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P.G. Diploma in English Examination, August 2014
POETRY (Course – I)
(Old Scheme)
Time : 3 Hours
Max. Marks : 90
Note : 1) Answer five questions, choosing not more than two from
each Section.
2) All questions carry equal marks.
3) Do not omit any Section.
SECTION – A
1. Comment on Shakespeare’s views on love and friendship in the sonnets
prescribed for your study.
2. a) Discuss John Donne as a metaphysical poet with reference to the prescribed
poem.
OR
b) Write short notes on any two of the following :
i) Poetry of Dress
ii) The world
iii) The Gifts of god.
3. a) Analyse Milton’s poem “On Shakespeare” from the point of view of style,
structure and theme.
OR
b) How does Dryden bring out the power of music in his poem “Alexander’s
Feast” ?
SECTION – B
4. a) How does Wordsworth emphasize the importance of memory in the poem
“The Daffodils”.
OR
b) Attempt a thematic analysis of “Michael”.
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5. a) Comment on the theme of love and death in the poem “La Belle Dame Sans
Merci”.
OR
b) How does Shelley convey his tragic dilemma in his poem “To A Skylark” ?
c) Write a critical analysis of the poem ‘Ozymandias’.
6. a) Discuss the poem ‘Ulysses’ as a dramatic monologue.
OR
b) Examine Arnold’s views on Shakespeare in his Sonnet “On Shakespeare’.
SECTION – C
7. Explain the main theme of the poem ‘The Walk’ by Thomas Hardy.
8. Describe the background and the main theme of the poem “A prayer for my
Daughter” by W.B. Yeats.
9. a) “The poem is an ode in form and elegy in spirit and tone”. Examine Toru
Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ in the light of this statement.
OR
b) Attempt a critique of “Coromandel Fishers”.
10. a) Bring out the relationship between humanity and nature as explored in Frost’s
poem “Birches” ?
OR
b) Bring out the predicament of twentieth century man in Auden’s “The
Unknown Citizen”.
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