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EG-03
June - Examination 2016
BA Pt. II Examination
Poetry and Drama - II
Paper - EG-03
Time : 3 Hours ]
[ Max. Marks :- 100
Note:
The question paper is divided into three sections A, B and
C. Write answers as per given instructions.
Section - A
10 × 2 = 20
(Very Short Answer Questions)
This section will contain ten (10) very short answer type
questions (one word, one sentence and definitional type
item) having weightage of 20 (twenty) marks. Examinees
will have to attempt all questions. Each question will be
of 2 (two) marks and maximum word limit will be thirty
words.
Note:
1) (i) Which figure of speech has been used in “Ten thousand
saw I at a glance”?
(ii) What does Ozymandias refer to?
(iii) Who is Fra Pandolf in “My Last Duchess”?
(iv) What figure of speech is in “I wandered lonely as a
cloud’?
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(v) How does Frost correspond to the Poet’s mood in ‘Frost
at Midnight’?
(vi) Which poem by Coloridge in confessional and is about
failure?
(vii) Why does poet prefer night to day in ‘To the Night’?
(viii)Who wrote curtail sonnets?
(ix) Who is Algernon’s best friend?
(x) What according to Hopkins, is our duty?
Note:
Section - B
4 × 10 = 40
(Short Answer Questions)
This section will contain eight (8) short answer type
questions. Each question will be of ten (10) marks. The
weightage of this section will be of forty (40) marks.
Examinees will have to attempt any four (4) questions.
Examinees have to delimit each answer in maximum 200
words.
2) Why does Duke draw the attention of the listener to the
bronze sculpture of Naptune taming a horse?
3) Comment on the significance of the word “last” in “My Last
Duchess”.
4) Is “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” a poem about writer’s block?
If so, how?
5) How is Jack related to Lady Bracknell?
6) How does Goldsmith describe the class divide in India in ‘The
Deserted Village’? Elaborate.
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7) Explain the line with reference and context “Wrap thy form in
a mantle gray, star inwrought”
8) Why does Wordsworth think that the girl’s song will have no
ending?
9) What is the main idea of the poem, ‘To Night’ by P. B. Shelley?
Note:
Section - C
2 × 20 = 40
(Long Answer Questions)
This section will contain four (4) long answer type
questions. Each question will be of twenty (20) marks.
Examinees will have to answer any two (2) questions.
The weightage of this section will be of forty (40) marks.
Examinees have to delimit each answer in maximum 500
words.
10) Compare Browning and Tennyson as poets.
11) Write an essay on the elements of nostalgia in “The Deserted
Village”.
12) Write a critical appreciation of Hopkin’s poem, “God’s
Grandeur”.
13) Write a note on Goldsmith and his contemporary drama and
fiction.
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