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UGC NET Solved Paper III ; Subject -- English ;December : 2009 Analysing an unknown poem (Report from the Hospital by Polish poet Wisława Szymborska)

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SECTION – I (  In the newly structured syllabus it is in Paper III, Section IV) UGC NET Solved  Paper  III ; Subject -- English  ; December :  2009. This section contains five (5) questions based on the following poem. Each question should be answered in about thirty (30) words and carries five (5) marks. (5 × 5 = 25 marks) Wisława Szymborska We drew lots, who would go and see him. It was me. I got up from our table. It was almost time for visiting hours. He said nothing in reply to my greeting. I tried to take his hand – he pulled it back like a hungry dog who wouldn’t give up a bone. He seemed ashamed of dying. I don’t know what you say to someone like him. As in a photomontage, our eyes would not meet. He didn’t ask me to stay or go. He didn’t ask about anyone at our table. Not about you, Bolek. Not about you, Tolek. Not about you, Lolek. My head began to ache. Who was dying for whom ? I praised medicine and the three violets in the glass. I talked about the sun and tho

How to Analyze a Poem : Technicality & Ethics

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The beautiful part in reading literature is the reading poetry. In fact, you too enjoy the practice of making clever rhymes or noting down your own feelings in loose sentences, known as poetry. The periodicals and newspapers make a large demand for these exercises in rhyme and rhythm: it is really nice to see you born as poet. As a Student of Literature , however, you have to read rather than write most of Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Chaucer, Byron, Eliot, Sidney, Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton, some William Shakespeare, a little Dryden, and a certain amount of Tennyson . While reading a poem and reaching to its meaning you are following the prime of an objective observer rather than a creative articulator. Before we go any further, I want to set some straight points regarding an analysis of a poem.       You have to develop your own ideas based on the raw material of the poem you are about to read. This process is important to validate your own version of reading the tex

Short Questions From The age of Pope (1700-50)

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The age of Pope (1700-50) Historical Events  &  Literary Events 1700 BEGIN OF London Club 1702 First daily newspaper 1727 Death of Newton 1775 War of American independence begins. 1776 America declared independent. 1789 Outbreak of French Revolution. 1726 Gulliver’s Travells by Jonathan Swift. 1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 1766 The Vicar of wakefield by Goldsmith 1719 Rabinson crusoe by Defoe. 1728 Beggar’s opera by Gay. 1712 The Rape of The Lock by Pope. 1740 Pamela by Richardson. English Rulers 1702-1714 Anne 1714-27 George I1727-1760 George II Authors 1667-1745 Jonathan Swift 1668-1744 Alexander Pope 1689-1761 Samuel Richardson 1707-1754 Henry Fielding 1728-1774 Oliver Goldsmith 1672-1719 Joseph Addison 1716-1771 Thomas Gray 1721-59 Collins 1700-48 Thomson 1731-1800 Cowper 1709-84 Dr. Johnson

The Various Use of Symbols in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"

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Introduction:   Virginia Woolf Written from multiple perspectives and shifting between times and characters with poetic grace, Virginia Woolf's  To The Lighthouse is not concerned with ordinary story telling. Rather through integrate symbolic web it reads the mind and recounts the passage of multiple experiences of different characters in the novel. The key symbols in To The Lighthouse are are – the sea, the lighthouse, Lily’s painting, the window, and the personalities of Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Ramsay. They are all woven together, along with many other less important ones, into a central meaning, which suggests Mrs. Woolf’s conception of life and reality.  Structurally, To The Lighthouse  is set in two parts, spanning over a decade before and after World War I. It focuses on the Ramsay family and their experiences at their summer home in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The first part of the novel is a stream of consciousness narrative that explores the inner thoughts and

Identity Of A Poet: ANALYSING THROUGH TEXT, TEXTURE, PLATFORM, SOCIETY, UNIVERSALITY

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oets create literary history and tradition by using and passing on poetic structures and ideas about life and art from generation to generation. They transmit information about the cultural life of the country. Their Literature can be a source of pleasure and a stimulus towards the citizens’ personal development. Much of the literary importance of Poets and their work stems from their use of moments that evoke an identity. In common usage, an identity indicates a realization or understanding that comes from an personality. Poet's identity , however, occur during his literary life. It covers the wide gamut of -- TEXT, TEXTURE, PLATFORM, SOCIETY, UNIVERSALITY etc. Although great poetry is sometimes said to be timeless, poets think of their writing as part of history, and they intentionally imitate earlier poets. The idea that a poem should be original is a relatively recent development, dating from English romantic poets of the early 19th century. Read More Poetry In fact m

The Characteristics of Romantic Poetry

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"Romanticism is the art of presenting people with the literary works which are capable of affording them the greatest possible pleasure, in the present state of their customs and beliefs. Classicism, on the other hand, presents them with the literature that gave the greatest possible pleasure to their great-grandfathers." Stendhal  (1783 - 1842),  French writer,   Racine and Shakespeare   T he Romantic Movement lasted from about 1750 to about 1870, is often defined as second Renaissance. Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic writing is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, freedom of thought and expression, an idealization of nature, and a dreamlike or visionary quality.  The Romantic Movement is both a revolt and revival .This movement in literature and the revolutionary idealism in European politics are both generated by the same human craving for freed

