BEGC-109 · June 2023 · English

IGNOU BEGC-109 June 2023 Previous Year Question Paper

BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-109, June 2023 session.

Max marks: 100 · Questions: 7

Verified: 5 Aug 2026

B. A. (HONS.) (ENGLISH)

(BAEGH)

Term-End Examination

June, 2023

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) Salient features of Romanticism

(b) After Blenheim

(c) Victor Frankenstein

(d) Ode

Q2.Comment on William Blake’s ‘Son gs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of E xperience’ w ith reference to his poems ‘The Lamb ’ and ‘The Tyger’ and the two ‘The Chimney S weeper’ poems.

Q3.What change did Wordsworth experience in his perception of Nature as he moved from childhood to maturity in his ode on ‘Intimations of Immortality from Recollection s of Early Childhood’ ?

Q4.Discuss Keats’ Hellenism in the c ontext of ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.

Q5.Give an account of the sufferings that the mariner undergoes at various sta ges in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.

Q6.In Shelley’s ‘To A S kylark’ the Skylark is compared to which different things ? What appeal does the poet make to the Skylark ?

Q7.Describe M ary Shelley ’s ‘Frankenstein’ as a gothic novel. 25 BEGC–109 8,720