Description

Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU)
Assignment for the MA English Programme (Session 2024-25)

Session: 2024-25
Max. Marks: 30
Course Code: MAEN 106 (N)
Course Title: British Poetry (From Romantic to the Modern Age)

NOTE: All questions are compulsory
SECTION-A
NOTE: Short answer type question (approx. 200 to 300 words)
1 What is Romanticism?
2 What is the theme of “To A Skylark”?
3 Write any two characteristics of Victorian poetry?
4 Write a short not on Dramatic Monologue.
5 What are the pastoral elements in Arnold’s “Scholar Gypsy”?
6 Why is the Grecian urn called cold pastoral?

SECTION- B
Q. No. NOTE: Long answer type question (approx. 500 to 800 words)
7 What is Romanticism? Discuss its salient features.
Or
Write a critical appreciation of the poem Tintern Abbey.
6
8 Discuss P.B. Shelley as a lyrical poet.
Or
Comment on Tennyson as a representative poet of Victorian era.
6
9 Is “The Scholar Gipsy” as a Pastoral elegy ? Do you agree? Give you answer.
Or
Write a note on Robert Browning as a writer of Dramatic Monologue.