Annamalai University 2011-1st Year B.A English - - - - Poetry - Question Paper

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2011
( ENGLISH )
( 2nd YEAR )
( PAPER - III )
640. POETRY
( Common to B.A. English and Communication )
( Including Lateral Entry & Double Degree )
May ] [ Time : three Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
part – A (5 × four = 20)
I. Annotate 5 of the subsequent passages:
1. Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neaera 's hair?
2 . What passion cannot Music raise and Quell!
3 . More like a man Flying from something that he dreads than 1 Who sought the thing he loved.
4. Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music;-do I wake or sleep?
5 . O wind, If winter comes and spring be far behind?
6 . This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.
7. The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to presume the World.
8 . For England may keep faith For all that is done and stated.
9. Happy the soldier home, with not a notion How somewhere, every dawn, a few men attack.
10. Was he free? Was he happy? The ques. is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
part – B (1 × 20 = 20)
II. ans 1 of the subsequent questions:
1. Show how Lycidas is an expression of personal grief.
2. Substantiate the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.
3. How does Wordsworth define his various attitudes to nature in "Tintern Abbey Lines"?
4. Briefly state the feelings aroused in Keats as he 1st hears the song of the nightingale.
5. Write a note on the character of the West Wind as portrayed by Shelley.
part – C (1 × 20 = 20)
III. ans 1 of the subsequent questions:
1. What do you learn about the character of the Duke from the poem, "My Last Duchess"?
2. Why is Tithonus dissatisfied with the gift of immortality bestowed on him?
3. Why does Yeats say that a terrible beauty is born?
4. What effect does war have upon the ordinary soldier, according to Wilfred Owen?
5. discuss the title, "The Unknown Citizen."
part – D (1 × 20 = 20)
IV. ans 1 of the subsequent questions:
1 . How does Pope express his vexation with bad poets?
2. Why is John Donne afraid of meeting death?
3 . What is Collin's attitude to nature?
4 . Attempt a critique of Blake's "A Poison Tree."
5 . Consider "Kubla Khan" as a dream poem.
part – E (1 × 20 = 20)
V. ans 1 of the subsequent questions:
1. How does Hopkins prise God in "Pied Beauty"?
2. How does Walter de La Mare create a dream world in "Arabia"?
3. Examine the emotions evoked by the poem "The Dead."
4. How does Dylan Thomas link the current emotions with the emotions of the past?
5. How does Philip Larkin define modern times in his poem, "Wants.?

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