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Questions
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Write a note on Soliloquy
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What is Metre? Explain the four basic
kinds
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Highlight the main points present in
‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’
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‘He plants his footsteps in the sea, And
rides upon the storm. Deep in
unfathomable mines Of never failing
skill’
Critically explain the above lines.
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Words Worth’s ‘The World is too much
with us’ though written a century ago
holds meaning for the contemporary
world. Explain.
What does
mean?
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the
term
Renaissance
Answers
The rise of the spirit of religious and scientific inquiry
The self emancipation of the individual to form the intellectual movement
that embraced the reawakening of scholarship
The recovery of ancient learning
Challenging the thralldom of institutions by subverting feudalism
The transition from medieval to modern methods of study and thought
In drama, the Soliloquy is an actor’s secret thoughts uttered aloud on the
stage
It is spoken when no other actor is on stage
It is believed that soliloquy is an unnatural device
A device of ancient Greek and Roman drama
It was popular during Renaissance period
Shakespeare often used this device
A soliloquy sometimes provided information on the plot
The technique is striking in Hamlet and Macbeth
The audience knows that it is an unread device but they accept it like other
convensions of drama
Metre is the rhythmic pattern created in a line verse
Accentual metre The number of stressed syllables in a line is fixed, but the
number of total syllables is not
Example – Beowulf, Gerald Manley Hopkenis developed a form of
accentual metre called sprung rhythm which had considerable influence on
th
the 20 century poetry
Syllabic metre: The number of total syllables in a line is fixed, but the
number of stressed syllables is not
Accentual syllabic metre: Both the number of stressed syllables and the
number of total syllables is fixed. It was used by Chaucer in the late middle
ages
Quantitative metre: The duration of sound of each syllable, rather than its
stress, determines the metre. Not common in English
This poem earned Gray an honourable place in English literature
Gray mourns the death of common men who are buried in a church
graveyard
This grave yard reminds the poet that he too one day would be buried there
The forefathers dead in the graveyard will never rise again
Death is a leveler. A rich or poor would die one day
Gray criticizes the rich who exploit the poor
Many gems not recognized by the world may be present in the grave. There
may be a poet, an artist or any other talented person whose fame did not
reach the people may be present in the church grave yard
The poet speakes in this elegy wonders if the next famous musician or
politician may be buried undiscovered in the graveyard. He says that he
wishes to be remembered as a humble person after he dies
A extract from light shining out of darkness by William Cowper
Metaphor in the first line – God is the Almight does impossible things. God
can do anything and is not limited by physical conditions. God has the
control of water
God also has control over the storm. Almost like a horseman has control
over the horse
God has deep mines which contain God’s abilities and skills in abundance.
The mine is so deep that we cannot see the bottom
God can do anything and overcome any obstade. He is the superior
The poem emphasis that we should relish the beauty of nature. The sea
bares ‘her bossom to the moon’. The wind at times is like sleeping flowers’
Gives us message that we should enjoy the short span of her life. We
spend our time in ‘Getting and spending. We need to come out of this
materialistic world
The poet wishes to be a pagan and so can adore nature and be close to
god pagans are superior to Christians
Wordsworth seems to have experienced certain disillusionment with
mankind. He had realized that the people of his era were more focused on
material gains rather than enjoying nature’s beauty and bounty. They
completely denied the mysticism of the Greek and their pagan values
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