Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. Question No. 1 is compulory.
1. Attempt any FOUR of the following with reference to the context.
(i) And I water'd it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
And sunned it with smiles,
And with soft decietful wiles.
(ii) A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A stifled, drowsy unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear --
(iii) Forlon! The very work is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
(iv) Someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious.
(v) The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed
(vi) I could risk blasphemy,
Consecrate the cauldron bog
Our holy ground and pray ...
2. How does Hughes use animals in his verse? Answer with detail textual reference.
3. Discuss the role of irony in any two poems by Larkin.
4. What is the value of Albatross in the "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner"?
5. How does the structur of "Hyperion Book I" support its themes?
6. How are the preceptions of the child and the adult presented in "Songs of Innocence and Experience"?
7. What according to Heaney is the role of curiosity and fear in the development of the artist?
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