The Problems of Learning English Literature For Rural Indian Students

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T he article "The Problems of  Learning English Literature  For   Rural Indian Students" is based on my own observations and sharing views with students in India , supplemented by information collected from other resource persons in this field. A major source of information has been the large number of sighs and whims on exam papers, written by students . F ield survey of "The Problems of Learning English Literature For Rural Indian Students” took place during the rainy season 1999 when I was volunteering in a village primary school. This was during a rare and colourful phase of my transition, when I was preparing myself teaching and setting up structures for the continuation of my work. Further investigations have been made during visits to different schools and colleges in India and coaching tutorial to my students ranging primary to teaching aspirant from 2000 to till date. The better part of my study is conducted with rural students who have been studyi

A Brief Survey of Middle English Metrical and Alliterative Romance

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  S imply speaking, romances are fantasies in which the authors make the fullest use of their imagination and fancy and create an ideal world, which bears little or no semblance with real life. In the middle of the fourteenth century a revival of the old English alliterative verse occurs through romances, which develops – side by side with religions literature. This literature is inspired by French romantic poems and centers around Chivalry. There is an absence of originality but the fervour of nationalism is present in the literature of this period. Heroes and subjects connected with Britain are given reference in the romantic cycles of chivalry. British stories are valued most and the native poets get material for their original works.

Rhetorical devices as used by Francis Bacon in his "Essays"

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Francis Bacon in his writing Essays rather drives at a masculine and clear expression than at any fineness or affectation phrases. He rejects the flowing, ornate and copious Ciceronian style and follows the mode of Lypsian brevity and the cryptic aphoristic Senecan sentence structure. Despite this quite paradoxically Bacon is a rhetorical writer and his Essays are marked by the general ornateness, the fondness of imagery, the love of analogy and metaphor, which are so much in the taste of the time. It is also very highly Latinized. But it’s most important characteristics are its marvelous terseness and epigrammatic force. Here is an unparalleled power of packing his thoughts into the smallest possible space. Here is ‘infinite riches in a little room’. We will now try to access the rhetorical devices as employed in the two essays  – of studies & of Discourse . In of Studies there is mainly similes and metaphors used to simplify his ideas into more detailed and analytical

Model Answer For S S C English Teachers (Pass)

Do you trace ‘Myth making faculty’ in Shelley and Keats? Substantiate your answer. Ans. Myth making faculty means the poetic articulation, on something with utmost devotional zeal. Thus a common phenomena of life or nature Turn to be legend or mythical by the treatment of the poetic art. In Keats and Shelley such a quality is abundand. In Nightingale it is metamorphosed into a bird of spiritual and devide entity and takes a journey to get ‘permanent’. In ‘skylark’ too, the bird becomes a symbol of devine joy and bless and becomes a myth for Shellian creativity. How do you know that Shelley’s Skylark is true not a creature of ‘flesh and blood’? Ans. Through some concrete categorical hints from the poem we can easily form the ideal of the disembodied form of the bird skylark. It is a ‘spirit’ and ‘bird thou never west’. It is the spirited entity being the ‘cloud of fire’ with an ‘unbodied joy’.

UGC NET Solved Paper II ; Subject -- English ;June : 2010

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Paper-II 2 J-3010 ENGLISH Paper – II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.   ( ALL THE ANSWERS ARE COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE A LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS. WITHOUT SYLLOGISTIC FORMAT YOU NEED AN ELFIN TOWER TALL HEAD.) 1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to (A) Richardson ’s Pamela (B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (C) Fielding’s Tom Jones (D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ("Comic prose epics" is a type of epic derived from the serious epic that satirizes contemporary ideas or conditions in a form and style burlesquing the serious epic. It is also noted  as mock epics Exm: The Rape of the Lock (1712) by the English poet Alexander Pope. Several novels also fall into this category. Fielding himself refers to his two novels, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones , as "comic prose epics". In the preface Joseph Andrews , Fielding described his own fi

UGC NET syllabus : Subject : English

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UGC National Eligibility Test  English Syllabus 2023 Subject : English  UGC-NET IN OBJECTIVE MODE  The UGC-NET will be conducted in objective mode only with no negetive marks. The Test will consist of two papers. The two papers will consist of only objective type questions and will be held on the day of Examination in total duration of 3 hours in online mode. Mode: Online Time: 3 hours  Paper I ( general compulsory objective paper) Questions:  50 questions are to be attempted   Marks: 50x2 = 100 Paper – II  Note: It will cover 100 Objective Type Questions (Multiple choice, Matching type, True / False, Assertion – Reasoning type) carrying 200 marks. Questions:   100 questions all of which are compulsory Marks: 100x2 = 200 Questions Covers: Chaucer to Shakespeare Jacobean to Restoration Periods Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature Romantic Period Victorian Period Modern Period Contemporary Period American an

Critical Appreciation of Ted Hughes' "Hawk Roosting"

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Hawk Roosting is an Animal Poem Depicting Violence and Brutality Hawk Roosting , included in the volume Lupercal is Ted Hughes’ one of the best poems like View of A pig , Wodwo , Crow etc. It is Ted Hughes’ many sided, vivid, startling, and yet truthful observation. The hawk while ‘resting’ a top the wood with closed eye expresses his happy state and satisfaction. He thinks of his prey with sense of pride and authority. We will now analyze the poem as an animal poem, study of violence, depiction of Nature and its simple structure under the following heads.             Hawk Roosting is a monologue of a hawk, a bird of prey, attacking smaller birds and eating them to feed himself. Hughes’s reputation as a poet of the world of animals to an extend relies on  Hawk Roosting which is a hawk’s eye view of the world. The egoistic hawk here asserts his point of argument  that trees, air, sun and earth are there only for his convenience; that the purpose of creation was solely to

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