Test Papers / Previous Question Papers of IGNOU MEG1 British Poetry June 2005

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

MEG-1 : BRITISH POETRY

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Explain with relerence to the context, adding critical comments: 20

(a) Now Lycidas the Shepherds weep no more;

Hence forth thou art the Genius of the shore,

In thy large recompense, and shalt be good

To all that wander in that perilous flood.

OR

(b) O Lady ! in this wan and heartless mood,

To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,

All this long eve, so balmy and serene,

Have I been gazing on the western sky,

And its peculiar tint of yellow green,

2. Discuss Chaucer as a modem Poet. 20

3. Comment on the use of time and temporality in Spenser's poetry, basing your answer on the poems in your course. 20

4. Analyse and assess John Donne as a poet of love. 20

5. Write a critical appreciation of Milton's 'L'Allegro'. 20

6. Bring out the romantic elements in Keats's Hyperion : A Fragment, I. 20

7. Comment on the variety of satirical portraits in Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. 20

8. How have the questions of time, tradition and art been dealt with in Yeats's poetry ? Explain with special relerence to Adam's Curse and No Second Troy. 20