Sonnet No 73 Questions and Answers Q. 1. In the sonnet beginning ‘That time of year’ (i) What are the three metaphors Shakespeare provides for old age? (ii) What does he mean by ‘Death’s second self’? (iii) How is the fire consumed with that which it was nourished by? (iv) How and why is … Read more
Christabel Questions and Answers Q. 1. Write a short critical estimate of Christabel. Ans. Christabel is a magnificent poem by Coleridge. It is subtly supernatural in effect, psychological in its portrayal of the inner mind of man, dramatic in tone and in keeping up the suspense, lyrical in its melliflous music, medieval in … Read more
Dover Beach Questions and Answers 1. Attempt a critical estimate of trem Dover Beach. . Ans. Dover Beach has its king similarities with Arnold’s other poems-Stanzas oant the Grande Chartreuse and The Buried Life. The gisboat decline of faith and Arnold’s own resultant bewilderntent and melancholy constitute the theme of the former. In The … Read more
Lady of Shalott Questions and Answers Marks 10/15,5,2 1 .Comment on the sexual politics in the Lady of Shalott. Ans. Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott (1842) is often read by critics as a poem centrally concerned with the question of the relation between “art” and “life” conditions respectively symbolized in the worlds of … Read more
O captain My Captain Questions and Answer O captain My Captain Questions and Answer Q.1. Discuss “O Captain! My Captain!” as an elegy ? Ans. An elegy is a poem of mourning. Most elegies are about someone who has died. Some elegies mourn a way of life that is gone forever. “O Captain! My … Read more
I Sit and Look Out Questions and Answers 2 & 5 1. What is the purpose behind writing the poem I Sit and Look Out? The poem I Sit and Look Out is a ten-line lyric which was published in the 1860 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Through the onlooking speaker, the … Read more
