My Last Duchess Questions and Answers 1. An Assessment as a Characteristic Poem of Browning. Discuss how far ‘My Last Duchess’ is a representative poem of Browning. Or, Attempt an assessment of My Last Duchess as a characteristic poem of Browning. Browning’s poetry is remarkable, somewhat singular, in more than one way. This is … Read more
Death of A Salesman Questions and Answers Q. 1. Comment on the theme of Reality vs. Illusion in Death of A Salesman. Ans. Illusion versus reality is a major theme in the play of Arthur Miller because Loman family are all unable to separate reality from illusion to some degree. Willy, the main … Read more
Last Ride Together by Robert Browning Questions and Answers 10 Q. 1. Examine The Last Ride Together as a dramatic monologue or a dramatic lyric. Ans. Browning wrote plays. These include Strafford (1837), Pippa Passes (1841), The Return of the Druses (1843), A Soul’s Tragedy (1846), In a Balcony (1853). But in spite of … Read more
The Good Morrow By John Donne Questions and Answers Q.1. Consider Donne’s ‘The Good Morrow’ as a metaphysical poem. ‘The Good-Morrow’ is a well-known metaphysical poem. It is so not because it deals with such abstract issues as speculation about space (e.g. one little room becoming as varied as the entire universe) and philosophical … Read more
The Negro Speaks of the Rivers Questions and Answers 1) A Critical Appraisal of Hughes’s The Negro Speaks of the Rivers . One of the hallmarks of the poem’s extraordinariness is its use of the simple language which is poetic and rhetorical. It is poetic in that it has the main characteristics of poetic … Read more
Ozymandias by P B Shelley Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Ozymandias” by P. B. Shelley. Ans. The central thematic concerns of Shelley’s poetry are largely the same themes that defined Romanticism, especially among the younger English poets of Shelley’s era: beauty, the passions, nature, political liberty, creativity, and the sanctity of the … Read more
