13/02/2023
Victorian Poetry
3rd Year: Exam: 2022/23
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Part – C
Find out the Pictorial Qualities in Tennyson’s poetry
How does Tennyson handle myth and legend in his poetry?
Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of victorian age/victorian elements in his poems
Discuss Browning’s Philosophy of life/optimism.
What is Dramatic Monologue? Discuss Robert Browning’s poems are dramatic monologues.
Comment on Arnold’s personal/sad elements/elegiac notes in his poems.
Discuss Arnold’s poverty as a criticism of life.
Scholar Gipsy is a pastoral elegy-discuss
Critical Appreciation/sonnet/imagery of Felix Randal
Pied beauty is a religious poem- discuss
Part - B
Why did the speaker of the poem ” Locksley Hall” fail to marry his beloved?
What optimistic belief of Tennyson do you find in the poem ” Locksley Hall”?
Describe the land of the Lotos Eaters.
Why is Oenone in a sad mood?
How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in “Locksley Hall”?
What is the effect of the lotos on the sailors?
Write a note on Oenone.
Define Victorian Compromise?
What does ” Tithonus ” fall into the genre of dramatic monologue?
Describe Andrea del Sarto as a faultless painter.
What philosophy of life do you find in ” Andrea del Sarto “?
Write what you know about Fra Lippo Lippi’s life.
What do you know about Fra Lippo Lippi’s early life?
Comment on the title of the poem, ” The Last Ride Together”.
Discuss “The Scholar Gipsy ” as a pastoral elegy.
Describe, in brief, the legend of ” The Scholar Gipsy “.
What sensory image do you find in ” Dover Beach “?
What is the poem ” Dover Beach ” about?
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