University Of Pune Question Paper
M.A. (Part - II)
ENGLISH
Poetry - I
(Paper - 3.5) (Sem. - III) (2008 Pattern)
Time :3 Hours] [Max. Marks :80
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
P582
Q1) a) Explain with reference to the context of any TWO of the following :[8]
i) Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music : do I wake up or sleep?
ii) Before me floats, an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade
iii) Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water...
iv) The women shared
The secret like a happy funeral
While girls gripping their handbags tighter, started
At a religious wounding
b) Answer any ONE of the following : [8]
i) Why does the poet prefer ‘the method of indirection?
ii) Explain the term ‘imagery’ as an element of poetry.
Q2) Answer any ONE of the following : [16]
a) John Keats blended the lyrical and the reflective mode in his great odes.
Discuss how he has managed the same in ‘Ode to Nightingale’.
b) What is the relevance of the Sanskrit words Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata
to T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’?
Q3) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : [16]
a) The theme of Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’.
b) Browning’s style in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’.
c) Auden’s appreciation of the Old Masters.
d) Byzantium as a symbol of Life beyond Death.
e) Larkin’s cynical view of weddings.
f) Dylan Thomas’s nostalgia of holidays at Fern Hill.
Q4) Attempt any ONE of the following : [16]
a) “Robert Frost uses ordinary situations and familiar images but as powerful
symbols of some deeper truth.” Discuss in the light of the poems you
have studied.
b) “Emily Dickinson exhibits immediacy of personal perception and its
universal implication.” Analyse the view in the light of her poems you
have studied.
Q5) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : [16]
a) Emerson’s use of allusions in ‘The Problem’.
b) Whitman’s use of images in ‘There Was a Child Went Forth’.
c) ‘Sunday Morning’ as a meditative poem.
d) ‘Skunk Hour’ as a poem of the time.
e) The tone of Plath’s Lady Lazarus’.
f) The significance of natural phenomena in Dickinson’s poetry.
M.A. (Part - II)
ENGLISH
Poetry - I
(Paper - 3.5) (Sem. - III) (2008 Pattern)
Time :3 Hours] [Max. Marks :80
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
P582
Q1) a) Explain with reference to the context of any TWO of the following :[8]
i) Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music : do I wake up or sleep?
ii) Before me floats, an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade
iii) Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water...
iv) The women shared
The secret like a happy funeral
While girls gripping their handbags tighter, started
At a religious wounding
b) Answer any ONE of the following : [8]
i) Why does the poet prefer ‘the method of indirection?
ii) Explain the term ‘imagery’ as an element of poetry.
Q2) Answer any ONE of the following : [16]
a) John Keats blended the lyrical and the reflective mode in his great odes.
Discuss how he has managed the same in ‘Ode to Nightingale’.
b) What is the relevance of the Sanskrit words Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata
to T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’?
Q3) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : [16]
a) The theme of Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’.
b) Browning’s style in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’.
c) Auden’s appreciation of the Old Masters.
d) Byzantium as a symbol of Life beyond Death.
e) Larkin’s cynical view of weddings.
f) Dylan Thomas’s nostalgia of holidays at Fern Hill.
Q4) Attempt any ONE of the following : [16]
a) “Robert Frost uses ordinary situations and familiar images but as powerful
symbols of some deeper truth.” Discuss in the light of the poems you
have studied.
b) “Emily Dickinson exhibits immediacy of personal perception and its
universal implication.” Analyse the view in the light of her poems you
have studied.
Q5) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : [16]
a) Emerson’s use of allusions in ‘The Problem’.
b) Whitman’s use of images in ‘There Was a Child Went Forth’.
c) ‘Sunday Morning’ as a meditative poem.
d) ‘Skunk Hour’ as a poem of the time.
e) The tone of Plath’s Lady Lazarus’.
f) The significance of natural phenomena in Dickinson’s poetry.
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