to that of the daffodils? 20. What is carpe diem theme? How does Robert Herrick use the theme in his poem To Daffodils? Page 8