JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1
M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 103
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 15
Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the students.
It carries 5 Marks. (1*5=5 Marks) (50-100 Words)
Q. 1. Answer all the questions:
Q.1 what are the chief characteristics of Romantic Literature?
Q.2 Bring out the theme of Coleridge “Kubla Khan”.
Q.3 Why William Colleing wishes to visit a love heath or an ancient ruin?
Q.4 what is the significance of the title of John Keats “Ode to Grecian Urn”?
Q.5 Define any two of the following:
i. Ode ii. Ballad
iii. Elegy
NOTE: Answer any two questions. Each question carries 5 Marks. (1*5=5 Marks) (500 Words).
Q.1 Write a critical appreciation of Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on Distant Prospect of Eton College.”
Q.2 “Emotion recollected in tranquality.” Illustrate this view of poetry from Book I of “The Prelude”.
Q.3 “In the great Odes, Keats exploses the relation between pleasure and pain, happiness and
Melancholy, imagination and reality, with brilliant poetic force.” Discuss this statement in the
Light of keats’s “Ode to Melancholy.”
JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 2
M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 103
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 15
Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the students.
It carries 5 Marks. (1*5=5 Marks) (50-100 Words)
Q. 1. Answer all the questions.
Q.1 Discuss the following lines with reference to the context.
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony
Q.8 Write a short note on “Scholarly Ignorance” as discussed by Hazliff in his essay. On the
Ignorance of the learned.”
Q.9 What is the central theme of Thomas Gray’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Q.10 “Adonais” is Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats”.Discuss.
Note: Answer any two questions. Each question carries 5 marks (Word limits 500)
Q.4 How does coleridge use the supernatural in such a way in “The Ancient Mariner” to create a
Willing suspension of disbelief?
Q.5 Comment on Sheridon’s art of characterisation in his the Rivals.
Q.6 “For the more languages a man can speak. His talent has but sprung the great leak : And, for
the industry he has spent upon it, must full as much some other way discount.” Discuss
Their lives in light of William Hazlitt’s essay “on the ignorance of the learned”.
Q.7 Bring out the qualities which make Collin’s “Ode to Evening” one of his greatest practical
Achievements.