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BA DEGREE (CBCS)
EXAMINATION, OCTOBER 2019
Third Semester
CORE CoURSE -EN3CRT04 SYMPHONY OF VERSE
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1. What did the poet find for the ill fated death of
reason
Lycidas?
2. What mode did the metaphysical poets reacted against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan
verse?
4. In what ways do the leaves compare to the "pestilence-stricken multitudes in "Ode to the West
Wind"?
5. What is the salience of Romantic spirit as seen in the sampling of poems in the coliection?
6. Cite the last line of the poem "Ulysses" and bring out its significance.
7 What did Porphyria's lover do at the height of their passionate encounter and why?
8. "And down the long cool platforms whoops and skirls"; give a critical commentary of the given
line in the poem "The Whisun Weddings'.
9. "What a trash/ To annihilate each decade." Name the poem from which the given line is quoted.
10. Who are the people referred to as "Second hand Europeans" by A.D. Hope?
, How does the poem "Phenomenal Woman" make use ofthe technique of repetition?
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Answer any six queslions
19. Comment on the images of decay that T.S. Eliot uses in the poem "Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock".
20. Reflect on the general outlook of contemporary poetry as seen in the collection of poems from the
continent
22. What characteristics features of the ode are seen in the poem "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"?
23. Reflect on the general features of Victorian poctry as expressing a spirit of imperialism.
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