Suggestion for B.A. 3rd Semester English Honours Examination, 2023
Bankura University
Course Code: AH/ENG/301/C-5
Course Title: British Romantic Literature
Full Marks: 40
1.Answer any one of the following questions:10x1=10
(a) Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is a poem on poetry and poetic inspiration.- Discuss.
(b)Trace the progression in the poet's relationship with Nature as you find in Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey".
(c) Discuss the comparation and contrast between The Lamb and The Tyger giving reference to 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience'.*****
(d) Give a critical appreciation of William Blake's poem "The Tyger".10******
(e) Would you consider Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" as 'fragment' or an artistic whole? Discuss.
f) Attempt a comparative study of Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger".
g) Discuss Wordsworth's "Ode to Immortality" as a romantic poem.
2.Answer any one of the following questions:10x1=10
(a)Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows how civilization corrupts an essentially benevolent being into a demon.- Discuss.
b)Why is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein more than a Gothic novel? What element does it have in common with gothic novel ?
(c) Sketch the character of Frankenstein and the monster.
(d) Comment on Shelley's use of imagery in "Ode to the west wind"? .
e) Examine Shelley's treatment of nature in "Ode to the West Wind".
f) Examine Keats' use of imagery in "Ode to Autumn".
d) Critically consider P. B. Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" as an ode.
(e) Discuss how Keats glorifies Autumn in his "Ode" referring to the rich imagery in the poem.
3.Answer any one of the following questions:10x1=1
(a) Why was the Romantic age called '' the age of revolution". Why was William Wordsworth called the poet of nature ?
(b) Write a note on Romantic poetry with special reference to any two of the poets.
(c)Write a brief essay on any one of the novelists of the Romantic Period.
(d) Discuss the characteristics of the Romantic Period. Discuss the works Wordsworth ,Shelley and Coleridge.
e) Assess the importance of S. T. Coleridge as a romantic poet.
f) Give an account of the nonfictional prose in the Romantic period.
g) Write an essay on the development of the non-fictional prose in the Romantic period.10
(h) Assess the importance of William Wordsworth as a Romantic poet.
i)Assess the contribution of Jane Austen to English fiction in the Romantic Age. X
j) Write a note on the works of one major English Lake poet.X
4. Answer any five of the following questions: marks 2
(a) Who is M. Krempe ? How does he influence Frankenstein?
(b) Who is compared to 'fierce Maenad' and why?
(c) "Did he who made the lamb make thee"? Briefly explain.
(d) "Conqueror and captive of the earth art thou!"- Comment on the line.
(e)Who is the Mighty Prophet? Why is he called "seer blest "?
(f) Briefly narrate the terrible event Frankenstein witnessed when he was about fifteen years old.
(g) "Until they think warm days will never cease." Who are "they"? Why do "they" think so?
(h) "It was a miracle of rare device."-Comment.
(i) What is the full title of "Tintern Abbey"? Whom does the poet address as 'My dear, dear Friend"?
(j)What is meant by the phrase 'fearful symmetry"?
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a) "How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee"-To whom did the speaker turn and why?
b) "And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far" What did Kubla hear?
c) "Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore"- What is fatal to the person who bears and why?
d) "Thus ended a day memorable to me"- Briefly bring out the memorable experience of the speaker.
e) "Tis but a worthless world to win or lose"-Briefly explain.
f) Where and when did Wordsworth feel "a sense sublime""?
g) What is meant by "demon lover" in "Kubla Khan"?
h) What are the two major events that happened to Frankenstein when he was seventeen?
i) Who is called "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!" and why?
j) What is the relationship between Byron and Childe Harold? How many Cantos are there in Byron's poem?
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(a) "For he calls himself a Lamb"- Who is 'he'? Bring out the Biblical reference in the quoted line.
(b) "These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me"- What are 'These beauteous forms' referred to by the speaker?
(c) "For he on honey-dew hath fed, drunk the milk of Paradise"- Comment on the lines.
(d) "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"- Why does the speaker say so?
(e) "other gifts have followed..."- What 'other gifts, according to Wordsworth, did follow?
(f) "Where are the songs of spring?"- How is the question answered in John Keats' poem?
(g) "And are themselves the fools to those they fool"- Comment on the line.
(h) What two major events happened to Frankenstein when he was seventeen?
(i) What are the four seasons in the life of a man?
(j) What does the term 'Childe' mean in Byron's poem? Who is referred to as "Childe Harold"?
BY PKG Sir
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