Modern Poetry - Past Papers - MA English Literature - Part 2 - Sargodha University

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Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Total Marks: 100
Passing Marks: 40 (As of 2020)
Note: Objective part is compulsory. Attempt any four questions from the subjective part.

2022 IIA

Short Questions

  1. Define literary term Lyric, Give examples. 
  2. What is imagery? Give examples.
  3. Define personification. Give examples.
  4. Give the central idea of the poem "Ode on Immortality" by William Words Worth.
  5. What are the distinctive traits of Divine image according to William Blake and how can we inculcate these traits in ourselves?
  6. What is the major theme of the poem "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by P.B. Shelley?
  7. What is the message that Philip Larkin wants to convey in his poem "1914*?
  8. How does W.B Yeats express his feelings of regret and loss in his poem "The Wild Swans at Coole"?
  9. Explain the given lines with reference to the poem and the poet.
                The best lack all convictions, while the worst
                Are full of passionate intensity
      10. Explain the given lines with reference to the poem and the poet.
                Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
                As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf

Long Questions

  1. Critically examine Words Worth's theory of poetic diction. Does it sustain its importance in the present age?
  2. How logically John Keats establishes the supremacy of Art over life in his poem *Ode On a Grecian Urn" Give sold arguments.
  3. Compare William Blake's "Songs of Innocence with Songs of Experience".
  4. Critically evaluate T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
  5. Write a comprehensive note on W.B. Yeats' symbolism.
  6. Discuss the major themes in Philip Larkin's poetry.

2022

Short Questions

  1. Compare and contrast the persistent traits of Romantic Poetry with Classical Poetry. 
  2. According to Williams Wordsworth, what type of diction should be employed in poetry?
  3. Definite Ode. Give example. 
  4. What's the central idea of the poem, "A Poison Tree"? 
  5. What change does Wordsworth feel after his visit to Tintern Abbey? 
  6. Why does Keats consider Nightingale an immortal bird? 
  7. What's the theme of the poem, "Ambulances". 
  8. How does Eliot demonstrate the trails of Modern Man through "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? 
9. Explain the given lines by mentioning the name of the poet and the poem: 
A prophecy: Poetic numbers came
Spontaneously and cloth'd in priestly robe
10. Explain the given lines by mentioning the name of the poet and the poem: 
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter, therefore, Ye soft pipes, play on. 

Long Questions

  1. Willar Words Worth, by many critics, is considered as great a post of man as he is of nature. What is your opinion?
  2. John Keats is at the climax of his poetical career in his odes. Comment
  3. William Blake is fundamentally and primarily a mystic poet. Elaborate
  4. Evaluate critically P.B. Shelley's poem "To a Skylark".
  5. How bas W.B. Yeats depicted the deplorable condition of absolute anarchy in the world after the First World War in his poem *The Second Coming"?
  6. Discuss Philip Larkin's disgust and concern about religion in his poem "Church Going".

2021

Short Questions

  1. Describe the distinctive features of Romantic Poetry.
  2. Define alliteration. Give an example
  3. What is the central idea of the poem "The Chimney Sweepers" by William Blake?
  4. What type of memories Wordsworth recalls in the "Prelude"?
  5. Why does John Keats call the Grecian Urn Sylvan Historian"?
  6. What is the theme of poem "When You are Old" by WB Yeats?
  7. What type of impression we gather about Philip Larkin's personality after reading his poem Mr. Bleaney"
  8. What does "West Wind" symbolize?
  9. Explain the given lines with reference to the poem and the Port
    And the round ocean and the living ait,
    And the blue sky, and in the mind of man
    A Motion and a Spirit, that impels.
10. Explain the given lines with reference to the poem and the Poet
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drink

Long Questions

  1. Examine Compton Ricket's view that "it was Words Worth's aim as a poet to seek for beauty in meadow, wood land and the mountain top and to interpret this beauty in spiritual terms. He is forever spiritualizing the moods of nature and winning for them moral consolation".
  2. Philip Larkin is often criticized for his pessimistic view of life. What is your opinion'? Give arguments from his poems.
  3. William Blake's poetry presents a moral code to live life peacefully and successfully. Elaborate
  4. How does TS Eliot point out the moral decadence of the society of his time in his poem "The. Waste Land"
  5. Critically evaluate the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Years,
  6. Write a critical note on Keats' sensuousness.

2020

Short Questions

  1. Define Romantic age in your own words?
  2. What is the major theme in the poem THE LITTLE BLACK BOY?
  3. What is the central idea of the poem TO A SKYLARK?
  4. What type of memories Wordsworth recalls in TENTERN ABBEY?
5. Explain the given lines with the name of the poet and the poem in your own words
A Thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness
6. Explain the lines with name of the poet and the poem in your own words
Where are the songs of the spring? 
Ay where are they? 
think not of them thou hast thy music too
7. Write a note on the poetry of Philip Larkin in your own words?
8. What is central idea of the poem Church Going?
9. What is the central idea of the poem When You are old?
10. What is the main idea of the poem THE DIVINE IMAGE

Long Questions

  1. Analyze the significance of the poem TINTERN ABBEY as a poetic creed and sweet memories linked to a place in a superb language.
  2. John Keats is in his apex of poetic glory in his poem ODE ON A GRECIAN URN. Explain.
  3. TS ELIOT represents the dilemma of the present age with all its dark features in the WASTE LAND. Elaborate
  4. Critically analyze the poetic qualities of W B YEATS in the light of the poem NO SECOND TROY?
  5. Elucidate the salient features in the Ode to the West Wind in your own perspective? How far it represents the rebellious nature of P B SHELLEY.
  6. Critically estimate William Blake as a Romanic precursor in the light of his poems that you have studied?

