BJ0038 – ENGLISH LITERATURE II

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Assignment

DRIVE
WINTER  2015
PROGRAM
BAJM
SEMESTER
2
SUBJECT CODE & NAME
BJ0038 – ENGLISH LITERATURE II
BK ID
B1085
CREDIT & MARKS
4 CREDITS & 60 MARKS

Note: Answer all questions. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

Q1 Write a long note on the Romantic Age of poetry, including some of the most important poets of the period.
Answer: Romantic poetry is the poetry of Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era which reacted against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day in favor more natural, emotional, and personal artistic themes. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual movement.

Poets such as William Wordsworth were actively engaged in trying to create a new kind of poetry that emphasized intuition over reason and the pastoral over




Q2 Write a long note on Milton’s ‘The Paradise Lost’.

Answer: Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one






Q3. Explain the characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry.
Answer: Metaphysical poetry is a little bit different. The poems classified in this group do share common characteristics: they are all highly intellectualized, use rather strange imagery, use frequent paradox and contain extremely complicated thought.

However, metaphysical poetry is not regarded as a genre of poetry. In fact, the main poets of this group didn't read each other's work and didn't know that



Q4 Write a long note on plot and dramatic structure in drama.
Answer: Plot is a narrativeterm defined as the events that make up a story, particularly: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence; as they relate to each other through cause and effect; how the reader views the story; or simply byAuthors are generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads.

A plot is composed of causal events, which are a


Q5 What are the various types of sonnets? Explain in detail. Also write a long note on Shakespearean sonnets.

Answer: Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. It was first published in a 1609 quarto with the full stylised title: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before Imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144


Q6 Write a long note on the major epics The Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid.

Answer: The Aeneid is an epic poem written in 12 books and is modeled in part on the great Greek epic poems, on Homer's Iliadand Odyssey, and on Apollonius' Argonautica. The Iliad describes the exploits of Achilles and other Greek heroes in the Trojan War (the same war which forced Aeneas to leave Troy and is described in Book II of the Aeneid) whilst the Odyssey

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