BEGC-104 · December 2020 · English
IGNOU BEGC-104 December 2020 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (14TH–17TH CENTURY)
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-104, December 2020 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 7 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
BACHELOR IN ENGLISH HONOURS
Term-End Examination
December, 2020
BEGC-104 : BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA—
14TH TO 17TH CENTURY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : All Sections/questions are compulsory.
Section—A
Q1.Explain with reference to the context any four of the following (150 words each) : 4×5=20
(a) Thou liknest eek wammenses love to helle, To bareynelond, ther water may natdwelle. Thou liknest it also to wildefyr.
(b) Shall I compare th ee to a summer’s day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
(c) Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o’ ersway their power How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea ?
(d) Death and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom you trink’st than dost overthrow.
(e) Call country ants to harvest offices, Love, all alike, no season knows nor clinic, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
(f) One day I wrote her name upon a strand, But came the waves and washed it away : Agayne I wrote it with a second hand.
Section—B
Q2.Write short notes on any two of the following (in 200 words each) : 2×10=20
(a) Marlowe as a dramatist
(b) The Sleepwalking scene
(c) Spenserian stanza
(d) Chaucer’s humanism and secular outlook
Section—C
Note : Attempt any three of the following questions
(in about 500-600 words each). 3×20=60
Q3.Discuss the theme of sin and redemption in Dr. Faustus.
Q4.Critically analyse the Banquet Scene in Macbeth.
Q5.Write a critical appreciation of Sonnet 18.
Q6.Discuss the structure of The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.
Q7.Explain the idea of love as projected by Spenser in the Amoretti. BEGC–104 4,220