14/08/2026
Improvement 1st Year Suggestion
✨ English Compass by Tina ✨
🎓 Hons 1st Year – Part-C (Broad) Suggestion
📖 Course: Introduction to Poetry
🔢 Course Code: 211105
📅 Session: 2023/24 (Improvement)
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🔥 Most Important Topics for Broad Questions (Part-C)
On His Blindness
The Good Morrow
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ode to the West Wind
To Autumn
Ulysses
The Patriot
A Prayer for My Daughter
Fern Hill
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🩷 Broad Questions
1. What are the different stages of love that you find in “The Good Morrow”? (10, 19)
2. How does Dylan Thomas recreate his childhood memories in “Fern Hill”? (11, 13, 16, 22)
3. How does Keats give a sensuous description of autumn in “To Autumn”? (11, 15) / What is sensuousness? Examine “To Autumn” as a poem of sensuousness. (23)
4. How does Shakespeare immortalize/eulogize the beauty of his friend in “Sonnet-18”? (12, 14, 16, 20, 22)
5. What features of metaphysical poetry do you find in the poem “The Good Morrow”? What metaphysical qualities do you find in the poem “The Good Morrow”? (13, 17, 21)
6. Describe Wordsworth's feelings after seeing the Daffodils. (14, 22)
7. Evaluate Donne as a love poet with reference to his poem “The Good Morrow”. (15, 23)
8. Write a short note on Shelley's use of imagery with reference to “Ode to the West Wind”. (15, 19)
9. What is a dramatic monologue? Discuss “The Patriot” as a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. (15, 21)
10. Write an essay on the personal elements in Yeats's poem with reference to “A Prayer for My Daughter”. (16) / What autobiographical elements do you notice in the poem “A Prayer for My Daughter”? (23)
11. Discuss Shelley's optimism with special reference to “Ode to the West Wind”. (17, 23)
12. “Whitman is known as a poet of democracy.” Discuss with special reference to “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” (17, 23)
13. Comment on Keats’ treatment of nature in “To Autumn.” (17, 19, 21)
14. How does Robert Herrick develop the theme of transitoriness of human life on earth? (18, 20)
15. Comment on Wordsworth’s treatment of nature with reference to “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” (18, 23)
16. What types of virtues does Yeats desire from his daughter in the poem “A Prayer for My Daughter”? (18, 20)
17. Discuss briefly Browning’s optimism in the poem “The Patriot.” (19) / Is Robert Browning optimistic? Justify your answer with reference to “The Patriot.” (23)
18. Discuss the theme of human experience in Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” (19, 21)
19. What is a dramatic monologue? Evaluate “Ulysses” as a dramatic monologue. (20)
20. Bring out the regenerative elements in Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind.” (21)
21. How has the theme of alienation been worked out in the poem “Home Burial”? (21) / Explain the theme of the poem “Home Burial.” (23)
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Best wishes for your Improvement Exam! 🤍