M.A-M.A English 3rd Year Paper -3.5 : Poetry - I(University of Pune, Pune-2013)
M.A. (Part - II) (Semester - III)
ENGLISH
Paper -3.5 : Poetry - I
(2008 Pattern) (Optional)
Time : 3 Hours] [Max. Marks :80
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1) a) Explain with reference to the context of any TWO of the following: [8]
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
I could not die with you,
For one must wait
To shut the other’s gaze down, You could not.
The women shared
The secret like a happy funeral
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air
b) Answer any ONE of the following: [8]
i) Briefly explain any two figures of speech with examples.
ii) What is a dramatic monologue? Give a couple of examples.
P.T.O.
Q2) Write a detailed answer to any ONE of the following: [16]
a) Bring out the mythical and literary allusions in T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land. b) Examine the character of Fra Lippo Lippi with reference to his beliefs,
ambitions and escapades.
Q3) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following: [16]
Symbolism in Frost’s Birches
Allusions in Emerson’s The Problem
The theme of Whitsun Weddings
Celebration of childhood in Fern Hill
Byzantium as a holy city
The theme of Home Burial
Q4) Attempt any ONE of the following: [16]
a) Appreciate the remarkable blending of thought, emotion and imagery in
Robert Frost’s poetry.
b) Discuss how Keats has blended the lyrical and the reflective mode in his
Ode to Nightingale.
Q5) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following: [16]
The theme of Wordsworth’s Michael
Auden’s appreciation of the Old Masters
Skunk Hour as a poem of it’s time The tone of Plath’s Lady Lazarus
Images in There Was a Child Went Forth Sunday Morning as a meditative poem.
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