BEGE 106 Understanding Poetry

IGNOU BEGE-106 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions

Attempt all the questions.
1. Write short notes on any four of the following:
a.Shakespearian sonnet
b.Elegy
c.Rhythm
d.Epic
e. Personification
f. Dramatic Monologue

2. Discuss “Ulysses” as a poem of hope and courage.

3. Critically analyse the poem “Tintern Abbey”.

4. Critically comment on the imagery in “Ode to the West Wind”.

5. Discuss “An Introduction” as a confessional poem.

IGNOU BEGE-106 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions

1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘To A SKYLARK’.

2. Comment on the theme of the poem ‘Intimations of Immortality’.

3. ‘Kubla Khan’ illustrates vividly what Coleridge meant when he called imagination a synthetic and magical power, a power which ‘instantly fuses chattered fragments of memory to produce a great poem Elaborate.

4. Attempt a critical appreciation of ‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ by Thomas Gray.

5. Explain with reference to the context the following lines:

1. We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

2. The young light-hearted masters of the waves
And snatch’d his rudder, and shook out more sail;
And day and night held on indignantly
O’er the blue Midland waters with the gale,
Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,
To where the Atlantic raves
Outside the western straits; and unbent sails
There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,
Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;
And on the beach undid his corded bales.