NU Honours 3rd Year Exam 2023 Held 2025
Department: English
Victorian Poetry Subject code: 231111
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B-Part

  1. How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?100%
  2. Discuss the main theme of the poem The Windhover 100%
  3. Why does Hopking grateful to God for his creations of ‘dapp things 100%
  4. Summarize the poem “The Windhover”. 100%
  5. How does Arnold present a contrast between the life of the Scholar Gypsy and that of the modern man?100%
  6. What kind of a man was the Duke of the poem ‘My Last Duchess?/Character of the Duke.100%
  7. How does Browning treat love in “Fra Lippo Lippi”?100%
  8. How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in “Locksley Hall?
    Or, How does Tennyson denounce materialism “Locksley Hall”? 100%
  9. What picture of a futuristic world does Tennyson depict in his poem Locksley Hall?99%
  10. Give a pen picture of the Lotos land.99%
  11. How does Tithonus idealize mortality?99%
  12. Critically comment on the causes of failure of Andrea as a painter.99%
  13. How does Arnold present the contrast between the man-made things and the objects of nature in ‘Thyrsis’?99%
  14. Comment on the ending of the poem “Thyrsis’.99%
  15. Examine the nature of Browning’s optimism in The Last Ride Together’.
    Or, Discuss the note of pessimism as reflected in Arnold’s Thyrsis’ 99%
  16. With what vision did the Scholar Gipsy leave the university?99%
  17. How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in Felix Randal?99%
  18. Why was Margaret shocked in ‘Spring and Fall?99%

C-Part

  1. What romantic elements do you find in Tennyson’s poems that you have studied?100%
  2. Comment on Browning’s attitude to art and life as revealed in his poems.
    Or. How does Browning juxtapose art with life in his poems? Discuss. 100%
  3. Consider ‘Pied Beauty’ as a religious poem. 100%
    4 .Discuss Arnold’s treatment of nature in his poems. 100%
  4. Write a critical appreciation of Tennyson’s poem “The Lotos Eaters”.100%
  5. Evaluate Hopkins’s appreciation of nature. 100%
  6. Critically comment on the imagery used in have read.
    Or. Comment on romantic elements in Hopkins’ poems you have read. 100
  7. What is elegy? Discuss “Thyrsis” as an elegy. 100%
  8. Comment on the contrast between the utopia and the real world as reflected in ‘Lotos Eaters’, 99%
  9. What picture of Victorian compromise do you find in Tennyson’s
    poems that you have read? Discuss critically. 99%
  10. How does Browning reflect the Renaissance temper in his poems?Discuss. 99%
  11. Do you think that Browning is an optimist? Elucidate with reference
    to the poems you have read. 99%
  12. Evaluate Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gipsy’ as a pastoral elegy.99%
  13. Critically appreciate the poem ‘My Last Duchess’. 99%
    15.Give the substance of the poem “Pied Beauty”, 99%