BEGC-107 British Poetry & Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries Solved Assignment 2023-2024

BEGC-107 British Poetry & Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries Solved Assignment 2023-2024

BEGC-107: British Poetry and Drama – 17
th & 18
th Century
Assignment July, 2023 & January, 2024 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Course Code: BEGC-107/ 2023-2024
Max. Marks: 100

Answer all questions.
Section A
Write short notes on any two (02) of the following in about 200 words each. 2 × 5 = 10

a. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral elegy.
b. Characteristic features of an Epic.
c. Shakespearean tragedy.
Section B
Explain the following with reference to the context in about 300 words each: 3 X 10 = 30
a) Hence, vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly without father bred!
How little you bested
Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Dwell in some idle brain,
And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,
As thick and numberless
b) And, when the sun begins to fling
His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring
To arched walks of twilight groves,
And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves,
Of pine, or monumental oak,
Where the rude axe with heaved stroke
Was never heard the nymphs to daunt,
Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
There, in close covert, by some brook,
Where no profaner eye may look,
Hide me from day’s garish eye,…….
c) Then flash’d the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend th’ affrighted skies.
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav’n are cast,
When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last,
Or when rich China vessels, fall’ n from high,
In glitt’ ring dust and painted fragments lie!
Section C
Attempt any (03) three of the following question. 3 X 20 = 60
1. What are dominant tendencies of Jacobean Drama?
2. Who were the three Johns of the 17th century and what was their contribution to Literature?
3. What are the features of a mock-epic? Why is ‘The Rape of the Lock’ known as a mock heroic poem?
4. How did Dryden define satire? Comment on the central idea of ‘An Essay on Man’?

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