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PROBABLE QUESTIONS FOR SEMESTER 1/ENGLISH HONOURS/2024


TO AUTUMN: KEATS

1.    CRITICAL APPRECIATION

2.    SUMMARY

3.    HOW FAR THE TITLE IS JUSTIFIED?

4.    DISCUSS THE IMAGRIES USED IN TO AUTUMN.

5.    SHOW HOW TE DIFFERENT MOODS OF KEATS ARE BROUGHT OUT?

6.    TREATMENT OF THEME AND MUTABILITY.

7.    HOW TO AUTUMN COMBINES SENSUOUSNESS WITH CONTEMPLATION.

8.    CONSIDER KEATS’STREATMENT OF LIFE, ART AND NATURE.

9.    SHOW HOW KEATS ACHIEVES PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN TRANCSIENCE AND PERMANENCE.

10. IS TO AUTUMN A ROMANTIC POEM?

 

CROW: TED HUGES

1.    CRITICAL APPRECIATION

2.    SUMMARY

3.    HOW FAR THE TITLE IS APT?

4.    SYMBOLISM USED BY TED HUGES

5.    ALLEGORIES USED BY TED HUGES

6.    TREATMENT OF ANIMAL.

7.    JUSTIFY THE BIBLICAL FALL OF SATAN AND FALL OF CROW.

8.    TREATMENT OF MYTHOLOGY IN THIS POEM.

SONNET 73: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1.    CRITICAL APPRECIATION

2.    SUMMARY

3.    HOW FAR THE TITLE IS APT AND APPROPRIATE?

4.    DISCUSS THE SYMBOLISM USED IN THE SONNET.

5.    METAPHORS AND IMAGES USED IN THIS SONNET.

6.    DISCUSS THE THEME OF MORALITY.

 

 

THE SUN RISING: JOHN DONNE

1.    CRITICAL APPRECIATION.

2.    SUMMARY.

3.    HOW FAR THE TITLE IS APPROPRIATE?

4.    TREATMENT OF METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT.

5.    TREATMENT OF THEME OF LOVE.

6.    USE OF IMAGERY.

THE SECOND COMING: W.B.YEATS

1.    CRITICAL APPRECIATION

2.    SUMMARY

3.    HOW FAR THE TITLE IS APPROPRIATE?

4.    HOW FAR IS IT A MODERISTIC POEM?

5.    DISCUSS THEME OF CHRISTIANITY

6.    DISCUSS IF THERE IS PROFOUNDEXPLORATUIN OF HISTORICAL EVENTS AND THERE IMPACT IN THIS POEM.

 

HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY – FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO MODERN AGE

1.    THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN AGE.[1485-1661]

2.    RENAISSANCE AND ITS IMPACT ON ELIZABETHAN POEMS.

3.    CHARACTERISTICS OF ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN POETRY..

4.    ELIZABETHAN SONNETS.

5.    CONTRIBUTION OF ELIZABETHAN SONNETEERS.

6.    CONTRIBUTION OF SIDNEY AND SPENCER.

7.    CONTRIBUTION OF SHAKESPERE IN ENGLISH POETRY.

8.    CONTRIBUTIONOF DONNE AND MARVELL AS METAPHYSICAL POETS.

9.    METAPHYSICAL MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH POETRY.

10. CONTRIBUTION OF JOHN MILTON IN ENGLISH POETRY WITH REFERENCE TO PARADISE LOST.

11. TOTTLE’S MISCELLANY, “AENIED”. “THE MIRROR OF MAGISTRATES” and “INDUCTION”, “THE STEEL GLASS”, “FLOWERS”, “HERBS” and “WEEDS”. “Shepherd’s Calender”, “The Four Hymns”, Mother Husband’s Tale”, “The Complaints”, “The Amoretti”, “The Epithalamion” and the masterpiece “The Faerie Queene”.APOLOGY FOR POETRY,

 

12. POLITICAL HISTORY OF RESTORATION AND AUGUSTAN ENGLAND TO THE ADVENT OF ROMANTICICISM.[1661-1789]

13. CONTRIBUTION OF POPE.

14. ‘The Rape of the Lock,’ a satire and mock-heroic, and ‘The Dunciad.’

15. CONTRIBUTION OF JOHN DRYDEN.

16. CONTRIBUTION OF TRANSITIONAL POETS GRAY,COWPER AND GOLDSMITH.

17. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,THE DESERTED VILLAGE,

18. DISCUSS THE THEME OF MELANCHOLY AND NATURE EXPLORED BY THE TRANSITIONAL POETS.

19. CONTRIBUTION OF ROBERT BURNS.

20. THE IMPACT OF FRENCH REVOLUTIONON THE ENGLISH LITERY MOVEMENT.

 

ROMANTIC PERIOD [1789-1832]

 

21. THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT OF ENGLISH POETRY: A RETURN TO NATURE.

22. CONTRIBUTIONS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.

23. TREATMENT OF NATURE AND HUMAN SPIRITIN THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

24. COLERIDGE WAS MASTER OF IMAGINATION ANDMETAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY.

25. JOHN KEATS TREATMENT OF BEAUTY, SENSUALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE.

26. DISCUSS SHELLEY’S QUEST FOR LIBERTY, BEAUTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

27. DISCUSS BYRON JOURNEY OF PASSION, REBELLION AND ROMANTICISM.

28. CONTRIBUTION OF FEMALE ROMANTIC POETESSES.

29. LYRICAL BALLADS,IN MEMORIUM,

 

30. THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL CONDITION OF19th CENTURY ENGLAND.[1932-1900]

31. CHARACTERIST OF VICTORIAN POETRY.

32. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LORD TENNYSON IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

33. CONTRIBUTIONS OF MATHEW ARNOLD IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

34. CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT BROWNING IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

35. CONTRIBUTIONS OF ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

36. CONTRIBUTIONS OF GERARD M. HOPKINS IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

37. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LORD TENNYSON IN VICTORIAN POETRY.

38. PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT IN POETRY.

39. CONTRIBUTIONS OF VICTORIAN FEMALE POETS.

 

40. SOCIO- ECONOMIC CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN BETWEEN 1900-1945

41. SALIENT FEATURES OF MODERN POETRYTILL 1945

42. WRITE A COMPERATIVE STUDY OF GEORGIAN AND IMAGIST POETRY.

43. THE IMPACT OF THE POETRY OF RUPERT BROOK,WILFRED OWEN AND SASSOON.

44. CONTRIBUTIONS OF TWO IRISH POETS W.B. YEATS AND T.S ELIOT.

45. ARE EZRA POUND,AUDEN AND WILLIAM EMPSON ARE THE PIONEERS OF MODERN ENGLISH POEMS.

46. DO SCOTTISH AND WELSH POET CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO ENGLISH POETRY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY.

47. ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH POETRYBETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS.

 

 

48. SOCIO- ECONOMIC POLITICAL CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN BETWEEN ENGLAND FROM1945-2000 AD

49. EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH POETRYIN BETWEEN 1945 -2000 AD

50. CONTRIBUTION OF SYLVIA PLATH,ALLEN GINSBERG.

51. CONTRIBUTION OF  AND DERECK WALCOT.SEAMUS HEAMEY,

52. CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENGLISH POETS AFTER 2000 AD

 

 

 

 

 


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