BDP
Assignment
December-2018 & June-2019
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)
5th Paper
Indian Writing in English : EEG-5
UNIT - I
1. Answer any two of the following questions: 20 × 2 = 40
a) Identify any four of the major trends of thought in the Romantic period, and discuss their application in the works of contemporary poets.
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b) Show how the major streams of Romantic literary criticism bring out the cultural ethos of the age as manifest in literature.
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c) Discuss with close textual analysis how Jane Austen maintains a thin line between irony and humour in Pride and Prejudice.
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d) Consider William Hazlitt as a Romantic essayist with reference to the essays in your syllabus.
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UNIT - II
2. Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) How do ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, poems of Blake glorify innocence against a gloomy social background ?
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b) Analyse the different phases of Wordsworth’s relationship with nature as found in ‘Tintern Abbey’.
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c) Show how John Keats and P. B. Shelley use the Ode as a literary form in Romantic poetry.
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d) Justify the title of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
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e) How does Charles Lamb successfully transform episodes of personal life into literary pieces of universal interest in his essays ?
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f) State and explain William Wordsworth’s definition of poetry in the ‘Preface’ to The Lyrical Ballads.
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UNIT - III
3. Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a) Comment on the notion of ‘Imagination’ in
the Romantic period.
A sight to dream of, not to tell !
O shield her ! Shield sweet Christabel !
world of the Nightingale ? What means does
he use to get there ?
Bring out the significance of this line in
Shelley’s own ideals.
Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice ?
his retirement from service in ‘The
Superannuated Man’ ?
literary or dramatic references you come
across in Keats’ ‘Letters’. What is their
significance ?
Robert Southey’s library ?
the Romantic period.
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b) Explain with reference to the context :A sight to dream of, not to tell !
O shield her ! Shield sweet Christabel !
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c) How does John Keats try to approach theworld of the Nightingale ? What means does
he use to get there ?
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d) “If winter comes, can spring be far behind.”Bring out the significance of this line in
Shelley’s own ideals.
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e) What is the significance of Darcy’s letter toElizabeth in Pride and Prejudice ?
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f) How did the author feel for some days afterhis retirement from service in ‘The
Superannuated Man’ ?
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g) Give a few examples of contemporaryliterary or dramatic references you come
across in Keats’ ‘Letters’. What is their
significance ?
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h) How does Thomas De Quincey describeRobert Southey’s library ?
