Model 30 DSC 101 UnitTest

DSC 101 ENGLISH
Full Marks - 20

1. Attempt any 5 of the following questions - 5x2= 10

a) Write the name of 2 metaphysical poets? 
b) How many flowers did Wordsworth see at a glance in the poem "The Daffodils"? Why did the poet compare himself with cloud?
c) What kind of poem " My Last Duchess" is ? Write the name of the 2 imaginary artists mentioned in this poem ? 
d) What is the tradition of Elizabethan Sonnets? Write the name of 2 Elizabethan Sonneters?
e) Write 2 features of Romantic poetry? 
f) Who write "Paradise Lost" ? When it was published? 
g) Write the name of 2 poems of John Keats?  The line" Beauty is truth, truth is beauty" has been taken from Which poem ? 
h) What do you understand by " Jocund Company" and Pensive mood" ?

2. Attempt any one of the following questions?  10x1= 10
a) Write a Critical Appreciation of the poem " The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth?
b) Discuss"My Last Duchess" as a dramatic monologue?
c) Write the central idea of the poem "The Second Coming "?

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