IGNOU MEG 01 Important Questions with Solutions for December 2023 Exams

IGNOU MEG 01 Important Questions with Solutions for December 2023 Exams

1. Answer any two of the following with reference to the context : 210=20
(a) Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Love’s Day.

(b) Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more,
Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your Berries harsh and crude,
And with forc’d fingers rude,
Shatter your leaves before the
mellowing year.

(c) In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

(d) That is no country for old men.
The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
— Those dying generations — at
their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded
seas.

Answer any four from the following questions :
2. What do you understand by the term Metaphysical Poetry ? Give the characteristics o metaphysical poetry. 20
3. Which of these two poems — ‘‘L’Allegro’’ and ‘‘Il Penseroso’’, in your opinion represents Milton’s own views more accurately ? 20
4. Who were the pre-Raphaelites ? Examine the works of any one pre-Raphaelite poet. 20
5. How are magic and symbolism related/connected in W.B. Yeats’ poetry ?

6. Examine the use of myth and symbolism in T.S. Eliot’s ‘‘The Waste Land’’. 20
7. Attempt a critical appreciation of any one poem : 20
(a) ‘‘At Grass’’
(b) ‘‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’’
(c) ‘‘Lapis Lazuli’’
(d) ‘‘Goblin Market’’
8. Comment on Yeats’ use of the theatrical metaphor in his poetry