Bankura University English Honours Suggestion 2024
Paper-C5
Course Code: AH/ENG 301/C-5
Course Title: British Romantic Literature
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Attempt a comparative study of Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”.
b) Discuss Wordsworth’s “Ode to Immortality” as a romantic poem.
c) Illustrate the three different stages of development in Wordsworth’s attitude to Nature as you find in his poem ‘Tintern Abbey’.
d) Would you consider Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ as a fragment or an artistic whole? Discuss
(e) Trace the progression in the poet’s relationship with Nature as you find in Wordsworth’s
poem “Tintern Abbey”.
f) Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” is a poem on poetry and poetic inspiration. — Discus
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Examine Shelley’s treatment of nature in “Ode to the West Wind”.
b) Examine Keats’ use of imagery in “Ode to Autumn”.
c) Critically consider P. B. Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’ as a romantic poem.
d) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a critical response to the scientific revolution in the sixteenth century. Discuss.
(e) Comment on Shelley’s use of imagery in “Ode to the west wind”?.
(f) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shows how civilisation corrupts an essentially benevolent being into a demon. — Discuss.
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Assess the importance of S. T. Coleridge as a romantic poet.
b) Give an account of the nonfictional prose in the Romantic period.
c) Assess the contribution of Jane Austen to English fiction in the Romantic Age.
d) Write a note on the works of one major English Lake poet
(e) Write a brief essay on any one of the novelists of the Romantic Period.\
(f) Write a note on Romantic poetry with special reference to any two of the poet
4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2= 10
Part-A
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?
Part-B
a) “The things which I have seen I now can see no more” – Which “things” had the speaker seen earlier?
b) “These beauteous forms/through a long absence have not been to me” – Comment briefly on the beauteous forms absented from the poet’s vision.
c) In ‘Ode to the West Wind’ what does Shelley see beside a pumice isle? Comment on the significance of the image.
d) Who is referred to as Childe Harold? What does the term “Childe” mean in Byron’s poem? e) “It was a miracle of rare device” – Comment on the miracle being referred to.
f) What does the word “burning” evoke about the tiger in Blake’s poem?
g) Briefly explore the significance of the phrase “ripeness to the core”.
h) “Where are the songs of spring?” – How is this anguish engaged with in John Keats’s poem?
i) Why does Mary Shelley call Frankenstein a “modern Prometheus”?
j) Why did Frankenstein create the monster
Part-C
(a) What is the full title of “Tintern Abbey”? Whom does the poet address as ‘My dear, dear
Friend’?
(b) Who is compared to ‘fierce Maenad’ and why?
(c) Who is the ‘Mighty Prophet’? Why is he called ‘seer blest’?
(d) “Conqueror and captive of the earth art thou!”— Comment on the line.
(e) “It was a miracle of rare device.” — Comment.
(f) What is meant by the phrase ‘fearful symmetry’?
(g) “Until they think warm days will never cease.” Who are ‘thay’? Why do ‘thay’ think so?
(h) “Did he who made the lamb make thee”? Briefly explain.
(i) Who is M. Krempe? How does he influence Frankenstein?
(j) Briefly narrate the terrible event Frankenstein witnessed when he was about fifteen years old.
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