BEGE-143 UNDERSTANDING POETRY in English Solved Question Paper December 2022

BEGE-143 UNDERSTANDING POETRY in English Solved Question Paper December 2022

UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Course Code: BEGE-143

SECTION A
1. Write short notes on any two of the
following : 210=20
(a) Poetic narrative in ‘The Ruined Cottage’
(b) Significance of rain in ‘A Rain of Rites’
(c) Myth in ‘The Ancient Rocks of Cherra’
(d) Modernism in America
No. of Printed Pages : 3
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SECTION B
2. Explain with reference to the context, any two of
the following : 210=20
(a) Mountain – like body
Mountain – like chest
Mountain – like complexion
(b) Let us roll our strength, and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife.
(c) Masses of flowers
load the cherry branches
and colour some bushes
(d) I used to think, ugh.
The only person with whom
I have not exchanged confidences
is my hairdresser.
3. Answer any three of the following
questions : 3 20=60
(a) Write a critical analysis of the poem
‘Crossing the Bar’.
(b) Comment on the use of landscape in the
poems of K.N. Daruwalla and Dilip Chitre.
(c) Critically analyse the poem ‘The Negro
Speaks of Rivers’.
(d) ‘‘Wallace Stevens is an Imagist poet with a
difference.’’ Comment.
(e) Discuss Browning’s ‘The Last Ride Together’
as a dramatic monologue.