Past Paper Classical Poetry 2015 | M.A. English Part I (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

Attempt any FOUR questions including question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. 

1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following.

(i) And yet he was but esy of dispence;

He kepte that he was in pestilence.

For gold in phisik is a cordial;

Therefore he lovede gold in special

(ii) He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;

Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend;

Some third the mazy ringlets of her hair,

With beating hearts the dire events they wait,

Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.

(iii) In Battles feign'd; the better fortitude

Of Pafience and Heroic Martydom

Unsung; or to describe Races and Games

(iv) More subtle than then the parent is

Love must note be, but take a body too,

And therefore what thou wert, and who,

I bid Love aske, and now

(v) But she that taught me love and suffer pain

My doubtful hop and eke my hot desire

With shamfast look to shadow and refrain

2. In the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales", Chaucer exhibits an unusual tolerance of human weakness. Discuss. 

3. Discuss Eve's character in the light of Temptation Scene in Book IX. 

4. Why is Pope considered a representative poet of the 18th century England? Elaborate your answer with reference to his poem "The Rape of the Lock". 

5. Write a detailed note on the theme of love in Wyatt. 

6. "Images can be used in two ways, as simile or as metaphor: simile compares, but metaphor feigns the identity of the objects". Is this definition application to Donne's poems in your course?

7. Write a critical note on the following;

(i) So Cruel Prison

(ii) Imagery in Donne