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Section B

Answer at least five questions.

Each question carries 6 marks.

All questions can be attended.
Overall Ceiling 30.

Comment on the imagery in the poem “Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day”.
Describe the attitude of Dylan Thomas towards life and death.
What does the contrast between the ‘steed’ and the ‘ox’ signify ?

Explain the significance of the title “Be Drunk”.

20. What is the impression of the society you get from the poem “Landscape of the Capibaribe River” ?

21. Bring out the images of decay and desolation in the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”.

22. How does the poet contrast the blissful existence of the skylark with the painful human

condition ?

23. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem “When you are Old” by William Butler Yeats.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep ;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face ;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

(5 x 6 = 30 marks)

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