B1
What were the three offers of three goddesses to Paris?
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Part B · Short Questions — Previous Year Questions
2015–2024
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Part B · Short Questions80 questions
Part B · Short Questions80
B2
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'.
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B3
"Now has Andrea embezzled the money of the king of France?
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B4
How is the Duke presented in 'My Last Duchess'?
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B5
Describe the importance of the elm-tree in the lives of Arnold and his friend in the poem 'Thyrsis'.
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B6
How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in the poem 'Felix Randal'?
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B7
Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem 'Spring and Fall'.
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B8
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.
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B9
Why does Andrea consider himself a failure?
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B10
How does Tennyson denounce materialism of his age in "Locksley Hall"?
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B11
What do you mean by "Victorian Compromise"?
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B12
"The poem 'spring and Fall' is more about spirituality than nature"- Discuss.
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B13
What is Arnold's view about 'Truth'?
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B14
Explain the following lines: "This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good."
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B15
"The legend of Tithonus serves moral purposes not only for his own people but also for the whole mankind"-Discuss.
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B16
How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?
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B17
What are the optimistic views found in Tennyson's poem 'Locksley Hall'?
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B18
What does the poet say on 'Modern People' in 'The Scholar Gipsy'?
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B19
How does the poet portray the changing moods of the sailors in 'Lotos Eaters'?
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B20
How does the poem 'Oenone' depict the disintegration of an ideal society?
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B21
Describe the beauty of Lucrezia.
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B22
What Victorian qualities are found in 'My Last Duchess'?
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B23
What is the poem 'Dover Beach' about?
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B24
Describe 'The Windhover' as a sonnet.
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B25
What picture of a futuristic world does Tennyson depict in his poem 'Locksley Hall'?
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B26
Give a pen picture of the Lotos land.
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B27
Discuss the main theme of the poem 'The Windhover'.
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B28
Critically comment on the causes of failure of Andrea as a painter.
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B29
How does Tithonus idealize mortality?
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B30
With what vision did the Scholar Gipsy leave the university?
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B31
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!
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B32
Discuss the note of pessimism as reflected in Arnold's 'Thyrsis'.
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B33
How does Tennyson denounce materialism of his age in "Locksley Hall"?
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B34
How did Andrea embezzle the money of the king of France?
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B35
Give the substance of the poem "Pied Beauty"?
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B36
How does Arnold present a contrast between the life of the Scholar Gypsy and that of the modern man?
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B37
Explain with reference: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.
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B38
How does Browning treat love in "Fra Lippo Lippi"?
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B39
Comment on the ending of the poem 'Thyrsis'?
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B40
How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?
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B41
How does the poem "Oenone" depict the disintegration of an ideal society through sensuality, hypocrisy of Tennyson's time?
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B42
What kind of a man was the Duke of the poem 'My Last Duchess'?
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B43
What is the poem 'Dover Beach' about?
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B44
How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in 'Felix Randal'?
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B45
"The legend of Tithonus serves moral purposes not only for his own people but also for the whole mankind"-Discuss.
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B46
Examine the nature of Browning's optimism in 'The Last Ride Together'.
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B47
How does Arnold present the contrast between the man-made things and the objects of nature in 'Thyrsis'?
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B48
Why was Margaret shocked in 'Spring and Fall'?
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B49
How is the Duke presented in "My Last Duchess"?
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B50
How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in "Locksley Hall"?
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B51
What is Arnold's view about Truth?
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B52
Give the substance of the poem "The Windhover".
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B53
What is the effect of the Lotos on the sailors?
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B54
Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?
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B55
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.
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B56
How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?
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B57
Write a summary of the poem 'Pied Beauty'.
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B58
Define dramatic monologue.
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B59
What philosophy of life do you find in "Andrea del Sarto"?
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B60
Write what you know about Fra Lippo Lippi's early life.
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B61
Describe, in brief, the legend of "The Scholar Gipsy".
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B62
Explain the following lines: "This world's no blot for us, Nor blank-it means intensely, and means good."
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B63
What is the poem "Dover Beach" about?
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B64
Describe the land of the Lotos Eaters.
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B65
Why did the speaker of the poem 'Locksley Hall' fail to marry his beloved?
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B66
Why is Oenone in a sad mood?
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B67
Write a note on the character of the Duke.
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B68
Explain the following lines: "Paint the soul, Never mind the legs and arms."
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B69
'The poem 'Spring and Fall' is more about spirituality than nature"- Discuss.
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B70
What is the cause of Andrea's failure to become a great artist?
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B71
What do you mean by Victorian compromise?
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B72
Summarize the poem 'The Windhover'.
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B73
Write a note on Telemachus.
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B74
Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?
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B75
Why is the speaker of the poem "An Apple-Gathering" mocked by her neighbours?
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B76
What optimistic belief of Tennyson do you find in the poem "Locksley Hall"?
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B77
Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem "Spring and Fall".
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B78
How does Laura feel when she regains consciousness?
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B79
What kind of joy did Hopkins feel when he prayed for the blacksmith?
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B80
Explain with reference to the context:- Leave, Now for dogs and apes, Man has for ever.
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