M. A. (Second Semester) Examination, June 2021 

(Regular)

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Paper : First

(Poetry)



1. Choose the correct option :

(i). ‘Adonais’ is written in the memory of .............. 

(a) Keats ✅

(b) Shelley

(c) Shakespeare

(d) His father 

(ii) Rhyming scheme of ‘The Poison Tree’ written by Blake :

(a) AABB✅

(b) ABAB

(c) ABBA

(d) AAAB  

(iii) The opening section of the “The Waste Land” written by T. S. Eliot :

(a) The Burial of the Death

(b) Death by Water

(c) The Fire Sermon✅

(d) Land of Beginning 

(iv) Ulysses is published in :

(a) 1833

(b) 1842✅

(c) 1855

(d) 1860

(v) Where does the soldier in “Strange Meeting by W. H. Auden’ find himself?

(a) In hell✅

(b) In purgatory

(c) In heaven

(d) At home

(vi) Who owned the farm Fern Hill derives its title from ............... .

(a) Thomas’s father✅

(b) Thomas’s aunt

(c) Thomas’s sister

(d) Thomas’s brother

(vii)Thomas Gray’s poem ‘The Bard’ and ‘The Progress of Poesy’ belong to the category of :

(a) Pastoral Elegy

(b) Pindaric Ode✅

(c) Horatian Ode

(d) Commemorative Lyric