English
Subject Code: 241109
(American Poetry)
Time-4 Hours
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks-1x10=10
1. (a) What does the tree in Tree at my Window stand for?
(b) What does Whitman offer to the coffin?
(c) What does 'Wild Nights' symbolise?
(d) What are Birches?
(e) How does the poet like to go toward heaven?
(f) How did Mary define home?
(g) Where is Harlem?
(h) Which of the two roads did Robert Frost take?
(i) Who was Langston Hughes?
(j) What kind of liquor does Dickinson prefer?
(k) Whom did Dickinson feel moving 'to and fro' in I Felt a Funeral in My Brain?
(l) What inspired Langston Hughes to write the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers?
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-4x5=20
2. What does the poet mean by 'Our fearful trip is done'?
3. Find out the similarities that exist between the poet himself and the tree at his window.
4. How are the rivers mentioned in the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers associated with the Negro slavery?
5. What does the speaker of After Apple-Picking foretell about his dreaming?
6. What idea does the poet want to convey by the expression "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"?
7. Describe the mourners and how they affect the poet.
8. "I am the darker brother" - Who said this and in what context?
9. How does Walt Whitman describe the lilac-bush?
Part C
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-10x5=50
10. Examine O Captain! My Captain! as an elegy.
11. Write a critical appreciation of the poem The Death of the Hired Man.
12. Evaluate Walt Whitman as a modern poet.
13. Discuss Emily Dickinson's treatment of the theme of immortality.
14. Discuss the liberal attitude of Langston Hughes towards America.
15. Analyse the rural settings in the poems of Robert Frost.
16. Define Symbolism. What symbolic elements do you find in the poems of Langston Hughes.
17. Critically analyse the poem I Felt a Funeral in My Brain by Emily Dickinson.
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