Part-A▸ Shortest Questions
01. What did Tom Dacre see in his dream?
Ans. Tom Dacre saw in his dream that thousands of his fellow sweepers locked up in black coffins and then there comes an angel with a bright key who opens the coffins and sets them all free.
02. How does the chimnery sweeper cry?
Ans. The Chimney sweeper cries in a sad note.
03. Who is Tom Dacre?
Ans. Tom Dacre is the name of another chimney sweeper. The speaker introduces his fellow chimney sweeper in the poem.
04. What is a Bard?
Ans. A Bard is a poet who sees present, past, and future.
05. What does Blake criticise in ‘Holy Thursday’?
Ans. Blake has particularly satirised the evil practices of the charity-mongers in the eighteenth century London society.
06. What do the lamb and the tiger symbolise in Blake’s, poems?
Ans. In Blake’s poems, tiger symbolises a relentless, strong, and remorseless life. It also symbolises regeneration and energy. On the
contrary, lamb symbolises innocence, meekness, and mildness.
07. Who are called the Lake Poets?
Or, Who are the ‘Lake Poets’?
Ans. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and Robert Southey are called the Lake Poets.
08. Who accompanied Wordsworth in his revisit to the bank of Wye?
Ans. His sister Dorothy accompanied the poet in his second visit to the Wye.
09. What is an ode?
Ans. Ode is an exalted lyric that begins with an address to someone expressing grief or agony but ends with consolation.
10. Who is ‘She’ in “London 1802”?
Ans. She respresents England.
11. What is the doctrine of pre-existence of human soul?
Ans. The doctrine of pre-existence of the human soul suggests that human souls had pre-natal existence in heaven or innatism before they come to earth being unites with the bodies.
12. Who is Lucy?
Ans. Lucy is a young beautiful girl. She was very dear to Wordsworth. Her real identity has not been established. Who she was, the poet does not tell us clearly. She may be an unknown maiden or Mary Hutchinson or Margaret Hutchinson or Dorothy Wordsworth or Annette Vallon.
13 Where is Tintern Abbey situatied?
Ans. Tintern Abbey is situated adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the bank of the river Wye in England.
14. What type of a poem is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
Ans. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a superb story verse in ballad tradition.
15. What does ‘a sunless sea’ signify?
Ans. ‘A sunless sea’ signifies an ‘infinity of death.
16. What is Xanadu?
Or, What was the name of the capital of Kubla Khan?
Ans. Xanadu is the capital city of Kubla Khan.
17. What is dulcimer?
Ans. Dulcimer is a kind of ancient musical instrument. It is no longer in use.
18. Who is Don Alfonso?
Ans. Don Alfonso is the husband to Donna Julia.
19. What has Don Juan to learn?
Ans. Don Juan has to learn the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, and how to scale a fortress.
20. How was Juan detected in Julia’s bedroom?
Ans. Juan was detected by his pair of shoes.
21. What does the phrase, ‘blithe spirit’ mean in ‘To a Skylark’?
Ans. The phrase, ‘blithe spirit’ means the spirit of joy.
22. From where does the Skylark sing?
Ans. The skylark sings from heaven or near it, that is, from somewhere near the sky.
23. What is an elegy?
Ans. An elegy is a sad poem to lament for someone who is dead.
24. Who is Urania?
Ans. Urania is the spirit of celestial love and beauty. She is the muse of poetry.
25. What is nightshade?
Ans. Nightshade is a poisonous plant which yields red bright berries.
26. What is an urn?
Ans. An urn is a kind of vase generally made of marble or brass. The ancient Greeks used it to cremate a dead man and preserve the ashes of the dead body.
27. Why does Keats’ heart ache?
Ans. Keat’s heart aches because of the very excess of his joy which he felt hearing the song of the nightingale.
28. What is Provenceal song?
Ans. It is the song of the bards of Provence, a southern district of France, famous for wine and love of song and dance.
29. Who was Cortez?
Ans. Cortez was a Spanish adventurer of the sixteenth century. He was the conqueror of Mexico.
Part-B Short Questions
01. Describe the conditions of the chimney sweepers.100%
02. What does Wordsworth advise his sister Dorothy in ‘Tintern Abbey’? 100%
03. What ‘Loss’ does the poet refer to in ‘Tintern Abbey’? 100%
04. Why does Wordsworth request Milton to return to London? 100%
05. Why did the Old Sailor shoot the Albatross? 100%
06. Find out the elements of romanticism in ‘Kubla Khan’.100%
07. What request does the poet make to the skylark? 100%
Or, What appeal does Shelley make to the Skylark? Why?
08. Describe the procession of mourners in ‘Adonais’. 100%
09. Write a short note…Negative Capability, The Wedding Guest. 100%
10. How was the Old Sailor relieved of his curse? 99%
11. Write a short note on ‘Pantheism’.99%
12. What kind of person is the nurse in the ‘songs of Innocence’? 99%
13. How is the tiger different from the lamb? 99%
14. What do you know about Byronic hero? 99%
15, Briefly state the theme of ‘Don Juan, Canto I’. 99%
16. What is the reaction of Keats after reading Chapman’s Homer? 99%
Or, How did Keats feel on reading Chapman’s Homer?
Part-C▸ Broad Questions
01. Comment on Blake’s attitude to childhood. 100%
Or, Comment on Blake’s treatment of childhood with reference to his poems.
02. What are the stages of growth that Wordsworth refers to in ‘Tintern
Abbey’? 100%
Or, What are the three stages of growth that Wordsworth refers to in ‘Tintern Abbey’?
03. Discuss the treatment of nature in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’. 100%
04. Write a critical appreciation of the poem “London 1802”. 100%
05. Discuss, ‘Adonais’ as a pastoral elegy.
06. Evaluate Keats as a poet of beauty and sensuousness. 100%
07. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an allegory of crime, punishment, and
Discuss. redemption.” – Discuss. 100%
08.The poem’, ‘Kubla Khan’ itself is an explanation of romanticism.” Discuss. 99%
Or. Describe the romantic elements in ‘Kubla Khan’.
Or, Discuss the romantic elements with special reference to ‘Kubla Khan’.
09. Write a note on the use of symbols and images in Blake’s poems. 99%
10. Give the critical appreciation of the poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’. 99%
11. It’s a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free’ by Wordsworth as a Petrarchan sonnet, discuss. 99%
12. Discuss the allegorical significance of the Mariner’s sufferings in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. 99%
13. Write Byron’s ‘Don Juan, Canto I’ as a social satire. 99%
Or, Discuss Byron’s Don Juan as a social satire.
14. Write a critical note the various women characters in ‘Don Juan, Canto I’. 99%
15. “Kubla Khan is a product of sheer fancy”-Discuss. 99%
16. Write a note on the imagery in the poem “Kubla Khan”. 99%
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