Northern University Bangladesh

Department of English
Semester Final Examination (Spring 2020)
Course Code: ENG 2313, Course Title: Romantic Literature - I
Time Allowed: 2 hours Full Marks: [Assignments (30)+Viva (10)]=40

Student’s Name:Tasmima Tabassum ID No.: 170170033

Marks are indicated in the right margin.

Answer the following questions:

Q1. Critically analyze the following lines taken from the poem "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (text of 1834)." Your answer should not exceed 350 words. 15

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell

To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

He went like one that hath been stunned,

And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

Answer: Coleridge first published his famous ballad, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads ,
his 1798 joint effort with his close friend and colleague William Wordsworth. The collection's publication is

often seen as the Romantic Movement's true inception. Well the has total seven stanza and the discussion
is going to be on the seventh/last one. The analysis about the following lines are given bellow :
In the first four line The Ancient Mariner, express a hearty farewell to the wedding guest and also gave

him advice. He tells the letter to remember that he who loves all human beings,animals birds and pray
rightly. Now coming to the second four lines here we see that the Mariner repeats that he who loves

great and small creatures most sincerely also prays to God more earnestly . he believes that God made all
the creatures lovingly so the Mariner also love them all equally . In the next four lines talked about the

Mariner whose eyes were bright and beards were gray for old age he was gone without attending the
Wedding-feast in bridegroom's house.

Now comes the last lines of the part-7 of the poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" where the poet tells us
the way he walked like one who had been stupefied by any news. Here the word "morrow morn" means

the next morning . He was gone for his particular wisdom and when he woke up in the next morning he
was a graver and more precious than ever. The line "And is of sense forlorn" means that the wedding
guests has been forsaken by his power of judging .And lastly the guest went there home, a man who had
been greatly shocked by his senses but later on when he woke up in the next morning he was more

earnest and wiser then before. now the passage implies that the moral of the tale cast a great effect upon
his soul and mind.

Q2. Analyze the literary and poetic devices used in the poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Your
answer should not exceed 500 words. 15

Answer: "Ode to the West Wind" is an ode written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819,Italy.It was originally
published in 1820 by Charles in London as part of the collection. Well we notice that there are many literary poetic
devices used in the poem, I am going to disscuss them one by one bellow:

1. Simile:
It is a figure of speech that is used to compare a person or an object with something else. For example in
the poem there is a line " Are driven , like ghosts from an enchanter fleeting," ,Loose clouds like earth's
decaying leaves are shed.

2. Imagery:
It is used to make readers to receive things with their fifth sense. For example "dark wintery bed" it is not
a realistic thing it can only be imaged by our fifth sense. There are also more like "Angels of rain and
lightning" it is an example of visual image.

3. Alliteration:
It is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line such as the sound of "W" in the line "O wild west
wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" here the sounds of "W" are the same in "wild" ,"Wind".
4. Symbolism:
It is about using symbols to signify ideas and qualities and giving them symbolic meaning different from
literary meaning. For example "West Wind" symbolises the mighty power of nature ," dead leaves" are
symbols of death and destruction.

5. Personification:
It is about giving human qualities in objects . For example" Destroyer", "Preserver"

So last but not the least these are some of the literary devices of the poem "Ode to the West Wind".