2019

Short Questions

  1. Define Romantic age in your own words?
  2. What is the major theme in the poem THE DIVINE IMAGE?
3. Explain the given lines with the name of the poet and the poem in your own words
A bower quiet for us and a steep
But still will keep
Full of sweet dreams and heath and a quiet breathing 
4. Explain the lines with name of the poet and the poem in your own words
Where are the songs of the spring? Ay where are they? think not of them thou hast thy music too
5. What is the central idea of the poem Wild Swans At Coole?
6. What is central idea of the poem Mr. Bleany?
7. What is the central idea of the poem TINTERN ABBEY? 
8. What type of memories Words Worth recalls in the PRELUDE?
9. Write a note on the life of Philip Larkin in your own words?
10. What is negative capability?

Long Questions

  1. Critically analyze the poem The Prelude in your own words. What is the significance of the poem for the readers of 21" century?
  2. Critically elucidate the salient features of the ROMANITC AGE in your own perspective?
  3. Critically analyze the poetic qualities of WB YEATS in the light of the themes of his poem THE SECOND COMING?
  4. John Keats is in his apex of poetic glory in his poem ODE ON A GRECIAN URN. Explain. How does TS ELIOT represent the ills of the modern age in his epic poem THE WASTE
  5. LAND. Elaborate
  6. Critically elaborate the poem THE POISON TREE in your own words.

2018

Short Questions

  1. What is dualism in Blake's poetry?
  2. Define symbolism.
  3. Define realism.
  4. Why does Shelley call the West Wind "destroyer and preserver"?
  5. Define "Spiritus Mundi" in "The Second Coming" by W.B.Yeats.
  6. How does Larkin show his disrespect to church?
  7. Why does T.S.Eliot call London "Unreal City"?
  8. But those unheard are sweeter".
  9. Why did Wordsworth visit Tintern Abbey in 17987
  10. Explain "Heard melodies are sweet
  11. Explain the term "experience" used in Blake's poetry.

Long Questions

  1. Discuss Blake as a romantic poet with reference to his poems included in your course of studies.
  2. Trace out Wordsworth's development of love for nature as revealed in "Tintern Abbey".
  3. "The Wasteland" ruthlessly describes the moral bankruptcy of the modern man. Discuss.
  4. Shelley's God is the God you and I worship, yet he is branded as an atheist. What is your opinion after reading "Human to Intellectual Beauty"?
  5. Discuss W.B.Yeats as a modern poet.
  6. "Ode to Autumn" is considered as a consummate picce of art. Elaborate your views.
    OR
    "Church Going" by Larkin shows the poet's agnostic beliefs. How?

2017

Short Questions

  1. What is mysticism?
  2. What do “Songs of Innocence” signify?
  3. Define romanticism.
  4. Define pantheism.
  5. Why did Wordsworth pay his first visit to Tintern Abbey in 1793?
  6. Define Ode.
  7. Why does Keats call urn “Sylvan Historian”?
  8. Explain “Those were pearls that were his eyes”.
  9. What is the significance of “Uneven Lines”?
  10. Why does Shelley call the west wind “destroyer and preserver”?

Long Questions

  1. Bring out clearly the transition from the “Songs of Innocence” to the “Songs of Experience”.
  2. Critically examine Wordsworth’s poem “Ode: Immortality”.
  3. “Shelley’s poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” reveals his rejection of orthodox belief”. What is your opinion after reading this poem?
  4. Discuss Keats as a writer of Odes.
  5. “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot reveals moral bankruptcy of the modern civilization. Elucidate.
  6. Critically examine “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats.                                        OR
    “Philip Larkin is the saddest soul on the modern world’s supermarket”. (Eric Hamburgar). Elucidate.

2016

Short Questions

  1. What is the four divine qualities in the “The Divine Image”?
  2. Define mysticism.
  3. Why did Wordsworth visit Tintern Abbey in 1793?
  4. What does Wordsworth mean by Nature? 
  5. What is the underlying message in “Ode to the West Wind”
  6. How is the Urn “Sylvan historian”? 
  7. Define escapism
  8. What type of man is Prufrock?
  9. How does Yeats compare Ireland with Troy?
  10. What is Larkin’s attitude to World War-I in 1914?

Long Questions

  1. Discuss William Blake as an early romantic poet.
  2. Illustrate the difference between Wordsworth’s two visits to Tintern Abbey in 1793 and 1798?
  3. What attitude to religion does Shelley reveal in “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”?
  4. Discuss “The Wasteland” as a modern epic.
  5. Critically analyze “Ode on a Grecian Urn” By Keats.
  6. Evaluate either “Church Going” by Larkin or “The Second Coming” by Yeats.

2015

Short Questions

  1. Define mysticism.
  2. Define romanticism
  3. Why is Blake called a visionary poet?
  4. Define ode
  5. Define pantheism
  6. Define absurdism.
  7. What is negative capability?
  8. Why does Eliot call the modern civilization ‘Wasteland’?
  9. What do the ‘dark-clothed’ children signify in Larkin’s poem MCMXIV (1914)?
  10. Why does Keats call the Urn ‘Sylvan Historian’?

Long Questions

  1. Discuss William Blake as an early romantic poet.
  2. “The Prelude” is a poem on the growth of the mind of the poet (Wordsworth) Illustrate.
  3. Critically analyse “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley.
  4. “The Wasteland” is cold sigh on the modern civilization (I.A Richards) Discuss.
  5. Give a critical appraisal of “Ode to a Nightingale” by Keats.
  6. “W.B. Yeats translates Irish history, Patriotism and struggle for freedom into his poetry”. Elucidate.
    OR
    Discuss the focal theme in “Church Going” by Larkin.
2014
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