Total Printed Pages :4] [Roll No... M/Sem 1/366 M. A. Semester | Examination, 2016-17 ENGLISH Paper : Course-2 : Poetry-I (Chaucer to Blake) - Eng - 102 Time : Three Hours ] | Full Marks :70 [Write your Roll No. at the top immediately on the receipt of this question paper.] Note: Attempt all Sections. Candidates are required to write answers in their own words as far as practicable. The figures in the right hand margin indicate marks. SECTION -A Note: Long answer type questions to be answered in about 500 words each. AZ. Clothes provide Chaucer with a language of social definition and comment. Discuss the author's use of attire to salirise any three, characters of the General Prologue. 12— Sem 1/366 OR ‘Though Milton’s epic deals with man’s disobedience toward God, Book I of Paradise Lost records the transformation of Lucifer into Satan. Comment, A ‘Exemine critically how the form of "The Rape of the Lock" allows Pope to Mock contemporary society in its very failure to rise up to epic standards. 2 oR Consider how the poems of William Blake prescribed in your syllabus are symptomatic of the poet's own system of symbolism. SECTION-B 3. Explain with reference to the context any three of the following passages in about 200 words each: 3 x 6 (a¥ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, " Tsummon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, [And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste (by A naked thinking heart, that makes no show . Is toa woman buta kind of ghost - How shall she knbw my heart; or having none, | Know thee for one ? og (0). Receive the new possessor — one who brings | ‘A mind not to be changed by place or time ‘The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. (2) 0 M/Sem 1/366 (d) Her lively looks a sprightly mind Disclose, ¢ Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as thoset Favours to none to all she smiles extends, Of she rejects, but never once offends. {GY Forthem no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care. No children run to lisp their sire's return, ‘Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. SECTION-C 4. Answer any three of the following in about 200 words cach: 3x6 (of Can Chaucer's knight be said to fit the stereotype of the old fashioned Chivalric warrior ? Justify your answer with reference to his depiction in the General Prologue. LY’ Shakespeare's Sonnet number 30 resorts to the legal and financial language of the times. Draw ‘out references from the poem to substantiate the above claim. (©). Write a critical note on Dr. Johnson's reservations against the metaphysical school of poetry. (ay Analyse the significance of the prediction of ‘the conversion of the Jews’ as alluded to in Maxvell' To His Coy Mishess - 8 wi (@) What is the significance of the epitaph in the poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’? (3) P.T.O.M/Sem 1/366 SECTION - D 5. Answer the following in a word, expression a sentence each : 10x1 (a) Complete the following line of the couplet of Sonnet 18. fs Jong as men can breathe or eyes can see. (b) ‘Name the first pointed anthology of English poetry published in 1557. (c)_ Which character in 'the General Prologue’ loves to feed on ‘a fat swan’? (d Belinda's cards serve as amock epic substitute for what? (ce) Define a heroic couplet. (f) How old was the squire at the time of his pilgrimage to Canterbury ? (g) Name the text written by Blake in ifitation of biblical prophecy. (h) Name the devil who builds Pandemonium. (i) In which essay did T. S. Fliot first use the term ‘dissociation of sensibility’. (j) Where is the location of the parish church that serves as the background of Gray's Elegy’ ? (4) 500