Netaji Subhas Open University B.D.P. English EEG-5 Assignment December 2016 & June 2017 Solved

Netaji Subhas Open University B.D.P. English EEG-5 Assignment December 2016 & June 2017 Solved

B.D.P 2nd Year

EEG-5

 1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40 

a)Who were the Precursors of the Romantic Movement? Discuss why they were called so?

 

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 b)How do the poems ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tyger’ express two opposite sides of the human soul? Answer with textual references. 

 

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c)Discuss the themes of love, money and marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

 

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d)Comment on the contrast between transience and permanence as you find it in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.

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 2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36

 

a)What is your impression of Geraldine in ‘Christabel’? Answer with textual references.

 

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b)Discuss the functions of the West Wind both as Destroyer and Preserver.

 

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c)Narrate Lamb’s feelings after his sudden retirement in ‘The Superannuated Man’.

 

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d)Comment on Wordsworth’s distinction between Imagination and Fancy in Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

 

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e)Bring out some of the autobiographical elements in ‘Tintern Abbey’.

 

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f)Comment on the character of Elizabeth Bennet.

 

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 3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24
a) Briefly analyse Keats’s idea of Negative
Capability as found in his letters.

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b) Comment in brief on the ending of ‘Dream
Children : A Reverie’.

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c) Explain with reference to the context :
“When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears :
Did he smile his work to see ?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”

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d) Write a short note on Robert Southey’s
Library after De Quincey.

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e) Briefly comment on the miseries of human
life depicted in Stanza III of ‘Ode to a
Nightingale’ by Keats.

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f) Describe the night Christabel comes out to
pray in the woods.

 

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g) What does the little chimney sweeper say
about his own life in the first stanza of ‘The
Chimney Sweeper’ poem from ‘Songs of
Innocence’ ?

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h) Explain with reference to the context :
“If winter comes can spring be far behind ?”

 

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