Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) English Poetry E-201 - Question Paper

B.A. English Poetry
Time : 3 hours Maximum : 100 marks
PART A — (5 ? eight = 40 marks)
Write short essays on any 5 of the subsequent.
1. The similies in Paradise Lost. Book - II.
2. Mention the 3 stages of Wordsworth's experience with reference to the ‘Tintern Abbey’.
3. Assess ‘‘The Last Ride Together’’ as a Dramatic Monologue.
4. How is death personified in Emily Dickinson's ‘Because
I Could not Stop for Death’?
5. Bring out the central theme in Wallace Stevens' ‘Sunday Morning’.
6. Justify how ‘Small Scale Reflections reveals the poets gearning for self-fulfilment through family relationship.
7. Write a critical appreciation of ‘The Old Playhouse’.
8. Discuss how The Telephonic Conversation is a satire on the coloured person's experience in England.
PART B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
ans any 4 of the subsequent.
9. Consider ‘Mac Flecnoe’ as a satire.
10. The Waste Land is the expression of the dissolution of a generation – explain.
11. Arnold's criticism of modern life in ‘The Scholar Gypsy’.
12. Summarise the philosophy of Emerson in ‘Brahma’.
13. Frost's attitude to nature with reference to his ‘West Running Brook’.
14. Discuss the irony and humour in the ‘Night of the Scorpion’.
15. Write an essay on Australia – its past and current – from A.D. Hopes poem.

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