NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Assignment : June-2020/December-2020
ENGLISH ( Paper-I : Poetry )
SECTION – A
Answer any two of the following questions : 18 × 2 = 36
1. Bring out the thematic significance of the first eighteen lines of Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Click Here
2. Do you accept the view that Edmund Spenser's Sonnet IX ("Long while I sought to what I might compare") is typically a Petrarchan love poem ? Give reasons for your answer. Click Here
3. "The Extasie" is an unambiguous expression of Donne's philosophy of love. Analyse the poem in the light of the statement. Click Here
4. Discuss to what extent Keats succeeds in resolving the tension between the ideal and the real in "Ode to A Nightingale." Click Here
SECTION – B
5. Critically comment on Dryden's use of the Bible in Absalom and Achitophel (Part-I). Click Here
6. Discuss how Milton makes use of the epic conventions of 'Invocation' and 'Proposition in Paradise Lost (Book I) in an unconventional fashion. Click Here
7. Discuss Resolution and Independence as a narrative poem. Click Here
8. "No coward soul is mine" registers the poet's profound mystical perception of life. Discuss. Click Here
9. Comment on T. S. Eliot's employment of urban imagery in Section III of The Waste Land. Click Here
10. Critically analyse Dylan Thomas's poem "This Bread I Break." Click Here
SECTION – C
a) "Let Austyn have his swynk to hym reserved!
Therefore he was a prika sour aright.
Grehoundes he hadde as swift as fowl in flight;
Of prikying and of huntyng for the hare
Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare." Click Here
b) "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish Time." Click Here
c) "Call us what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly;
We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find the eagle and the dove." Click Here
d) "Of these the false Achitophel was first;
A name to all succeeding ages cursed;
For close designs, and crooked counsels fit;
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of hit." Click Here
e) "His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise."Click Here
f) "I am grown peaceful as old age tonight
I regret little, I would change still less,
Since there my past life lies, why alter it ?" Click Here
g) "April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain." Click Here
h) An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress." Click Here
i) "All breathing human passions far above,
That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloy'd
A burning forehead and a parching tongue. Click Here
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