04/06/2014
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Suggestions 2014
First Year (English)
Poetry
Part-C
Four/five questions should be answered out of seven
1. How does Dylan Thomas treat childhood in the poem ‘Fern Hill’?
2. Discuss the theme of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”.
3. Discuss Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers as a protest against male dominated society.
4. What is sensuousness? Examine “To Autumn” as a sensuous poem.
5. Comment on the treatment of nature in “I Wandered Lonely as a cloud”.
Or, What is the theme of the poem” I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
6. Who was Ozymandias? What universal truth does his statue reflect?
7. Discuss the treatment of love in the poem ‘Sonnet-43’.
8. Comment on the theme of death and immortality in the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
9. How does Hughes treat human nature in Pike?
Part- B
Five questions should be answered out of eight
Sonnet-XVIII Or,
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
-William Shakespeare
Short questions:
1. How does Shakespeare glorify his friend in the poem “Sonnet-XVIII”?
Short Notes: 1. Sonnet
2. Shakespeare
Explanations:
1. Every fair from fair sometimes declines ……………..
2. So long as men can see of eyes can see ……………..
The Good-Morrow
-John Donne
Short Questions
1. Consider ‘The Good-Morrow’ as a love poem.
Short Notes:
1. Metaphysical poetry
2. Seven sleepers den
Explanation:
1. For love all love of other sights ………………. Everywhere
2. If our two loves be one or thou and I
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
-William Wordsworth
Short Questions:
1. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’.
2. Discuss the romantic elements in the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as s Cloud’.
Short Notes:
1. Romanticism
2. Daffodil
Explanation:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
Ozymandias
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Short questions:
1. What irony do you find in the poem “Ozymandias”?
Short Note:
1. Ozymandias
Explanations:
1. My name is Ozymandias ………………. Despair.
2. Round the decay ………………………. Far away.
To Autumn
-John Keats
Short Questions:
1. Discuss the figures of speech used in the poem ‘To Autumn’.
2. What are the songs of Autumn?
3. Bring out the sensuous qualities from the poem ‘To Autumn’.
4. What is an ode? Consider ‘To Autumn’ as an ode.
Short Notes:
1. Sensuousness
2. Ode
Explanation:
1.Where are the songs of spring ……………….. music too.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
-Robert Frost
Short Questions:
1.What is a foil? Discuss about the foil character in the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.
2. What images and symbols do you find in the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’?
3. How does Frost treat nature in his poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’?
Short Note:
1.Foil character
Explanation:
1.The woods are lovely dark and deep ……….. I sleep.
Fern Hill
-Dylan Thomas
Short Questions:
1. What are the childhood fantasies expressed in the poem ‘ Fern Hill’?
2. Comment on the imagery used in the poem.
Explanation:
1.Time held me green ……………. the sea.
Pike
-Ted Hughes
Short Questions:
1. In what way does Ted Hughes treat human nature in ‘Pike’?
2. How does Ted Hughes use imagery in ‘Pike’?
3. Describe the theme of violence in the poem ‘Pike’.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
-Adrienne Rich
Short Questions:
1. What is feminism? Describe Rich’s feminist concern in his ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’.
2. What was the condition of women in 20th century?
3. Comment on the symbols used in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’.
4. Contrast Aunt Jennifer with that of tapestry tigers.
Short Note:
1. Feminism
Explanations:
1.The massive weight of uncle’s …………..hand
2. The tigers in the panel ………………unafraid.
Delight in Disorder
-Robert Herrick
Short Questions:
2. How does the poet portray his beloved in his poem ‘Delight in Disorder’?
Explanation:
1. A sweet disorder in the dresses …………………….. wantonness.
2. Do more bewitch me …………………………..every part.
How do I Love Thee?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Explanations:
1. I love thee freely …………….. praise.
2. I love thee with the breath ………………… after death.
Because I Could not Stop for Death
-Emily Dickinson
Short questions:
1. Find out the mystic elements from the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
2. Discuss the theme of immortality in the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
3. Bring out the metaphysic elements from the poem ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’.
Explanations:
1. Since then ‘tis centuries ……………..eternity.
2. We passed the school ………………..setting sun.
No Second troy
-W.B Yeats
Short Questions:
1. What personal and political elements do you find in the poem ‘No Second Troy’?
2. Why does not the poet blame Maud Gonne in the poem ‘NO Second Troy’?
3. Discuss the elements of myth and legend in the poem ‘No Second Troy’.
Short Notes:
1. Troy
2. Helen
3. Maud Gonne
Explanation:
1. Why what could she have done ……….. to burn.
Snake
-D.H Lawrence
Short Questions:
1. Discuss the allusions in the poem ‘Snake’.
2. Discuss the suggestiveness/teaching of the poem ‘Snake’.
3. What was the poet’s reaction after attempting to kill the snake?
Short note:
1. Albatross
2. Snake
Ode on the Lungi
-Kaiser Haq
Short Questions:
1. Discuss the satire and irony in the poem ‘Ode on the Lungi’.
2. Give a description of Lungi.
Explanations:
1. I celebrated my lungi,
And I sing my lungi
2. The lungi is an elaborate fig leaf
Rhetoric and prosody
Rhetoric
Prosody
1. Simile
2. Allusion
3. Metaphor
4. Personification
5. Hyperbole
6. Climax
7. Pun
8. Imagery
1. Rhyme
2. Accent
3. Couplet
4. Tercet/triplet
Scansion
1. I met a traveler from an antic land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a visage, lies, whose frown,
2. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works. Ye mighty and despair!
3. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sights
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
4. Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
5. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
6. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the durling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
