Previous Year Questions

Who is the speaker of the poem 'Locksley Hall'?

Who was Oenone's playmate?

What happened when a person eats lotos-fruits?

What does the phrase 'grassy barrows' suggest?

How does the lover feel when his lady love rests her head upon his breast in 'The Last Ride Together'?

Who is Lucrezia?

Who was Cosimo of the Medici?

What does the statue of Neptune taming a sea horse symbolize?

Whom does Thyrsis stand for in Arnold's poem 'Thyrsis'?

Who was Sophocles?

What message does G.M. Hopkins give in his poem 'Pied Beauty'?

What is sonnet?

What were the three offers of three goddesses to Paris?

Explain the following lines: "Mon comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. We only cruel immortality consumes'.

"Now has Andrea embezzled the money of the king of France?

How is the Duke presented in 'My Last Duchess'?

Describe the importance of the elm-tree in the lives of Arnold and his friend in the poem 'Thyrsis'.

How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in the poem 'Felix Randal'?

Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem 'Spring and Fall'.

Explain the following lines: The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright gurdle furled.

Write a note on Tennyson's use of Greek myth and legend in his poems.

Critically appreciate the poem 'My Last Duchess'.

'It is said that Arnold describes the spiritual pangs of his age'. Illustrate from some of his poems.

What idea of Victorian age do you get from the poem 'Locksley Hall'?

Browning's poetry reveals a deep knowledge of the psychology of men and women.-Discuss.

Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age.

Comment on the symbols and imagery used in Hopkin's poems.

Give an account of the pastoral elements in Arnold's poetry that you have read. \`\`\`

What is 'gipsy lore'?

Who was called "the faultless painter"?

What is a dramatic monologue?

Who is the speaker in the poem "The Last Ride Together"?

What gift does Tithonus urge to take back?

What is the meaning of 'Felix'?

What is meant by 'Shepherd's holiday'?

What does "Spring" suggest in the title "Spring and Fall"?

Who sang the choric song in "The Lotos Eaters"?

Why is Clough compared to the cuckoo?

Why is the poet's heart scared in the poem "The Windhover"?

What does the poem "Locksley Hall" represent?

Why does Andrea consider himself a failure?

How does Tennyson denounce materialism of his age in "Locksley Hall"?

What do you mean by "Victorian Compromise"?

"The poem 'spring and Fall' is more about spirituality than nature"- Discuss.

What is Arnold's view about 'Truth'?

Explain the following lines: "This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good."

"The legend of Tithonus serves moral purposes not only for his own people but also for the whole mankind"-Discuss.

How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?

What picture of Victorian compromise do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have read? Discuss critically.

Discuss Arnold's treatment of nature in his poems.

Do you think that Browning is an optimist? Elucidate with reference to the poems you have read.

"Tennyson is at his best in his lyrical and descriptive poems" Explain with illustration.

What is an elegy? Comment on the elegiac elements found in Arnold's poems.

Illustrate Browning's view of art and life.

Evaluate Hopkin's appreciation of nature.

Critically analyze "Felix Randal" as a sonnet.

What source did Browning find to write the poem 'Andrea del Sarto'?

Who is called a Poet Laureate?

Define a lyric poem.

Who greet the sailors when they reach Lotos Land?

Who is Oenone?

Why does the Duke dislike the Duchess?

Why is Arnold so sad in 'Dover Beach'?

What is meant by 'Brute beauty'?

Who is Margaret?

What is the Duke like in 'My Last Duchess'?

How does Arnold's Scholar live?

Who is Fra Lippo Lippi?

What are the optimistic views found in Tennyson's poem 'Locksley Hall'?

What does the poet say on 'Modern People' in 'The Scholar Gipsy'?

How does the poet portray the changing moods of the sailors in 'Lotos Eaters'?

How does the poem 'Oenone' depict the disintegration of an ideal society?

Describe the beauty of Lucrezia.

What Victorian qualities are found in 'My Last Duchess'?

What is the poem 'Dover Beach' about?

Describe 'The Windhover' as a sonnet.

Write a note on visual imagery used in Tennyson's poetry.

Describe Tennyson as a representative poet of his age.

Evaluate Robert Browning as a poet of dramatic monologue.

Comment on how Browning reveals a deep knowledge of the psychology of men and women.

Give an account of the pastoral elements in Arnold's poetry that you have read.

Discuss the symbols used in Hopkins's poems.

Trace the religious elements in Hopkins's poetry.

Discuss Arnold's poetry as a criticism of life with reference to the poems you have read.

What is a dramatic monologue?

Who is the speaker's cousin in 'Locksley Hall'?

Whom did the poet go to Dover Beach with?

Who is Lucrezia?

Where did Lippo live?

Who is Oenone's mother?

Where is the Scholar Gipsy found?

What is sonnet?

What message does G.M. Hopkins give in his poem 'Pied Beauty'?

