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Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU)

UPRTOU MAEN-106(N) Solved Assignment 2025-26

Session: 2025-26 Max. Marks: 30
Program Name: MA English
Course Code: MAEN-106 (N)
Course Title: British Poetry (From Romantic to the Modern Age)

NOTE: All Questions are Compulsory

SECTION-A
Q.No. NOTE: Short answer type question (approx. 150 to 200 words)
1 What is Romanticism? 2
2 What is the central theme of Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” 2
3 What is Browning’s philosophy of life in “Rabbi ben Ezra”?
4 Write a short note on Pre-Raphaelite.
5 What are the pastoral elements in Arnold’s “Scholar Gypsy”? 2
6 What attitude towards religion is reflected in Larkin’s “Church Going”?

SECTION- B 63=18 marks
Q. No. NOTE: Long answer type question (approx. 350 to 500 words) Marks
7 Write a critical appreciation of the poem Tintern Abbey.
8 Critically appreciate Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” as a poem of spiritual transcendence.
9 Discuss G.M. Hopkins’ idea of “inscape” and “instress” in “Pied Beauty”.