ENG-258 UNDERSTANDING POETRY QUESTION BANK
1.What was a favourite theme of the Romantic Poets?
2.What are the three levels on which poetry criticism works?
3.Write a critical note on the impact of the Solitary Reaper’s song on the
poet?
4.Explain the difference between Images, Metaphors and Symbols with
suitable example
5.What are the characteristics of a lyric?
6.What is Ballad? Explain with examples.
7.What is Alliteration? Explain with examples.
8. What is Rhyme?
9. What is Stanza?
10. What are major characteristics of Romantic poetry?
11. Explain the features of Victorian Poetry.
12. What is Imagist Movement?
14. What is Modernist Style?
15. What is Black American Poetry?
16. What is the theme of the poem, ‘The Solitary Reaper’?
17.What is the setting of the poem, ‘Kubla Khan’?
18. Explain the theme of the poem, ‘To a Sky lark’?
19. Whose story does the poem, ‘ La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ narrate?
20.Explain Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ as a ‘Nature Poem’.
21.Explain the contrast between external. World and poet’s grief in the poem ‘Break,
Break, Break’.
22.Draw a character-sketch of ‘Ulysses’.
23. What is the setting of the poem ‘Meeting at Night’?
24. Explain the use of images in ‘Matthew Arnold’s Shakespeare’.
25. What is the theme of the poem ‘Dream Land’?
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