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IGNOU BEGC-109 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain the basic characteristics of British Romantic Poetry.
2. What Romantic tendencies in Collins won the appreciation of Coleridge?
3. Comment on Blake’s portrayal of children and childhood in his Songs of Innocence and Experience.
4. Critically comment on the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
5. Discuss the poetic devices used in “The Rhyme of Ancient Mariner”.
6. What are the romantic tendencies of Collins that won the appreciation of S.T. Coleridge?
7. Write a critical appreciation of the poem “To a Skylark”.
8. Critically explain the major themes of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
9. Explain the significance of the albatross being hung around the neck of the mariner.
10. Discuss the connection between the life sketch of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein.
IGNOU BEGC-109 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Explain the basic difference between the Neoclassical and Romantic theories of poetry.
2. Define ‘Romantic Literature’ explaining the origin of the term ‘Romantic’, giving various definitions, and elucidating salient features of romanticism.
3. Comment on Blake’s portrayal of children and childhood in his Songs of Innocence and Experience.
4. Explain Coleridge’s ideas on ‘Fancy’ and ‘Imagination’.
5. Romantic poetry is replete with mystery, aura and quaintness of phenomena.How is ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’ a masterpiece of romantic poetry in this sense?
6. What are the romantic tendencies of Collins that won the appreciation of S.T. Coleridge?
7. Critically interpret the poem “Ode to the West Wind”.
8. Describe Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a gothic novel.
9. Give an account of the sufferings that the mariner undergoes at various stages in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
10. Discuss the connection between the life sketch of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein.
