BEGE-143 UNDERSTANDING POETRY in English Solved Question Paper June 2023

BEGE-143 UNDERSTANDING POETRY in English Solved Question Paper June 2023

UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Course Code: BEGE-143

Section—A
1. Write short notes on any two of the following :
2×10=20
(a) Tropes employed by Nirmala Putul in her
poetry.
(b) Irony in „Ajamil and the Tigers‟.
(c) Browning as the poet of Dramatic
Monologue.
(d) Significance of nature in Robert Frost‟s
poetry.
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Section—B
2. Explain with reference to the context any two of
the following : 2×10=20
(a) The tables have turned now
Protests spark
Now here
Now there
(b) Once I promised you an epic
And now you have robbed me
You reduced me to rubble
This concerto ends.
(c) Hurry up ! any minute
they will be bringing it
from the hospital—
a white model of our lives
(d) My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than Empires, and more slow
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy forehead gaze.
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Section—C
3. Answer any three of the following questions :
3×20=60
(a) “Donne represents love in both worldly and
mystical terms.” Comment with reference
to the poem „The Canonisation‟.
(b) Discuss Wordsworth as a poet of nature.
(c) Critically analyse the poem „The Negro
Speaks of Rivers‟.
(d) Discuss the urban surrounding and
broader social concerns in the poem „Ode to
Bombay‟.