Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. Question No. 1 is compulsory.
1. Attempt any FOUR of the following with reference to the context.
(i) Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty?
(ii) Oh Sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gengle sleep from heaven,
The slid into my soul.
(iii) Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird!
(iv) The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
(v) So we stood, alive in the river of light
Among the creatures of light, creatures of light
(vi) ... To se his peat-brown head,
The mild pods of his eyelids,
His pointed skin cap.
2. Larkin's poems move from the particular to the general. What impact does this have on the reader? Answer with detailed reference to any two of his poems.
3. Discuss consciousness and the surreal in "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner".
4. How does the imagery in "Hyperion Book I" support its themes?
5. How is the title "Songs of Experience" capable of more than one interpretation?
6. Discuss the concept of purposeful movement in the poems of Ted Hughes.
7. What value does Heaney ascribe to contraries in his verse?
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