Description

Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU)

Session: 2024-25 Max. Marks: 30
Program Name: BA English
Course Code: UGEN-101 (N)
Course Title: Reading Poetry

NOTE: All questions are compulsory
SECTION-A
Q. No. NOTE: Short answer type question (approx. 200 to 300 words) Marks
1 Describe the scene of churchyard as seen by the poet. 2
2 Write a note on Browning’s optimism in the poem “Prospice”.
3 What is the theme of the poem “The Flute Player of Brindaban”
4 Discuss in brief melancholic elements in “Dover Beach”.
5 What are inscape and in stress?
6 What is Pastoral elegy/ Curtal Sonnet?

SECTION- B
Q. No. NOTE: Long answer type question (approx. 500 to 800 words) Marks
7 Account for Thomas Gray as a transitional poet.
OR
What is the theme of the poem “Elegy written In a Country Churchyard”?

8 What is dramatic monologue? Discuss Robert Browning as the poet of dramatic monologue.
OR
Discuss Matthew Arnold as an elegiac poet.

9 Critically evaluate the poem “The Flute Player of Brindaban”.
OR
Critically evaluate the poem “Pied Beauty”.