What is imagery?

What kind of poem is 'Thyrsis'?

With what particular word does Ulysses address his fellow sailors in the poem 'Lotos Easters'?

What picture of a futuristic world does Tennyson depict in his poem 'Locksley Hall'?

Give a pen picture of the Lotos land.

Discuss the main theme of the poem 'The Windhover'.

Critically comment on the causes of failure of Andrea as a painter.

How does Tithonus idealize mortality?

With what vision did the Scholar Gipsy leave the university?

Explain with reference to the context: Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Clous of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Discuss the note of pessimism as reflected in Arnold's 'Thyrsis'.

Comment on the contrast between the utopia and the real world as reflected in 'Lotos Eaters'.

Do you think that Browning is an optimist? Elucidate with reference to the poems you have read.

Critically comment on the imagery used in Hopkins' poems you have read.

Evaluate Arnold's 'Scholar Gipsy' as a pastoral elegy.

How does Browning juxtapose art with life in his poems? Discuss.

What picture of Victorian compromise do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have read? Discuss critically.

Comment on romantic elements in Hopkins' poems you have read.

Critically appreciate the poem 'My Last Duchess'.

What is Locksley Hall?

Who is the speaker in the poem "The Last Ride Together"?

What is "gipsy lore"?

Why is Margaret crying?

What type of poem is 'Oenone'?

How does the Duke treat his wife?

What is Dover?

What did Felix Randal use to make?

Who, according to Tithonus, is a happy man?

What does the phrase "Andrea del Sarto" mean?

"I know the Fyfield tree"-What is the Fyfield tree?

Why was Lippo arrested by a group of watchmen?

How does Tennyson denounce materialism of his age in "Locksley Hall"?

How did Andrea embezzle the money of the king of France?

Give the substance of the poem "Pied Beauty"?

How does Arnold present a contrast between the life of the Scholar Gypsy and that of the modern man?

Explain with reference: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.

How does Browning treat love in "Fra Lippo Lippi"?

Comment on the ending of the poem 'Thyrsis'?

How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?

Write a critical appreciation of Tennyson's poem "The Lotos Eaters".

Comment on Browning's attitude to art and life as revealed in his poems.

Discuss Arnold's treatment of nature in his poems.

Write a note on the symbols used in Hopkins's poems.

What romantic elements do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have studied?

How does Browning reflect the Renaissance temper in his poems? Discuss.

What is elegy? Discuss "Thyrsis" as an elegy.

Evaluate Hopkins's appreciation of nature.

"Comrades, leave me here a little"-Why does the speaker asks his friends to leave him there a little?

Who was called the faultless painter?

Why is Clough compared to the cuckoo?

What is expressed through the words 'Brute beauty'?

Who was Oenone?

Who are compared to rats in 'Fra Lippo Lippi'?

"And we arc here as on a darkling plain"-What is referred to here?

Why is the poet's heart scared in the poem 'The Windhover'?

How was the river flowing in the land of Loto's Eaters?

What is Westminster Abbey?

What was the cause of the spiritual crisis in the poem 'The Scholar Gipsy'?

Who wrote the poem 'Pied Beauty'?

How does the poem "Oenone" depict the disintegration of an ideal society through sensuality, hypocrisy of Tennyson's time?

What kind of a man was the Duke of the poem 'My Last Duchess'?

What is the poem 'Dover Beach' about?

How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in 'Felix Randal'?

"The legend of Tithonus serves moral purposes not only for his own people but also for the whole mankind"-Discuss.

Examine the nature of Browning's optimism in 'The Last Ride Together'.

How does Arnold present the contrast between the man-made things and the objects of nature in 'Thyrsis'?

Why was Margaret shocked in 'Spring and Fall'?

Consider "Pied Beauty" as a religious poem.

Write how Tennyson highlights the Victorian spirit in his poems.

Evaluate Robert Browning as a writer of dramatic monologues.

Discuss "The Scholar Gipsy" as a pastoral elegy.

Write about the imagery that you find in the poem 'Felix Randal'.

Discuss Arnold's poetry as criticism of life with reference to the poems you have read.

"The poetry of Robert Browning reveals a deep knowledge of the psychology of men and women".-Discuss.

'Tennyson is at his best in his lyrical and descriptive poems'. - Explain with illustrations.

How did Aurora grant immortality to Tithonus?

Who is the listener in "My Last Duchess"?

With what the fallen leaves are compared?

What is Victorian compromise?

What is Tennyson's opinions about knowledge and wisdom?

How is Andrea inferior to other painters?

What is meant by 'shepherd's holiday'?

What does 'Spring' suggest in the title?

Who sang the choric song in "The Lotos Eaters"?

What is a dramatic monologue?

What is "the eternal note of sadness"?

Who was Felix Randal?

How is the Duke presented in "My Last Duchess"?

How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in "Locksley Hall"?

