BEGC-109 · December 2024 · English
IGNOU BEGC-109 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-109, December 2024 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 7
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONS.) (ENGLISH)
(BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2024
BEGC-109 : BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note :
(i) Question No. 1 is compulsory.
(ii) Answer any three from among the rest of
the questions.
Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following : 2×12 2=25
(a) Romantic age as the age of Revolutions. [ 2 ] BEGC–109
(b) Study George Crabbe’s “The Village” in the context of topographical poetry.
(c) Ceremonial praise of the sea in Byron’s “Roll on thou Deep and Dar k Blue ocean.”
(d) Synaesthesia in John Keats’ poetry.
Q2.Attempt a critical appreciation of Robert Southey’s poem “Affer Blenheim” with special emphasis on his views on war.
Q3.Comment on the element of humour i n Charles Lamb’s “A Dissertation upon Roasted Pig”.
Q4.Discuss Wordsworth’s theory of poetry and its applications or departures in the context of his poems “Tintern Abbey” and “Daffodils”.
Q5.Critically analyse the irony of fate in William Blake’s poems, j uxtaposing “The Lamb” and “The Chimney Sweeper”.
Q6.Discuss John Keat s’ idea of transience with reference to “Ode to Autumn”.
Q7.Explore the dichotomy of nature and science in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”.