DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONS POETRY - B.A. ENGLISH PART ONE NOTES

2. DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONS - POETRY

1. Answer the following questions. 

(i) What is personification? Explain personification in "Leisure". 

(ii) What in your opinion is the most fanciful image in "Tartary"?

2. Answer the following questions. 

(i) What are the new year resolutions of Elizabeth Sewell?

(ii) Write a character sketch of the woman as depicted in "Woman Work". 

3. Answer the following questions. 

(i) Discuss the poem "Patriot into Traitor" as a dramatic monologue. 

(ii) Write a note on the irony in the "Huntsman". 

4. Answer the following questions. 

(i) Do you agree with Elizabeth Bishop that the art of losing is not hard to master?

(ii) Why does Wordsworth call the solitary reaper's song a 'melancholy strain'?

5. Answer the following questions. 

(i) Why does Shakespeare call old age 'a second childishness'?

(ii) How appropriate is the title of the poem "A Poison Tree"?

6. Answer the following questions. 

(i) Why does Emily Dickinson use the image of journey in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?

(ii) "Lights Out" by Edward Thomas dwells on the power of sleep. Elaborate. 

7. Answer the following questions. 

(i) What does the empty barrel signify in "After Apple Picking"?

(ii) What are Keats's fears as you find in "When I Have Fears"?

8. Answer the following questions. 

(i) Why does Yeats wish to be young again in "When I Have Fears"?

(ii) Why does D.H. Lawrence think of his education as 'accursed'?