IGNOU BEGE-143 December 2022 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following : 210=20

(a) Poetic narrative in ‘The Ruined Cottage’

(b) Significance of rain in ‘A Rain of Rites’

(c) Myth in ‘The Ancient Rocks of Cherra’

(d) Modernism in America

Q2.Explain with reference to the context, any two of the following : 210=20

(a) Mountain – like body Mountain – like chest Mountain – like complexion

(b) Let us roll our strength, and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife.

(c) Masses of flowers load the cherry branches and colour some bushes

(d) I used to think, ugh. The only person with whom I have not exchanged confidences is my hairdresser.

Q3.Answer any three of the following questions : 3 20=60

(a) Write a crit ical analysis of the poem ‘Crossing the Bar’.

(b) Comment on the use of landscape in the poems of K.N. Daruwalla and Dilip Chitre.

(c) Critically analyse the poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’.

(d) "Wallace Stevens i s an Imagist poet with a difference." Comment.

(e) Discuss Browning’s ‘The Last Ride Together’ as a dramatic monologue.