Model Paper Of Classical Poetry M.A English Part 2 GCUF

Government College University, Faisalabad
Department of English
Model Paper: MA ENGLISH Part II
Subject: English Time Allowed: 3 Hrs
Paper 1 : Poetry-II
Max Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any 4 questions. All questions carry equal marks. Question No.1 is
compulsory.
1. Explain with reference to the context any 3 of the following.
a) I love hushed air. I trust contrariness
Years and years go past and I do not move
For I see that when one man casts, the other gather
And then vice versa, without changing sides.
b) Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Through deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
c) I’ll take it. So it happens that I lie
Where Mr. Bleaney lay, and stub my fangs
On the same saucer-souvenir,…..
d) Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green alter, O mysterious priest,
Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
e) …… England could add
Only the sooty twilight of South Yorkshire
Hung with the drumming drift of Lancasters
Till the world had seemed capsizing slowly.
f) Sowers of seed, erectors of headstones…….
O charioteers, above your dormant guns,
It sands here still, stands vibrant as you pass,
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The invisible, untoppled omphalos.
2. Compare and contrast any two ‘Odes of Keats’ that you have read.
3. What does the speaker in ‘Mr. Bleaney’ share with the former tenant of the
room? [Larkin]
4. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,
Reality’ s dark dream!’
How far do these lines illustrate
Dejection: An Ode’ by Coleridge?
5. ‘That Morning’ and ‘Thought Fox’ exemplify the importance of energy and
single minded concentration in Hughes. Explain.
6. Heaney’s metaphors are sensuously alive.Discuss with reference to ‘Personal
Helicon’ and ‘Tollund Man.’.
7. London is a ‘Sick Rose’. How far does Blake’s poetry bear out truth of this
statement?