Suggestions For Victorian Poetry, 3rd year

Suggestions For Victorian Poetry, 3rd year
Subject: Victorian Poetry
Short Questions & Broad Questions

Tennyson (Victorian Poetry)

• Locksley Hall

1. Why did the speaker of the poem 'Locksley Hall' fail to marry his beloved? [Page-46]

2. What is
the glass of Time? [See A Study Guide, Page-43]

3. How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in
"Locksley Hall"? [See A Study Guide, Page-44]

4. What is Tennyson's opinion's about knowledge and wisdom? [See A Study Guide, Page-45]

5. What optimistic
belief of Tennyson do you find in the poem "Locksley Hall"? [See A
Study Guide, Page-45]

 

• The Lotos Eaters

1. Why does it seem always afternoon in the land of the
Lotos

Eaters? (See A Study Guide, Page-53] 

2. How does the poet
portray the changing moods of the sailors in "The Lotos Eaters"? [Page -54]

3. What is the effect of the Lotos on the sailors? [See A
Study Guide, Page-55]

4. How do the mariners contrast their toilsome life with the processes of Nature? [Page-56]

5. Describe the land of the Lotos Eaters. [See A Study
Guide, Page-541

 

• Oenone

1. Why is Oenone in a sad mood? [See A Study Guide, Page-47]

2. Write a note on dramatic monologue. (See A Study Guide,
Page 731

3. Can "Oenone" be termed as dramatic monologue?
[See A Study Guide, Page-46

4. the moral message the "Oenone"? [See of Study
Guide, Page-47]

5. Paris accept the offer Aphrodite? justified from your
point of view? [See Study Guide,

6. What the fault Oenone? Is she innocent victim fate? [See
Study Guide,

 

Tithonus

1. How "Tithonus" fall into the genre dramatic
monologue? [See A Study Page

2. Comment Tennyson's use of imagery "Tithonus". [See
A Study Page-60

3. Write note on character Tithonus. [See A StudyPage-63]

4. legend Tithonus serves purposes not onlypeople but also
for the mankind"-Discuss.[ Page-62]

Robert Browning(Victorian Poetry)

• Andrea del Sarto

1.  Describe character Lucrezia? [See A Study
Page-137]

2. Describe beauty Lucrezia. (See A Study Page-138]

3. Describe Andrea as faultless painter. (See A Study Guide,
-1391

4. Why Andrea consider himself failure as an artist? A Guide,
Page-139]

5. How does Browning deal with art artist's life "Andrea
del Sarto"? [See A Guide, Page-140)

6. How does Andrea criticize the contemporary style of
Renaissance art? [Page-141]

7. "Andrea del Sarto" is a poem of marital
tragedy. Elucidate this view. [Page-141]

• Fra Lippo Lippi

1. Describe the central theme of "Fra Lippo Lippi'?
[See 4 Study Guide, Page-143]

2. What kind of paintings had Fra Lippo's monastic superiors
wished him to paint? [Page-144]

3. Describe Browning's use of irony in "Fra Lippo
Lippi". [See A Study Guide, Page-147]

4. Describe Browning's attacks on idealized art in "Fra
Lippo Lippi". (See A Study Guide, Page-147]

5. Write what you know about Fra Lippo Lippi's early life.
[See A Study Guide, Page-146]

• The Last Ride Together

 

1. How does the lover rationalize his rejection by his
ladylove? [See A Study Guide, Page-131)

2. Why does the lover claims that his achievement is greater than that of a poet? [Page-132]

3. Why
does the lover consider himself superior to the sculptor? (See A Study Guide, Page-133]

4. Comment on the ending of the poem "The Last Ride Together". [See A Study Guide, Page-134)

5. Comment on the title of the poem, "The Last Ride
Together". [See 4 Study Guide, Page-134]

6. Examine the nature of Browning's optimism in 'The Last
Ride Together'. [page-135]

 

• My Last Duchess

1. Trace the elements of aristocratic life in "My Last
Duchess". (See A Study Guide, Page-149)

2. What Victorian quality do you find in "My Last
Duchess"? [See A Study Guide, Page-150]

3. Describe women's role and identity in Browning's "My
Last Duchess". [Page-151]

4. Point out the Victorian male dominion over the Victorian
women as you find in "My Last Duchess".

Page-151]

5. Describe Browning's attitude to art and artists as
expressed in "My Last Duchess". [Page-152)

6. What
kind of a man was the Duke of the poem 'My Last Duchess'? [See A Study Guide, Page-153]

 

Matthew Arnold(Victorian Poetry)

• Thyrsis

1. Describe the importance of the elm-tree in the lives of
Arnold and his friend. [ Page-220]

2. What is Amold's view about Truth? [See A Study Guide,
Page-2211

3. Comment on the ending of the poem "Thyrsis".
[Page-221]

4. How does Arnold present the contrast between the man made
things and the objects of nature in 'Thyrsis'? [See A Study Guide, Page-217]

