IGNOU MEG-01 QUESTION PAPER WITH SOLUTION FOR EXAM PREPARATION

1. What are the main features of metaphysical potery? Give examples from the poets and the poems in the course. 20

2. Poet Eliot –

3. The waste land – I BURIAL OF THE DEAD

4. Write an essay on Dylan Thomas’s use of images in his poetry?

5. CHAPTER 1 – The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

6. Poetry – The Fire Sermon 

7. Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze,
A visitant that while it fans my cheek
Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings
From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

8. Explain poems with reference to their context: 

My loue is now awake out of her dreams (s),
and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were
With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams
More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.

9. Poetry – What the Thunder Said

10. I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?

11. Poetry – A Game Of Chess

12. Would you agree that Milton reflects on blindness in Sonnets 19 & 23? Give a reasoned answer.

13. Andrew Marvell’s poetry –

14. Attempt a comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs.

OR

Compare Epithalamion and Prothalamion as wedding songs. (DECEMBER 2019)

15. We sat grown quiet at the name of love;
We saw the last embers of daylight die,
And in the trembling blue-green of the sky
A moon, worn as if it had been a shell
Washed by time’s waters as they rose and fell
About the stars and broke in days and years.

16. Analysis of The Bishop Orders his Tomb by Robert Browning

17. Would you consider Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically.

18. Does the Dejection: An Ode contain any elements of what comprises Romanticism? Discuss with examples. 

19. Would you consider Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically. 20

20. Poetry – Death by Water 

21. Highlight the salient features of Romanticism with illustrations from the poems prescribed for study.

22. Poetry – Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel

23. Write a short note on “Critically evaluate -The Garden”?