IGNOU MEG-01 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2021-22

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

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

3. Poetry – What the Thunder Said

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Poetry – The Fire Sermon 

9. Poetry – A Game Of Chess

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

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

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

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

13. CHAPTER 1 – The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

17. 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.

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

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

20. Andrew Marvell’s poetry –

21. The waste land – I BURIAL OF THE DEAD

22. Poetry – Death by Water 

23. Poet Eliot –