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POST-GRADUATE COURSE

Assignment : June, 2016

ENGLISH Paper-I : Poetry

Full Marks : 100 Weightage of Marks : 20%

Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the

answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each

question has been indicated in the margin.

SECTION – A

Answer any two of the following questions.

18 × 2 = 36

1. Comment on Chaucer's use of irony and satire in

the characterisation of the Monk and the Friar.

2. What is allegory ? Bring out the allegorical

elements in Faerie Queene ( Book I )

3. Write a critical note on Donne's use of

metaphysical conceits in the poems prescribed in

your syllabus.

4. Discuss to what extent Dryden succeeds in

transforming an event of contemporary national

politics into a poem of universal interest in

Absalom and Achitophel.

SECTION – B

Answer any three of the following questions.

12 × 3 = 36

5. Analyse critically the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost ( Book I ).

6. Comment on Blake's vision of the city as presented in his poem 'London'.

7. Keats's 'Odes' are simultaneously sensuous and philosophic. Examine the validity of the statement with reference to any two poems prescribed in your syllabus.

8. Discuss 'Andrea del Sarto' as a dramatic monologue.

9. Justify the appropriateness of the sub-title 'To Christ Our Lord' of G. M. Hopkins's poem 'The Windhover'.

10. W. H. Auden's 'The Unknown Citizen' expresses the predicament of modern man. Discuss.

SECTION – C

11. Locate and annotate any four of the following :

7 × 4 = 28

a) "He koude songes make and well endite,

Juste and eek daunce, and weel purtreye

and write.

So hoote he lovede that by nightertale

He sleep namore than dooth a nyghtyngale.

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b) "O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never

shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his

height be taken".

c) "Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,

Withdraws into its happiness;

The mind, that ocean where each kind

Does straight its own resemblance find."

d) "Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's

fool,

Nor lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool,

Not proud, nor servile, be one poet's

praise,

That if he pleased, he pleased by manly

ways."

e) "Mother of this unfathomable world

Favour my solemn song, for I have loved

Thee ever, and thee only; ... "

f) "What in the midst lay but the Tower itself ?

The round squat turret, blind as the fool's

heart,

Built of brown stone, without a counterpart

In the whole world."

g) "Time held me green and dying

Though I sang in my chains like The sea."

h) "The convenience of the high trees !

The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray

Are of advantage to me;

And the earth's face upward for my

inspection."

i) "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,

Had a bad cold, nevertheless

Is known to be the wisest woman in

Europe,

With a wicked pack of cards."

1. Date of Publication : 31/12/2015

2. Last date of submission of answer script by the student to the study centre

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07/02/2016

3. Last date of submission of marks by the examiner to the study centre

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06/03/2016

4. Date of evaluated answer script distribution by the study centre to the student

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13/03/2016

5. Last date of submission of marks by the study centre to the Department of C.O.E. on or before.

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27/03/2016