English
Subject Code: 231111
(Victorian Poetry)
Time-4 Hours
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks-1x10=10
1. (a) How did Aurora grant immortality to Tithonus?
(b) Who is the listener in My Last Duchess?
(c) With what the fallen leaves are compared?
(d) What is Victorian compromise?
(e) What is Tennyson's opinions about knowledge and wisdom?
(f) How is Andrea inferior to other painters?
(g) What is meant by 'shepherd's holiday'?
(h) What does 'spring' suggest in the title?
(i) Who sang the choric song in The Lotos Eaters?
(j) What is a dramatic monologue?
(k) What is 'the eternal note of sadness'?
(l) Who was Felix Randal?
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-4x5=20
2. How is the Duke presented in My Last Duchess?
3. How does Tennyson satirise the Victorian age in Locksley Hall?
4. What is Arnold's view about Truth?
5. Give the substance of the poem The Windhover.
6. What is the effect of the Lotos on the sailors?
7. Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?
8. Explain with reference:
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
9. How can the bird be mirror of Christ?
Part C
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-10x5=50
10. How does Tennyson handle myth and legend in the poems you have read?
11. Justify Robert Browning as an optimistic poet.
12. Comment on the elegiac elements as found in Arnold's poems.
13. Write a note on the symbols used in Hopkin's poems.
14. What romantic elements do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have read?
15. Discuss Browning's attitude to art and life as revealed in the poems.
16. Comment on the treatment of nature in the poems of Mathew Arnold.
17. Consider Pied Beauty as a religious poem.
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