IGNOU MEG-01 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2022-23

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

2. Poetry – A Game Of Chess

3. 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)

4. Poetry – What the Thunder Said

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

6. The waste land – I BURIAL OF THE DEAD

7. Poetry – Death by Water 

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

9. Poetry – The Fire Sermon 

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

16. 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.

17. Andrew Marvell’s poetry –

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

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

20. Poet Eliot –

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

22. 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.

23. CHAPTER 1 – The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer