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IGNOU MEG-01 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
1.Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context:
(i)A povre wydwe somdeel stape in age,
Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage,
Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale.
This wydwe, of which I telle yow my tale,”
(ii) At length they all to mery London came,
To mery London, my most kyndly nurse,
That to me gave, this lifes first native sourse
Though from another place I take my name,”
(iii) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?
(iv) Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”
2.Critically evaluate the following poems:
(a) The Garden
(b) The Blessed Damozel
3.Discuss the poem The Triumph of Life in the light of the opinion that “Shelley achieves the sublime”.
4.Discuss Yeats’s use of history in his poems ‘Easter 1916’ and ‘Lapis Lazuli’.
5.Do you think that Daddy, a poem by Sylvia Plath, is a protest against patriarchy? Critically comment.
IGNOU MEG-01 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context:
(i) Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes
For Goddess love, as taak som laxative.
Up peril of my soule and o lif,
I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,
(ii) My loue is now awake out of her dreams (s),
and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were
With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams
More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.
(iii) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?
(iv) Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike
2. Highlight the salient features of Romanticism with illustrations from the poems prescribed for study.
3. Attempt a comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs.
4. Would you agree that Milton reflects on blindness in Sonnets 19 & 23? Give a reasoned answer.
5. Would you consider Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically.
