EEG-06
BACHELOR'
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DEGREE PROGRAMME
(BDP)
ASSIGNMENTS
(For Julyn 2013 and Janunrlr 2014 Sessions)
Understanding Poetry
(EEG-06)
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open lJniversity
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068
ELECTIVE COURSE rN ENGLTSH-06 (EEG_06)
Assignment
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Assign ment code : _
Dear Student,
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As we explained in the Programme Guide for Elective courses, you
will have a home assignment for the
Elective Course in English-06 course-material.
AIMS: The TMAs are concerned mainly with- assessing your application
and understanding of the coursematerial' You are not required to reproduce chunks orlnrormuiion
from the course material but to use the
skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during
the course of study. These assignments
aim to assess your performance as well as to teach ybu.
Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read
the following instructions carefully:
I
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Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given
in the programme Guide fbr Elective
Courses.
2) write your Roll Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right comer of the flrst
your response sheet(s).
3)
page
write the course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the
Study centre
vvrruv you
rL are attached
to in the centre ofthe first page ofyour response sheet(s).
ROLL NO.
NAME:
..
ADDRESS:.
COLIRSE TITLE: ...
ASSIGNEMNT NO.
STUDY CENTRE:
DATE:
4) Your
answers should b
submitting them.
5) write
6)
of
the relevant question number with the each answer.
Submit the assignment to the coordinator of your
study centre before/on the due date.
7) Submission:
The
completed assignment should be sent to the
coordinator of the Study centre
Allotted to vou bv 31"tMarch, zotn
6or July 2013 session;- *;iq;;;fi;
(d, January
2014 session)- please read the instructions given
in th" p;gr;me
Guide.
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Before attempting the assignments read the directions given below:
1)
Read the units carefully in order to answer the questions properly. Read also the fbatures
that regularly appear in magazines and periodicals. These will help you in attempting the
a.ssignment better.
2)
Keep the purity of your language and readability of your answer in mind
get a high grade.
if you wish to
Only when you are completely satisfied with your draft answer should you write it out in the
answer book you
will
be sending us.
Note: Remember the submission of assignment is precondition of permission of uppewing
in examination. If you have not submitted the assignment in time you will not be allowed to
uppeur in exumination.
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GUIDEI,INES FOR WRITING THE ASSIGNMENTS
As you know the various questions are based on different block(s) of the course on poetry. Soon
afier you have read the relevant block(s) answer the question relevant to that/thcse blocks(s).
'Ihis u'ill help ,vtlu test and digest the material you have studied.
You may benefit by organizing your ideas before writing out your answer. One of the simple
ways oftorganizing an essay or a talk is to say what you are going to say; say it; and then say
what you have said. Obviously the idea is to have a short introductory section to every essay
type question to be succeeded by a fairly lengthy (5 Lo 7 paragraphs) discussion on the main
point* and to be summed up briefly in a concluding paragraph at the end. Try this method and
see how it works.
T'ry to send a neat answer script to your study Centre. If necessary, prepare a fresh draft for
submission. This will ensure that your Counselor will be able to give you some guide-lines fbr
improvement.
Once you receive your Counselor's comments read them carefully and if possible discuss them
with him/her. It is also very helpful if you interact with your peer group following this course.
Hope everything works out well and you find the work exciting and rervarding.
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Understanding poetry
Elective Course in English
-VI
(EEG-06)
c ou rse .oo
Answer questions
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more from the remaining questions.
Scan the following passages and comment on their prosodic features:
4x3:12
Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream;
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
b.
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
c.
When Ajax strives some rack's vast weight to throw,
The line too labours, and the words move slow;
Not so" when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th'unbending com and swims along the main.
Hint: Consult Section 2.3 in (unit 2) of MEG-01
2.
Explain with reference to their contexts any four of the following passages and supply brief
critical comments where necessary:
8 x 4:32
a.
When wasteful war shall statutes overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
b.
The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts,
And wins (oh shameful chance;) the queen of Hearts;
At this the blood the virgin's cheek forsook,
A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look;
In the first year of freedom's second dawn
Died George the Third; although no tyrant, one
Who shielded tyrants, till each sense withdrawn
Left him nor mental nor external sun:
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There was a Bifih, ceftainlY,
seen birth and death'
We had evidence and no dlubt' I had
gut had thought they were different; this Birth was
our death'
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death'
d.
The strong gods Pine for mY abode
And pine in chair the sacred seven
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me and turn thY back on heaven'
e.
O Bird of Time, saY where do You learn
The changing measures You sing? In blowing forests and breaking tides
In the huppy laughter of new made brides'
And the nests of the new-born spring;
f.
Mariner as a poem of sin' suffering and
Either examine The Rime of the Ancient
'To a Skylark''
redemption, or"riti"utiy
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belief in facing life at all cost? Give
To what extent does'Ulysses' express Tennyson's
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reasons for Your answer.
5.
ExaminetheaptnessofsimilesinStephenSpender,s.TheExpress,.14
6.
word "nevermore" in
what is the significance of the recursiveness of the
'The Raven'?
7.
Draw
a pen
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of it in 'Indian
picture of Indian summer after Jayant Mahapatra's description
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Summer'.
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