BEGE-106 (2020-21) EM ISC

BEGE-106
Understanding Poetry
Assignment 2020-21
(Based on Blocks 1-8)
Course Code: BEGE-106/2020-21
Max. Marks: 100
Attempt all questions.
1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘Whitsun Weddings’. 20
2. Comment on the theme of the poem ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. 20
3. Discuss the ‘significance of the title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’. 20
4. Discuss the poetic technique in the poem ‘The Thought-Fox’. 20
5. Explain with reference to the context the following lines: 10 x 2=20
a) In the first year of freedom’s second dawn
Died George the Third; although no tyrant, one
Who shielded tyrants, till each sense withdrawn
Left him nor mental nor external sun:
A better farmer ne’er brush’d dew from Lawn,
A worse king never left a realm undone!
b) I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows
despite the well known laws
of optics
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.