NSOU ENGLISH PG PAPER 1

NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY

ENGLISH 

1ST YEAR

PG

PAPER- 1

1. Discuss to what extent Arnold's definition of poetry as "the criticism of life" applicable to Arnold's The Scholar Gipsy.

2. The "Scholar Gipsy" is a critique of Victorian life. Discuss.

3. W. H. Auden’s ‘The Unknown Citizen’ is a poetic commentary on the irony and pathos of modern life. Discuss

4. Bring out the distinctive features of Chaucer’s art of characterization with particular reference to any two ecclesiastical figures in Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

5. Bring out the thematic significance of the first 18 lines in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Analyse critically the themes and ideas presented in the first 18 lines of Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. What are the themes and ideas presented in the opening lines of the ‘Prologue’?

6. Consider kubla khan as an example Romantic poem. Or Bring out the romantic features of kubla khan.

7. Write a short critical note on the use of the Bible in Absalom and Achitophel.

8. Attempt a critical analysis of This Bread I Break.

9. Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" is a recollection of the poet's childhood memories. Analyse the poem in the light of the statement.

10. Bring out the appropriateness of T. S. Eliot’s use of urban imagery in The Waste Land

11. Attempt a critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "How Do I Love Thee". / Consider Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How do I love thee ...?’ as a love poem

12. Consider Emily Brontë's 'No Coward Soul of Mine' as a devotional poem. /No Coward Soul is Mine is a poem about death and parting. Justify the statement./Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem. / Would you agree with the view that ‘No Coward Soul is Mine’ presents a personal solution to the problem of faith?

13. Bring out the epic qualities in Paradise Lost (Book I).

14. Critically analyse the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost (Book I)/ Bring out the significance of the Invocation of Paradise Lost.

15. Discuss to what extent Paradise Lost (Book-I) follows the conventions of an epic.

16. Satan as a Renaissance Hero/ Satan as a Fallen Hero/ Satan’s False Heroism/Analyse Satan's address to Beelzebub in Paradise Lost (Book I). How does it reflect the heroic qualities of Satan?

17. Discuss how Keats deals with the theme of transience and permanence in Ode on a Grecian Urn.

18. Critically analyse Philip Larkin's poem "The Whitsun Weddings".

19. Comment on Marvell’s treatment of nature in ‘The Garden’.

20. Consider “The Ecstasy” as a metaphysical poem.

21. Discuss how Donne combines emotion with intellect in "The Canonization".

22. Discuss to what extent Donne in his love poems goes against the conventions of the courtly tradition of love poetry. Substantiate you answer with special references to the poems in your syllabus.

23. Write a critical note on "The Pulley" as a religious poem./ Comment on the title of the poem “The Pulley”/ Discuss “The Pulley” as a metaphysical poem.

24. Critically analyse An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot as a Horatian satire.

25. Write a critical note on Pope’s use of imagery in An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

26. Do you agree with the view that Browning's characterisation of Andrea Del Sarto moves between "sympathy and judgement" ?/Do you think that the readers move between ‘sympathy and judgement’ in their response to the portrayal of Andrea in Browning’s poem ? Give reasons for your answer.

27. Attempt a critical analysis of Shakespeare's sonnet 19. Briefly explain why it is looked upon as a 'procreation sonnet'.

28. Comment on Shakespeare's use of the Time and Love theme in the sonnets prescribed in your syllabus.

29. Critically analyse Shakespeare Sonnet 55 ( “Notmarble, nor the gilded monuments” ).

30. Shakespeare's sonnet 116 announces "a definite step in the poet's war against time". Analyse the poem in the light of this statement.

31. Assess Edmund Spenser as a pictorial artist with special reference to the excerpts fromThe Faerie Queene.

32. Bring out the distinctive features of Spenser’s poetic art with reference to his description of the Bower of Bliss.

33. Discuss to what extent Spenser's idealisation of the beauty of his beloved in Sonnet IX ("Longwhile I sought to what I might compare") is Petrarchan. Answer with close reference to the text.

34. Discuss The Faerie Queene, Book 1 as an allegory.

35. Critically analyse Resolution and Independence as a narrative poem

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