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romantic poetry honours 2nd year suggestion
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Brief Questions with Answer
1. What conventional figures of innocence are introduced in Introduction to Songs of Innocence?
Ans: The poem introduces us to conventional figures of innocence: a shepherd with his pipe, and a child in a rural setting.
2. Who is the piper referred to in Introduction to Songs of Innocence?
Ans: The piper referred to in this poem is the poet Blake himself.
3. What did the poet do while wandering through the valleys?
Ans: He was piping songs of joy on his pipe while wandering through the valleys.
4. What did the poet see in his vision while piping songs of joy on his pipe?
Ans: In his vision he saw a child on a cloud while piping songs of joy on his pipe.
5. What kind of child did the poet see on a cloud?
Ans: The poet saw a mystic child on a cloud.
6. What does the child on a cloud represent?
Ans: The child may refer to Jesus Christ who speaks from a cloud i.e. heaven or it may be an angel representing innocence.
7. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
Ans: The “Lamp” symbolizes innocence and Christ.
8. Why does the child vanish from the sight of the poet?
Ans: The child vanishes from the sight of the poet for he is a vision symbolizing the poet’s imagination.
9. How many times did the child weep?
Ans: The child wept two times—first hearing the piping and next listening to the songs of joy.
10. How does the poet represent himself in the poem?
Ans: He represents himself as a shepherd-boy carrying a shepherd’s pipe.
The Lamb
11. Why is The Lamb the most significant poem in the section of Innocence?
Ans: Because it extends the world of innocence to the animals.
12. What does the child ask the lamb?
Ans: The child asks the lamb who its Creator is.
13. How is the wool of the lamb?
Ans: The lamb has bright, soft and warm wool.
14. Who is called by the name of the lamb?
Ans: The Creator of the lamb is called by the name of the lamb.
15. Why is Christ regarded as God?
Ans: Since Christ is known by God’s name, he is regarded as God.
16. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
Ans: The lamb is a symbol of Christ.
The Chimney Sweeper
17. What is a chimney sweeper?
Ans: A chimney sweeper is a young boy who was sent up a chimney with a brush to sweep away the soot that had accumulated on the inner walls of the chimney.
18. Who is Tom Dacre?
Ans: He is a fellow chimney sweeper of the speaker of the poem.
19. Why were the heads of the chimney sweepers shaved?
Ans: Their heads were shaved in order to avoid risk of their hair catching fire.
20. When did Tom Dacre cry/ shout?
Ans: Tom Dacre cried/ shouted when the curly hair of his head was shaved.
21. Why is Tom’s hair compared to the wool of a lamb?
Ans: Tom’s hair is compared to the wool of a lamb in order to signify the innocence of the little chimney sweepers.
22. What is the moral of the poem The Chimney Sweeper?
Ans: The moral of the poem is that no harm comes to him who does not neglect his duty.
Nurse’s Song
23. What is the Nurse doing?
Ans: The Nurse is looking after the children who are playing.
24. How is the Nurse?
Ans: The Nurse is kind hearted.
25. What does the Nurse ask the children?
Ans: The Nurse asks the children to stop playing.
26. Why does the Nurse ask the children to stop playing?
Ans: The Nurse asks the children to stop playing because at that time the sun is set and the dews of the night are beginning to fall.
27. On what grounds do the children want to play some time more?
Ans: They want to play some time more on the grounds that the little birds are still seen flying about in the air, and the sheep are still grazing on the hillside.
28. Why does the Nurse allow the children to play a little longer?
Ans: The Nurse kind-hearted. She allows the children to play a little longer to win love and confidence of the children.
29. How does Nurse’s Song foreshadow the impending change into experience?
Ans: The poem foreshadows the impending change into experience through the Nurse’s authority over the children.
William Wordsworth: Selected Poems
1. What is the extension of Romantic age?
Ans: Romantic age extends from 1798 to 1832.
2. What is Romanticism?
Ans: Romanticism is a literary movement in art, music and literature against the set rules of the classical literature.
3. Why is the Romantic age termed as Romantic Revival?
Ans: Romantic age is termed as the period of Romantic Revival because the glorious production of the age had a close kinship with the Elizabethan age.
4. Who is considered as the father of Romanticism?
Ans: Rousseau, the French philosopher, is considered as the father of Romanticism.
5. Who are the Lake poets?
Ans: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are called Lake Poets because at one time or another, they lived in the Lake country of north western England.
6. What is Poet Laureate?
Ans: It is a title given to a poet who is appointed by the British sovereign to compose poems for state functions.
Tintern Abbey
7. What is the full title of the poem Tintern Abbey?
Ans: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.
8. What is an Abbey?
Ans: An Abbey is a large church together with a group of buildings in which monks and nuns live as a community in the service of God and religion.
9. What is the name of Wordsworth’s sister?
Ans: The name of his sister is Dorothy.
10. What is sycamore?
Ans: Sycamore is a kind of fig tree. It is a tree of the maple family with leaves that have five points and seeds shaped like a pair of wings.
11. What do you mean by ‘hedge-row’?
Ans: ‘Hedge-row’ is a lines of bushes or plants planted along the edge of a field or road for protecting the field or the road.
12. What is a hermit?
Ans: A hermit is a person who, usually for religious reasons, lives a very simple life alone and does not meet and talk to other people.
