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Romantic Poetry | Final Sugg for 2022 – The exam will be held in 2023
Part: B
- William Blake
- Describe the conditions of the chimney sweepers. Ans *** [SG: page-48, EL: page- 19]
- What do the songs of innocence teach us about life? [EL: page- 24]
- How does Blake criticize society in the poem “London”? *** [SG: page-64, EL: page- 24]
- How is the tiger different from the lamb? *** [SG: page-60, EL: page- 21]
- What kind of person is the nurse in the “Songs of Innocence”? [SG: page- 42]
- How are the lamb, the child and Christ connected? *** [SG: page- 40, EL: page- 18]
- What do you know about Holy Thursday? *** [SG: page- 44, EL: page- 20]
- William Wordsworth
- Write a short note on ‘Pantheism’. *** Ans [SG: page- 120, EL: page- 118]
- What ‘Loss’ does the poet refer to in “Tintern Abbey”? *** Ans [SG: page- 129, EL: page- 82]
- Why does Wordsworth request Milton to return to England? *** Ans [EL: page- 91]
- What does Wordsworth advise his sister Dorothy in “Tintern Abbey”? Ans *** [SG: page- 132, EL: page- 83]
- What are the losses and gains in life as mentioned in the poem “Immortality Ode”? *** [EL: page- 87]
- Describe the father-daughter relationship in “It is a beauteous evening calm and free”.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Write a short note on the wedding Guest. *** [SG: page- 188, EL: page- 207]
- How was the old sailor relieved of his curse? *** [EL: page- 187]
- Why did the old sailor kill the albatross? *** [EL: page- 184]
- What are the romantic elements in ‘Kubla Khan”? *** [SG: page- 207]
- What lesson did the old sailor learn from his last journey? [EL: page- 187]
- Draw the significance of Death and Life-in-Death in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. [EL: page- 186]
- George Gordon Byron
- Treat Byron as a revolutionary poet and a poet of freedom. ***
- How did Juan manage to flee from Julia’s bed chamber? *** [SG: page- 364, EL: page- 235]
- What do you know about the education of Donne Inez? Write in brief. [SG: page- 360]
- Briefly state the theme of “Don Juan Canto I”. [EL: page- 232]
- What is ‘poetic license”? *** [SG: page- 362]
- What do you know about a Byronic hero? *** [SG: page- 359, EL: page- 231]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Describe the procession of mourners in “Adonais”. *** [EL: page- 280]
- Why does Shelley forbid men to mourn for Adonais? *** [EL: page- 284]
- What request/ appeal does the poet make to the skylark? *** [SG: page- 325]
- John Keats
- Write a note on negative capability of Keats. *** [SG: page- 273, EL: page- 366]
- What is Hellenism? *** [SG: page- 252, EL: page- 367]
- Analyze Keats’ conception of beauty and truth in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’/ message of the urn. ***
- What is the feelings of Keats after reading Chapman’s Homer? [EL: page- 350]
- Describe Melancholy’s relation with Beauty and Joy. [SG: page- 276]
Part: C
- William Blake
- Write a note on Blake’s treatment of/attitude to childhood. *** Answer [SG: page-76, EL: page-45]
- Write a note on Blake’s use of symbols/Symbolism in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. *** [SG: page-75, EL: page-50]
- William Wordsworth
- Discuss the treatment of nature in Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey. / What are the three stages of growth that Wordsworth refers to in “Tintern Abbey”? *** Answer [SG: page-157, EL: page-126]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an allegory of crime, punishment and redemption.”- Discuss. / Describe the allegorical significance of the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” *** [EL: page-210]
- How does Coleridge mingle the natural and supernatural in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? / Comment on the use of supernatural elements in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. *** Answer [SG: page-214, EL: page-208]
- Discuss. “Kubla Khan is a product of sheer fancy”- Discuss. Answer
- Write a note on the imagery in the poem “Kubla Khan.”
- George Gordon Byron
- Discuss Byron’s Don Juan as a social satire. /
How does Byron satirize the idea of conventional love and marriage? Answer [EL: page-254] /
Discuss the women characters in Don Juan, Canto 1. *** [EL: page-259]
- Discuss Byron’s Don Juan as a social satire. /
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Comment on Shelley’s use of imagery with references to the poems you have read. ***
- Discuss ‘Adonis’ as a pastoral elegy. *** [EL: page-313]
- Write a note on Shelly’s treatment of nature in Adonais.
- John Keats
- Do you think Keats is an escapist? Elaborate your answer / Do you think Keats wants to escape from reality? Justify your answer from your study of Keats. *** [EL: page-373]
- Evaluate Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness. *** [EL: page-375]
- How is the world of mankind contrasted with that of the Nightingale in “Ode to a Nightingale” [EL: page-372]
- Extra
- Comment on the images used in “Adonais”.
- Write a critical appreciation of the poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”. [EL: page-383]
Romantic Poetry | Final Sugg for 2021
- Comment on Blake’s treatment of childhood with reference to the “Songs of Innocence”. Answer [SG: page-76, EL: page-45]
- How does Blake represent two contrary states of a human soul? 21 Answer
[SG: page-73, EL: page-43] - Bring out the mystified elements in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
[SG: page-72, EL: page-49] - Discuss the theme of loss and recompense in Immortality Ode. Answer
[SG: page-154, EL: page-137] - Comment on Wordsworth’s attitude to childhood with reference to his poems. Answer
[SG: page-153, EL: page-135] - What are the three stages of growth that Wordsworth refers to in “Tintern Abbey”? Answer
[SG: page-157, EL: page-126] - Write a critical appreciation of the poem “London 1802”. 21
[SG: page-155, EL: page-153] - How does Coleridge mingle natural and supernatural in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? Answer [SG: page-214, EL: page-208]
- Kubla Khan is a product of sheer fancy – discuss. Answer
[EL: page-217] - Don Juan Canto – 1 is a social satire. — discuss. Answer
[SG: page-253, EL: page-254] - Write a note on the autobiographical elements in Byron’s poetry.
- How does Shelley idealize the bird “Skylark”? 21 Answer
[SG: page-342, EL: page-306] - Discuss Shelley’s use of imagery in his poem “To a Skylark”. Answer
[SG: page-340, EL: page-305] - Comment on the images used in “Adonais”.
- How has Keats established the supremacy of art over life in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? 21 Answer
[SG: page-293, EL: page-378] - How is the world of mankind contrasted with that of the Nightingale in “Ode to a Nightingale”? Answer [SG: page-409, EL: page-372]
- Consider Keats as a romantic poet with reference to his odes. Answer [SG: page-283]