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    This document is a 3-page examination for a Master's degree program in English. It contains 7 essay questions about British poetry. Students must answer question 1, which involves analyzing 4 out of 7 poetry excerpts, and any 3 additional questions. The additional questions cover critiquing poets like Donne, Wordsworth, Eliot and Plath; analyzing themes of time in Spenser's works; assessing Pope's satire; discussing Romanticism; and analyzing elements in Yeats's poetry.

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    This document is a 3-page examination for a Master's degree program in English. It contains 7 essay questions about British poetry. Students must answer question 1, which involves analyzing 4 out of 7 poetry excerpts, and any 3 additional questions. The additional questions cover critiquing poets like Donne, Wordsworth, Eliot and Plath; analyzing themes of time in Spenser's works; assessing Pope's satire; discussing Romanticism; and analyzing elements in Yeats's poetry.

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    MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
    ENGLISH
    Term-End Examination
    December, 2016

    MEG 1 : BRITISH POETRY


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    Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

    Note: Answer question no. .1 and any three from the


    remaining questions.

    1. Explain any four of the passages below with


    reference to their contexts supplying brief critical
    comments where necessary : 4x10=40

    (a) His comb was redder than the fyn coral,


    And batailed, as it were a castel wal;
    His byle was blak, and as the jeet it shoon;
    Lyk asur were his legges, and his toon.
    (b) There, in a Meadow, by the Rivers side,
    A Flocke of Nymphes I chaunced to espy,
    All lovely Daughters of the Flood thereby,
    With goodly greenish locks all loose untyde.
    (c) But at my back I alwaies hear
    Times winged Chariot hurrying near
    a
    And yonder all before lye
    Desart,s of vast Eternity.
    MEG-1 1 P.T.O.
    (d) With ravished ears
    The monarch hears,
    Assumes the god,
    Affects to nod,
    And seems to shake the spheres.

    (e) When the stars threw down their spears,


    And water'd heaven with their tears,
    Did he smile his work to see ?
    Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?

    (0 So, let the blue lump poise between my knees,


    Like God the father's globe on both his hands.

    (g) Was that' my friend smiled,


    `where you "have your roots" ?'
    No, only where my childhood was unspent.
    I wanted to retort, just where I started.

    2. Write a critique of one of the following poets : 20

    (a) John Donne

    (b) William Wordsworth

    (c) T.S. Eliot

    (d) Sylvia Plath

    3. Analyse the use of time and temporality in


    Spenser's Epithalamion and Prothalamion. 20

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    4. Assess Alexander Pope's An Epistle to
    Dr. Arbuthnot as a piece of satire. 20

    5. "The peculiar quality of Romanticism lies in this


    that in apparently detaching us from the real
    world, it restores us to reality at a higher point."
    Discuss with reference to the poetry of the
    Romantic Revival in England. 20

    6. Critically comment either on `Porphyria's Lover'


    or `Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. 20

    7. Write a note on the elements of magic, mythology


    and symbolism in Yeats's poetry. 20

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