What is Arnold's view about Truth?

Give the substance of the poem "The Windhover".

What is the effect of the Lotos on the sailors?

Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?

Explain with reference:- And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?

How does Tennyson handle myth and legend in the poems you have read?

Justify Robert Browning as an optimistic poet.

Comment on the elegiac elements as found in Arnold's poems.

Write a note on the symbols used in Hopkin's poems.

What romantic elements do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have read?

Discuss Browning's attitude to art and life as revealed in his poems.

Comment on the treatment of nature in the poems of Matthew Arnold.

Consider "Pied Beauty" as a religious poem.

Who is Amy?

What gift does Tithonus urge to take back?

Where do Andrea and Lucrezia live?

Who is Neptune?

What is the source of the poem "The Scholar Gypsy"?

What is a monody?

What do you understand by "Brute beauty"?

What is the meaning of 'Felix'?

What type of poem is "Andrea del Sarto"?

How old was Fra Lippo Lippi when he renounced the worldly pleasures?

Who is the speaker of the poem "My Last Duchess"?

Who was Sophocles?

Write a summary of the poem 'Pied Beauty'.

Define dramatic monologue.

What philosophy of life do you find in "Andrea del Sarto"?

Write what you know about Fra Lippo Lippi's early life.

Describe, in brief, the legend of "The Scholar Gipsy".

Explain the following lines: "This world's no blot for us, Nor blank-it means intensely, and means good."

What is the poem "Dover Beach" about?

Describe the land of the Lotos Eaters.

Discuss the remark that Tennyson spoke for the English conscience of the Victorian Age in "Locksly Hall".

Discuss "The Scholar Gipsy" as a pastoral elegy.

Critically analyse "Felix Randal" as a sonnet.

Evaluate Hopkins appreciation of nature.

Write a critical appreciation of Tennyson's poem "The Lotus Eaters".

"Browning's poems are a psychological study of characters." - Discuss.

Discuss Arnold's poetry as criticism of life with reference to "Thyrsis" and "Dover Beach".

Write a note on Browning's philosophy of life with reference to "Andrea del Sarto" and "Fra Lippo Lippi".

Who was Oenone?

Who was Andrea's wife?

What type of poem is 'Thyrsis'?

Which bird is called the windhover?

Who are the lotos-eaters?

Who was called "the faultless painter"?

What is Dover famous for?

What is a dramatic monologue?

What kind of poem is 'The Scholar Gipsy'?

Who is the speaker in the poem 'The Last Rider Together'?

How did Tithonus become immortal?

Who write the poem 'Pied Beauty'?

Why did the speaker of the poem 'Locksley Hall' fail to marry his beloved?

Why is Oenone in a sad mood?

Write a note on the character of the Duke.

Explain the following lines: "Paint the soul, Never mind the legs and arms."

'The poem 'Spring and Fall' is more about spirituality than nature"- Discuss.

What is the cause of Andrea's failure to become a great artist?

What do you mean by Victorian compromise?

Summarize the poem 'The Windhover'.

Comment on Tennyson's use of myths and legends in the poem you have read.

Critically appreciate the poem 'Dover Beach'.

Comment on the symbols used in Hopkin's poems.

Evaluate Robert Browning as a writer of dramatic monologues.

Tennyson is a pictorial artist.-Discuss.

Give a short description of the elegiac note in Arnold's poetry.

Write what you know about Browning's view of art and life.

Consider 'Pied Beauty' as a religious poem.

What does the poem "Locksley Hall" represent?

What does Ulysses symbolize?

How was the religious faith of the Victorians?

"My pipe is lost"-What is meant by "pipe"?

Who does Corydon stand for in Arold's "Thyrisis"?

What happened to the men who ate the lotos at the land of the 'Lotos Eaters'?

What is "gipsy lore"?

Who was Margaret?

Who carry the dead body of the Grammarian?

How was the hair of Laura?

"I am become a name,"- Who said this?

What is the source of the poem "The Lotos Eaters"?

Write a note on Telemachus.

Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?

Why is the speaker of the poem "An Apple-Gathering" mocked by her neighbours?

What optimistic belief of Tennyson do you find in the poem "Locksley Hall"?

Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem "Spring and Fall".

How does Laura feel when she regains consciousness?

What kind of joy did Hopkins feel when he prayed for the blacksmith?

Explain with reference to the context:- Leave, Now for dogs and apes, Man has for ever.

Discuss Arnold's treatment of nature in his poems.

Justify Robert Browning as an optimistic poet.

Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age.

Discuss "Goblin Market" as a religious allegory.

Comment on the symbols used in Hopkin's poems.

"Arnold's poetry is the criticism of life."-Discuss with reference to his poems you have read.

What romantic elements do you find in Tennyson's poems that you have read?

"Browning's poetry reveals a deep knowledge of the psychology of men and women."-Discuss.