13. What is ‘sensations sweet’?
Ans: It means the sweet memories of the lovely scenes of Nature.
14. What is the ‘blessed mood’?
Ans: It means the happy and spiritual state of mind that seems to be a blessing.
15. What is the ‘mystery’ of the world?
Ans: It is the origin and significance of our life in this world which weighs on our mind.
16. Who is the queen-mother of solace?
Ans: Nature is the queen-mother of solace.
17. What are the three stages?
Ans: The stages are: (1) the poet’s boyish animal pleasure in Nature; (2) his love of sensuous beauty of Nature; and (3) his spiritual and intellectual love of Nature.
18. What do you mean by the ‘aching joys’?
Ans: It means joy mixed with pain. The joy felt by the poet on seeing the beauty of Nature is so intense that it causes pain for him.
19. What do you mean by ‘dizzy raptures’?
Ans: ‘Dizzy raptures’ are ecstatic joys that caused giddiness. Seeing the beauty of Nature, the poet is so delighted that he sometimes lost mental balance.
20. What do you mean by the phrase ‘sad music of humanity’?
Ans: It means the sorrows and sufferings of mankind.
21. What does the poet advice his sister Dorothy?
Ans: The poet advices his sister to cultivate friendship with Nature because “Nature never did betray”, that is, Nature never deceives anyone.
23. What do you know about Dorothy?
Ans: Dorothy is the sister of Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1. Who is called the poet of supernatural?
Ans: Coleridge is called the poet of supernatural.
2. Why is Coleridge called the most representative of all English romantic poets?
Ans: He is called the most representative of all English romantic poets because he presents in his work almost all the triumphs and perils of the romantic spirit.
3. Who planned to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Ans: Both Wordsworth and Coleridge planned to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ion Nov. 20, 1797, when they were walking in the Quantocks.
4. What is an argument?
Ans: An argument is a brief summary of the plot prefixed to a literary work. It is a prose statement summarizing the plot or stating the meaning of a long poem.
5. On what was The Rime of the Ancient Mariner founded?
Ans: The poem was founded on a dream of Coleridge’s friend, Cruikshank.
6. How did the Ancient Mariner stop one of the three wedding guests?
Ans: The Ancient Mariner stopped one of the three wedding guests by his long grey beard and glittering eye.
7. What does the Glittering eye suggest?
Ans: Glittering eye is a mark of intelligence or of great will power which the Ancient Mariner exercises over the wedding guest whom he stopped.
8. How many sailors were there on the board of the ship?
Ans: There were two hundred and one sailors including the old mariner on the board of the ship.
9. What is a bassoon?
Ans: A bassoon is a wind instrument producing a deep sound.
10. What is an Albatross?
Ans: An Albatross is a large sea-bird found mostly in the tropics particularly in the south of the Cape of Good Hope.
11. What kind of bird is the Albatross?
Ans: The Albatross is a bird of good-omen.
12. Why is the Albatross regarded as the bird of good-omen?
Ans: The mariners regards the Albatross as a bird of good omen because after the appearance of the Albatross the ice began to split and the ship sailed on easily by the south wind.
13. Who killed the Albatross and why?
Ans: The Ancient Mariner killed the Albatross without any apparent reason.
14. Who were the crew of the spectre-ship?
Ans: The crew of the spectre-ship were a woman and her companion, Death.
15. Who wins the play at dice?
Ans: Life-in Death wins the play at dice and so she gets the Ancient Mariner.
16. How did the two hundred sailors die?
Ans: The two hundred sailors died one after another without sighing or groaning.
17. What were the colours of the water-snakes?
Ans: The colours of the water-snakes were blue, shining green and black like velvet.
18. How did the Ancient Mariner bless the water-snakes?
Ans: The Ancient Mariner blessed the water-snakes unconsciously.
19. Why did the dead Albatross fall off from the Ancient Mariner’s neck?
Ans: As the Ancient Mariner blesses the water-snakes, he enjoys the grace of God and as a result the dead Albatross fell off from his neck into the sea.
20. When did the Ancient Mariner fall into deep sleep?
Ans: When the Ancient Mariner had shown true love to the water-snakes, he relieved of the curse of the sailors and fell into a deep sleep.
21. How did the Ancient Mariner feel when he woke up?
Ans: When the Ancient Mariner woke up, he felt that his lips were moistened, his throat was cold and his clothes were wet with rain.
22. What were the two voices heard in the air by the Ancient Mariner?
Ans: The two voices heard in the air by the Ancient Mariner are the Spirit of Justice and the Spirit of Mercy.
23. ‘I saw a third’- Who was the third man the Ancient Mariner saw?
Ans: The third man was the good Hermit in the skiff-boat.
24. How did the ship of the Ancient Mariner sink?
Ans: When the skiff-boat came within the reach of the ship, a thunder-like sound was produced. Gradually, it became louder and the water was divided into two parts and the ship sank into it like a lump of lead.
25. How was the Ancient Mariner saved from being drowned?
Ans: The Ancient Mariner was saved in the Pilot’s boat.
26. How many sailors were on the board of the ship?
Ans: There were two hundred sailors.
27. What is a ballad?
Ans: Ballad is a kind of poem or song that tells a story.
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