EEG06 Understanding Poetry B.A Question Bank : uou.ac.in

Name of the University : Uttarakhand Open University
Degree : B.A
Department : English
Subject Code/Name : EEG06 Understanding Poetry
Year : III
Document Type : Old Question Papers
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UOU Understanding Poetry

B.A. III, ENGLISH EXAMINATION 2012
Time : 03 Hours
Max. Marks: 70

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Note : The question paper is divided into three sections, A, B and C. Follow instructions given at the beginning of each section.

Section – A

(Long-Answer Questions)
Note : Answer any two questions. Each question carries 20 marks.
Q1. Discuss Shakespeare as a sonneteer.
Q2. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem ‘A Psalm of Life’.
Q3. Discuss the supernatural machinery used by Coleridge in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’
Q4. Discuss Rabindra Nath Tagore as a poet.

Section – B

Note : answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 marks. 4×5=20
Q1. Briefly discuss why Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ is a pastoral elegy.
Q2. Briefly discuss the three stages of Wordsworth’s approach to nature.
Q3. What sort of life did Yeats find at Coole?

Q4. How does the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’, throw light upon Sarojini Naidu’s conception of Indian Women?
Q5. What is the significance of the epitaph in the poem, ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’.

Q6. Comment on Keats’ ‘Negative Capability’.
Q7. Give a brief outline of the poem, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’
Q8. With the help of two sets of images from the first and the second stanzas from the poem ‘Journey of the Magi’, show how Eliot is an anti-romantic poet.

Section C

Objective Questions (Compulsory)
Answer all questions. Each question carries 01 mark. 10×01=10
Q1. In poetry, what is a one-foot line known as?
Q2. Which poem prescribed in your course ends with the line, “Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”

Q3. It which poetic form is the poem ‘Rape of the Lock’ written.
Q4. Who has written the philosophical poem, ‘The Testament of Beauty’?
Q5. Which poet prescribed in your course pays tribute to those great people who were dynamically conscious of their glorious traditions?

Q6. Name the poem prescribed in your course that pre-visualizes death.
Q7. Which figure of speech is used in the expression “Remorseless deep”?
Q8. Which Victorian poet prescribed in your course is well-known for his Dramatic Monologues?

Q9. Which poet prescribed in your syllabus is a metaphysical poet?
Q10. Name the figure of speech used in the following line taken from the poem ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’ ‘It cracked and growled, and roared and howled.

Third Year Examination – 2015

EEG-06 Understanding Poetry :
Time : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks : 60
Note : This paper is of sixty (60) marks divided into three (03) sections A, B, and C. Attempt the questions contained in these sections according to the detailed instructions given therein.

Section – A : (Long Answer Type Questions)
Note : Section ‘A’ contains four (04) long-answer-type questions of fifteen (15) marks each. Learners are required to answer any two (02) questions only. (2×15=30)
1. What are the three stages of Wordsworth’s approach to nature? How is his mature approach to nature distinct from his boyhood and youthful approaches ?

2. Write an essay explaining Emily Dickinson’s views on the Afterlife.
3. Discuss Sarojini Naidu’s poems as Indian in thought and spirit.
4. Critically analyse Tennyson’s “Ulysses” in your own words.

Section – B : (Short Answer Type Questions)
Note : Section ‘B’ contains eight (08) short-answer-type questions of five (05) marks each. Learners are required to answer any four (04) questions only. (4×5=20)
1. A critic once referred to “Lycidas” as one of the most perfect poems. Do you agree ? Why or why not ?
2. Why must the Mariner continue with his Penance. Why must he repeat his tale to everyone he can fix with his gaze ?

3. What aspect of life does Lancelot represent that makes “real life” so attractive for the lady? What imagery and diction does Tennyson use to make Lancelot so attractive ? What pattern is there to these choices?

4. What is the tone of “Break, Break, Break” and how does Tennyson use sound and imagery to create that tone?
5. Explain how the Duke’s attitudes towards art and artists as revealed in the poem “My Last Duchess”.

6. How does the poem “Dover Beach” relate to the theme of isolation?
7. “The Darkling Thrush”, Is this a poem about the end of the nineteenth century or the beginning of the twentieth? How does this decision change your reading of the poem ?
8. What regret does the poet express in the first stanze of the poem “The Road Not Taken”?