Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) 2010-1st Year M.A English ulana Azad National Urdu University, Annual - , ., (-I) (British Poetry) - Question Paper

Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Annual exam December-2010
M.A. first Year
ENGLISH (Paper-1) (British Poetry)

Time : three Hours Total Marks : 70


Note : ans any 5 of the subsequent ques..
All ques. carry equal marks.

1. In his essay on Chaucer, Huxley says "The body of his poetry may have grown old, but its spirit is still young and immortal" Elucidate.

2. In the Epithalamion, Spenser celebrates not just his wedding, but the aspirations and imagination of an opinion of T.S.Eliot on the Metaphysical Poets.

3. explain the salient features of Metaphysical Poetry and comment critically on the opinion of T.S. Eliot on the Metaphysical Poets.

4. provide an appraisal of Milton's Poetic Career. In the light of your studying of the poems prescribed.

5. Evaluate the variety of Dryden's literary talent.

6. According to a prominent critic "The great Victorian poets lacked the fire and passion 'which we obtain in the poets of the romantic revival, but they excelled them in breadth of outlook and variety of method." Do you agree with this statement? provide reasons.

7. explain the use of myth and symbolism in Eliot's Waste Land.

8. How did the confessional Poetry differ from the type of poetry that was written in the early decades of the twentieth century?

Earning:   Approval pending.