Victorian Poetry (MCUC Test Question)

English

Subject Code: 231111

(Victorian Poetry)

Time-4 Hours

Full Marks-80

Part A

(Answer any ten questions)

Marks-1x10=10

1.     (a)    Who was Agnolo?

        (b)    What does 'Fra' mean?

        (c)    What is a dramatic monologue?

        (d)    Who is Tithonus?

        (e)    What is monody?

        (f)     Who is Lucrezia?

        (g)    Who was Andrea Del Sarto?

        (h)    When did Jeanie die?

        (i)     Who was Proserpine?

        (j)     What type of poem is Locksley Hall?

        (k)    Who was Pallas?

        (l)     Who was Cassandra?

Part B

(Answer any five questions)

Marks-4x5=20

2.    What is pastoral elegy?

3.    How does Lizzie defend against the violent assault of the goblins?

4.    Describe the imagery of death as you find in A Grammarian's Funeral,

5.    What kind of paintings had Fra Lippo's monastic superiors wished him to paint?

6.    What did Arnold compares the death of Clough to in Thyrsis?

7.    What was Tennyson's optimistic belief expressed in Locksley Hall?

8.    What is Tennyson's opinion about knowledge and wisdom?

9.    Why doesn't the speaker of the poem An Apple-Gathering find any apple on the apple tree in due season?
10.  Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem Spring and Fall.

11.  Write a note on Victorian age.

Part C

(Answer any five questions)

Marks-10x5=50

12.    Comment on the symbols used in Hopkin's poems.

13.    Discuss Robert Browning as a poet of dramatic monologue.

14.    Discuss Robert Browning as an optimist poet.

15.    Write an essay on the note of melancholy in Arnold's poetry.

16.    Write a note on Browning's attitude to art and life.

17.    Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his contemporary age.

18.    Write on the pictorial quality of Tennyson's poetry.

19.    Discuss Arnold's treatment of nature in his poetry.