MOCK TEST

SEM IV
1. Answer any two 10 x 2 =20
a. What is a dramatic monologue? Write a critical note on the poem My Last Duchess?
b. Comment on the romanticism portrayed in the poem Ode to Evening.
c. Attempt a critical note on the tyranny of the Duke in the poem My Last Duchess.
d. How far is Ode to Evening a poem of dedication?

2. Any two: 5 x 2 = 10
a. She had a heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

b. This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive.

c. Now teach me, maid composed,

To breathe some softened strain,
Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale
May not unseemly with its stillness suit,
As musing slow, I hail
Thy genial loved return.

d. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont,

And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve;

MOCK TEST
SEM IV
1. Answer any two 10 x 2 =20
a. What is a dramatic monologue? Write a critical note on the poem My Last Duchess?
b. Comment on romanticism portrayed in the poem Ode to Evening.
c. Attempt a critical note on the tyranny of the Duke in the poem My Last Duchess.
d. How far is Ode to Evening a poem of dedication?

2. Any two: 5 x 2 = 10
a. She had A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

b. This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive.

c. Now teach me, maid composed,

To breathe some softened strain,
Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale
May not unseemly with its stillness suit,
As musing slow, I hail
Thy genial loved return.

d. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont,

And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve;
While Summer loves to sport
Beneath thy ling'ring light;
While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves