Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain the following with reference to the context any THREE of the following stanzas.
(i) Bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss,
Tedious, unshar'd with thee and odious soon.
Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot
May joyne us, equal joy, as equal love.
Darkened so, yet shone.
(ii) Say why beauties are praised and honoured most
The wise man's passion and the vain man's toast?
Why decked with all that land and sea afford
Why angles called and angel like adored?
(iii) Wel loved the garleek, oynons, and eek leekes
And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.
(iv) If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet;
(v0 The secret groves, which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies praise
Recording soft what grace each one had found
What hopes of speed, what dreams of long delays.
2. With the Summoner and the Pardoner Chaucer loses the patience of tolerating evil in human existence. What is you point of view?
3. Do you find Satan attractive or repulsive? Draw on your reading of the text to prove your point of view.
4.. Pope exposes the follies of time in "The Rape of the Lock". Discuss with reference to the poem.
5. What makes Donne a metaphysical poet? Discuss with reference to your reading of the poems in your course.
6. Discuss Wyatt and Surrey's contribution to the development of English sonnet.
7. The Wife of Bath in "The Prologue" represents secular feminist poistion in the 14th century English Society. Discuss.
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