Semester : SEMESTER 2
Subject : APPRECIATING POETRY
Year : 2022
Term : APRIL
Branch : ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Scheme : 2020 Full Time
Course Code : ENG 2B 02
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SECOND SEMESTER (CBCSS—UG) DEGREE EXAMINATION
APRIL 2022
English
ENG 2B 02—APPRECIATING POETRY
(2021 Admissions)
: Two Hours and a Half Maximum : 80 Marks
Section A
Answer at least ten questions.
Each question carries 3 marks.
All questions can be attended.
Overall Ceiling 30.
What happens to the knight at the end of the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” ?
What plea does the poet make to the skylark ?
“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together.” Explain.
Why does the lover in Donne’s poem forbid mourning ?
What bewilders Rainer Maria Rilke at the end of the poem ?
Describe the night in the poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines”.
What is the central image in ‘Mother to Son’ ?
What is the irony in stonemason building a house ?
How does Yehuda Amichai indicate the passage of time ?
What is the central image used by the poet to describe the river ?
How does Bassy Ikpi reveal her future anxieties ?
What does Alexander Pope mean by the expression ‘Wisdom infinite’ ?
What does Stanley Kunitz convey through the paradoxical expression feast of losses ?
What is an ode ?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor ? Explain using examples.
(10 x 3 = 30 marks)
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