B.A.
Semester-IV (Honours) Examination, 2022 (CBCS)
Subject: English
Paper: CC-IX
(British Romantic Literature)
Time: 3 hrs Full Marks: 60
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to answer in their own words as far as practicable.
1. Answer any ten of the following questions: 10×2= 20
a. Where is Tintern Abbey? What does Wordsworth mean by “sportive wood run wild”?
b. “To them I may have owed another gift…” Briefly describe the gift that Wordsworth
refersto in his “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”.
c. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree:” Who was Kubla Khan and
where is Xanadu situated?
d. “It was an Abyssinian maid..” Why do you think Coleridge mentions an Abyssinian maid
in his poem “Kubla Khan”?
e. “For He calls himself a Lamb”. Who is referred to here? Why does he call himself a
Lamb?
f. “Softest clothing, wooly, bright;” Explain briefly the significance of this line from Blake's
“The Lamb”.
g. “What the hand dare seize the fire?” What does Blake mean by this line in “The Tyger”?
h. What does the question “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” suggest in Blake's
poem, “The Tyger”?
i. How does the child in “The Chimney Sweeper” from the Songs of Innocence differ from
his counterpart in the poem of the same title from the Songs of Experience?
j. Why is Nepoleon called the “conqueror and captive of the Earth” by Lord Byron? Explain
briefly.
k. What does Shelley mean by “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/ Destroyer and
preserver” ?
l. To whom is Canto-III of “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” addressed and why?
m. What does the inscription on the pedestal of the broken statue of Ozymandias in Shelley's
poem of the same name signify?
n. “O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been/ Cooled a long age in the deep- delved earth,”
Why does Keats seek a “draught of vintage”?
o. “Close bosom- friend of the maturing sun;” Why is autumn considered to be a close
friend of the sun?
2. Answer any four of the following questions: 5×4=20
a. State, in brief, the nature of “loss” and “abundant recompense” that Wordsworth refers to
in “Tintern Abbey”.
b. How would you relate the first and second parts of Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”?
c. William Blake's poem “The Tyger” is an unconventional representation of the idea of a
benign power. Do you agree? Answer briefly.
d. “One breast laid open were a school/ Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or
rule." What does this line signify in stanza 43, Canto-III of “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”?
e. Discuss some of the ways in which Shelley seeks identification with the various objects
of nature in “Ode to the West Wind”.
f. Explain the line “Was it a vision, or a waking dream?/ Fled is that music --- Do I wake or
sleep?” in “Ode to a Nightingale”.
3. Answer any two of the following questions: 10x2=20
a. Pride and Prejudice deals with notions of marriage. Elucidate.
b. Do you think that Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” is a fragment? Give reasons for your
answer.
c. “Adieu! The fancy cannot cheat so well,/ As-she is famed to do, deceiving elf” Do you
think this is the main theme of Keats's “Ode to a Nightingale”? Discuss.
d. Critically discuss the role of memory in Wordsworth's “Tintern Abbey”.
