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IGNOU BEGC-112 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Section A
I Explain the following passages with reference to the context.
1. ““What are you saying Septimus,” Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was talking to himself. She sent Agnes running for Dr. Holmes. Her husband, she said, was mad. He scarcely knew her. “You brute! You brute!” cried Septimus, seeing human nature, that is Dr. Holmes enter the room.”
2. “The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
3. “Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.”
4. “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.”
Section B
II. Write short notes on the following:
1. Characteristics of modernist poetry
2. Psychoanalytic readings of Sons and Lovers.
3. The experimental plot of Mrs. Dalloway.
4. The theme of the poem ‘The Journey of the Magi’.
III. Write short essays on the following:
1. Explain the significance of the title of the poem ‘I think continually of those who are truly great.’
2. Discuss the themes of class and social mobility with reference to Sons and Lovers.
Section C
IV. Discuss the symbolism in the poem ‘The Second Coming’, with reference to Yeats’s cyclical theory of history.
IGNOU BEGC-112 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
SECTION A
I Explain the following passages with reference to the context.
1. “For, now that it was all over, truce signed, and the dead buried, he had,
especially in the evening, these sudden thunder-claps of fear. He could
not feel. As he opened the door of the room where the Italian girls sat
making hats, he could see them; could hear them; they were rubbing
wires among coloured beads in saucers; they were turning buckram
shapes this way and that; the table was all strewn with feathers, spangles,
silks, ribbons; scissors were rapping on the table; but something failed
him; he could not feel. Still, scissors rapping, girls laughing, hats being
made protected him; he was assured of safety; he had a refuge.”
2. “But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the
city’s gold phosphorescence. His fists were shut, his mouth set fast. He
would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked
towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.”
3. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
4. “A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
the ways deep and the weather
sharp,
The very dead of winter.”
SECTION B
II. Write short notes on the following:
1. Characteristics of modernism and post-modernism.
2. The “Stream of Consciousness Technique” and early twentieth century British fiction.
3. The Biblical and historical contexts of the poem ‘The Second Coming’.
4. The major themes and concerns of the novel Mrs. Dalloway.
III. Write short essays on the following:
1. “Class and social mobility are central concerns in D.H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers.” Discuss this statement.
2. Explain the title of the poem “The Unknown Citizen”.
SECTION C
IV. Discuss the central theme of the poem “Journey of the Magi” and comment on the symbolism in the poem.
