Subjective / Written Questions (25)
1. Analyze the speaker's emotional condition in Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.
2. Discuss love, truth and deception in Sonnet 138.
3. Analyze metaphysical wit and conceit in “The Canonization”.
4. Explain rhetorical features of Satan's Speech in Paradise Lost.
5. Discuss human nature and cosmic order in Pope's “Essay on Man”.
6. Explain innocence and experience in “The Nurse's Song”.
7. Analyze memory and nature in “Tintern Abbey”.
8. Explain the symbolism of the West Wind in Shelley's ode.
9. Discuss beauty, mortality and escape in “Ode to a Nightingale”.
10. Analyze anti-war satire in “Arms and the Man”.
11. Explain how “Arms and the Man” challenges conventional heroism.
12. Discuss the central ideas of “On Doing Nothing”.
13. Analyze the sources of happiness discussed in Russell's “The Road to Happiness”.
14. Discuss African American social experience in “Twelve Million Black Voices”.
15. Explain the qualities of a good essayist in “The Art of the Essayist”.
16. Define metaphysical conceit with reference to Donne.
17. Differentiate epic and lyric.
18. Explain the major features of an ode.
19. Discuss nature and imagination in Romantic poetry.
20. Compare the themes of Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 138.
21. Explain how memory affects present experience in “Tintern Abbey”.
22. Analyze change and renewal in “Ode to the West Wind”.
23. Discuss irony and satire in “Arms and the Man”.
24. Differentiate prose essay and dramatic text.
25. Give an overall analysis of the major literary concerns of Semester II Poetry, Drama and Prose texts.