BEGE-143 · June 2022 · English
IGNOU BEGE-143 June 2022 Previous Year Question Paper
UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGE-143, June 2022 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 3 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B.A. GENERAL
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE BAG CORE COURSE
(CBCS)
Term-End Examination
June, 2022
BEGE-143 : UNDERSTANDING POETRY
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note: Answer all questions.
SECTION A
Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following : 2x10=20
(a) Speaker’s tone in ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’
(b) Ramanujan’s poetic style
(c) Theme of Kashmir in the poem ‘Postcard of Kashmir’.
(d) Atmosphere created in ‘Mountain Child’
SECTION B
Q2.Explain with reference to the context any two of the following : 2x10=20
(a) Hurry up! any minute they will be bringing it from the hospital — a white model of our lives
(b) Iresemble everyone But myself, and sometimes see In shop-windows despite the well-known laws
(c) Putting a five paise coin on a little hand saying ‘go eat candy’ taking the little bundle from the cradle to your breast
(d) We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tomb and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse,
SECTION C
Q3.Answer any three of the following questions : 3x 20=60
(a) Comment on the title of the poem ‘Pariah God’.
(b) Discuss the use of language in Robert Frost’s poems.
(c) Discuss Coleridge as a poet of Romanticism.
(d) Write a critical note on Dalit women’s writing.
(e) Critically analyse the poem ‘Bequest’.