• Dover Beach

1. What sensory images do you find in "Dover
Beach"? [See 4 Study Guide, Page-223)

2. Write a short note on 'Sophocles'. [See A Study Guide,
Page-224]

3. Why does Arnold refer to Sophocles? (See A Study Guide,
Page 224

4. Describe the image of the sea in "Dover Beach".
(See A Study Guide, Page-225] 

5. What is the poem 'Dover Beach' about? [See A
Study Guide, Page-222]

 

• The Scholar Gipsyon

1. What is pastoral elegy? [See 4 Study Guide, Page-226]

2. Discuss The Scholar Gipsy as a pastoral elegy. [See A
Study Guide, Page-227]

3. Write a short note on "Modern People" in
Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsy". [Page-229]

4. Describe Arnold's theory of poetry as criticism of life.
[See 4 Study Guide, Page-230]

5. Discuss Arnold's criticism of life in "The Scholar
Gipsy". [See A Study Guide, Page-230]

6. Describe, in brief, the legend of "The Scholar
Gipsy". [See A Study Guide, Page-228]

 

G.M. Hopkins(Victorian Poetry)

1. Write a short note Hopkins' presentation of the bird in
"The Windhover". [Page-273]

2. Summarize
the poem "The Windhover". [Page-274]

3. Consider "The Windhover" as a sonnet. [Page-275]

4. Who was Felix Randal? [See 4 Study Guide, Page-275]

5. What kind of joy did Hopkins feel when he prayed for the
blacksmith? [Page-278]

6. How is the blacksmith compared to the horse in 'Felix Randal'? [See A Study Guide, Page-277] 

7. Who was Margaret?
[See A Study Guide, Page-278]

8. What is the significance of the title "Spring and
Fall" by G. M. Hopkins? [Page-279

9. What biblical reference is made in the poem, "Spring
and Fall"? [See 4 Study Guide, Page-280]

10. Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem
"Spring and Fall". [See A Study Guide, Page-280 

11. The poem
"Spring and Fall" is about spirituality than nature. Discuss. [Page-279]

12. Why was Margaret shocked in 'Spring and Fall"? [Page-281]

13. What is pied beauty? [S Page-282] 

14.
Why does Hopking grateful to God for his creations of dappled things" [Page-283] 

15. What
is "Curtal" sonnet? [See A Study Guide, Page-284]

 

 

Broad Questions(Victorian Poetry)

Alfred Tennyson

1. Write on the pictorial quality of Tennyson's poetry. [See
4 Study Guide, Page-791 

2. How does Tennyson handle myth and legend
in the poems you have read? [Page-76]

3. Write how 'Tennyson highlights the Victorian spirit in
his poems./ Tennyson as a representative poet of his age [See 4 Study Guide,
Page-77]

4. 'Tennyson is at his best in his lyrical and descriptive
poems". Explain with illustrations. [Page -80]

Robert Browning

1. Justify Robert Browning as an optimistic poet. [See A
Study Guide, Page-173]

2. Evaluate Robert Browning as a writer of dramatic
monologues. [See A Study Guide, Page-175]

3. "The poetry of Robert Browning reveals a deep
knowledge of the psychology of men and women".-Discuss. [See A Study
Guide, Page-179]

Matthew Arnold

1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem
"Dover Beach". [See 4 Study Guide, Page-261]

2. Give an account of the pastoral elements in Arnold's
poetry that you have read. [ Page-247]

3. Comment on the elegiac elements as found in Arnold's
poems./ Discuss Arnold's poetry as criticism of life with reference to the
poems you have read. [See A Study Guide, Page-253])

4. Discuss The Scholar Gipsy' as a pastoral elegy. [See A
Study Guide, Page-250]

G. M. Hopkins

1. Describe Hopkins as a religious poet Trace the devotional elements in Hopkins's poetry [Page-301]

2. Critically analyse "Felix Randal" as a sonnet.
[See 4 Study Guide, Page-308]

3. Consider 'Pied Beauty as a religious poem. [See A Study
Guide, Page-305]

4. Write about the imagery that you find in the poem
"Felix Randal'. [See A Study Guide, Page-310]

Short Notes (Victorian Poetry)

• Fra Lippo Lippi
• Andrea
• Oenone
• Ulysses
• Michael Angelo 
• The Cumner Hills
•  Raphael
• Phoenician tradero 
•  Arthur Hugh Clough
•  Oxford Movements
• Bold Musicality 
• Sonnets
• Michael Angelo 
• Cosimo of the Medici
• The Oxford countryside 19. The Last Duchess
• Oxford Movement 20. Neptune lasotang se 21.
• Dover la Tyrian trader
• Dido