2ND YEAR EEG PAPER- 5

NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY

ENGLISH BDP

2ND YEAR

EEG

PAPER- 5

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. Comment on Coleridge’s views on Imagination

2. Comment on Wordsworth’s distinction between Imagination and Fancy in Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

3. Assess Scott’s Contribution to Historical Novels.

4. Discuss the Influence of the French Revolution on English Literature.

5. What is Romantic Poetry? Discuss its chief features.

6. What is Romanticism? How did it find its way into the English literary scenario ?/ Analyse the socio-political background of the Romantic revival./ Identify any four of the major trends of thought in the Romantic period, and discuss their application in the works of contemporary poets.

7. Who were the Precursors of the Romantic Movement? Discuss why they were called so?/ What is Romanticism? How did it find its way into the English literary scenario?

8. Write an essay on the Romantic Novel with special reference to Jane Austen and Walter Scott.

9. Analyse with textual references the aspects of Romanticism that you find in the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

ESSAYS OF ELIA

1. Analyse Lamb’s prose style with reference to his essays that are on syllabus?

2. Consider Charles Lamb as a personal essayist with reference to ‘The Superannuated Man’ and ‘Dream Children: A Reverie’. /How does Charles Lamb successfully transform episodes of personal life into literary pieces of universal interest in his essays?

3. Critically appreciate Lamb's Dream Children

4. Discuss how Lamb blends Pathos and Humour in his essays prescribed for you.

5. Discuss Lamb as a Romantic essayist.

WILLIAM BLAKE

1. Draw comparison between William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

2. How does ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, poems of Blake glorify innocence against a gloomy social background?

S. T. COLERIDGE

1. Is it possible to read ‘Christabel’ as an allegorical poem? Substantiate with textual references.

2. Show how Coleridge evokes the medieval atmosphere in Christabel?

3. Show how Christabel naturalizes the supernatural.

4. What is your impression of Geraldine in ‘Christabel’? Answer with textual references.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

1. Discuss how William Hazlitt expresses his romantic love of nature in “On Going a Journey”.

JOHN KEATS

1. Briefly discuss the symbolism in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.

2. Comment on the contrast between transience and permanence as you find it in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.

3. Comment on the sensuousness of Keats’ poetry with reference to “Ode to a Nightingale”

4. Trace the evolution of thought in Ode to a Nightingale

5. Examine the romantic qualities in Keats’ poetry with reference to Ode to a Nightingale?

P. B. SHELLEY

1. Examine the impact of the West Wind on the land, the sky, the sea and the poet himself as described in the poem Ode to the West Wind?

2. How does Shelley describe the workings of “The Wild Spirit...Destroyer and Preserver”?

3. Shelley’s poetry is a vehicle of his prophetic mind – Discuss with reference to ‘Ode to the West Wind’.

                                       WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1. Analyse the different phases of Wordsworth’s relationship with nature as found in ‘Tintern Abbey’.

2. Explain the relevance of the concluding portion of “Tintern Abbey” with close textual references to support your argument.

PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS

1. Discuss Wordsworth's views on the language (diction) in which poetry should be written. Or, Wordsworth theory of poetic diction

2. Examine critically Wordsworth's views on the nature of poetry and the process of poetic creation. Or Wordsworth’s view on poetry

3. In what ways can Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads be considered a manifesto of the Romantic Movement? Discuss with close reference to the text.

4. Discuss Wordsworth’s view on Poet

5. Discuss Wordsworth's view on subject matter/ themes of poetry

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

1. Analyse the character of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.

2. Discuss the themes of love, money and marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

3. Comment on the use of irony and humour in Pride and Prejudice.

4. Discuss Pride and Prejudice as a Domestic Novel/Social Novel.

5. Comment on the structure of Plot in Pride and Prejudice.

6. Comment on the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy.

7. Discuss Jane Austen’s treatment of women characters in Pride and Prejudice.

8. Can “Pride and Prejudice” be regarded as a commentary on the theme of love and marriage?

9. Critically examine the appropriateness of the title “Pride and Prejudice.”

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