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PAPER I (Poetry)
2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
9. Answer the following questions. (Structural Elements of a Poem)
(i) How many types are there of verse form?
(ii) What do you understand by rhyme scheme?
(iii) What is rhythm?
(iv) What is a couplet?
(v) What is a heroic couplet?
(vi) Define a stanza?
(vii) What is a quatrain?
(viii) What is a sestet?
(ix) What is an octave?
(x) What is a blank verse?
(xi) What is a free verse?
(xii) Define meter.
(xiii) What is an iamb?
(xiv) Define iambic pentameter.
(xv) What is foot is poetry?
10. Answer the following questions.
(i) What, according to Wordsworth, is the role of a poet?
(ii) What is Wordsworth's theory of poetry?
(iii) What is the function of beauty according to Wordsworth?
(iv) What does Wordsworth think of humanity?
(v) What was Wordsworth's attitude towards the French Revolution?
(vi) Why 'The Prelude' is not an epic?
(vii) Does Wordsworth attitude towards nature undergo a significant change in the course of 'The
Prelude'?
(viii) What is the main idea of 'The Prelude'?
(ix) What is the role of 'effective memory' in 'Tintern Abbey'?
(x) In what sense does 'Tintern Abbey' offer readers a 'religion of nature'?
(xi) How is the poem 'Tintern Abbey' pantheistic?
(xii) What is the main idea of 'Tintern Abbey'?
(xiii) What are the major themes of 'Ode on Immortality'?
(xiv) Interpret 'The Child is the Father of Man'.
(xv) What does Wordsworth mean by imagination? Is it comparable to fancy?
11. Wordsworth As a Romantic Poet
12. Wordsworth As a Poet of Nature
13. Theme of Memory in Wordsworth's Poetry
14. Main Features of 'The Prelude Book - I'
15. Critical Appreciation of 'Tintern Abbey, Revisited'
16. Critical Appreciation of 'Ode on Immortality'
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
3. P.B. SHELLEY
17. Answer the following questions. (Sound Devices Used in Poetry)
(i) Define alliteration.
(ii) Define assonance.
4. JOHN KEATS
25. Answer the following questions. (Poetic Devices of Meaning I)
(i) What do you mean by figurative language?
(ii) What is a literary allusion?
(iii) What is an analogy?
(iv) What is an ambiguity?