Modern Poetry, Previous Year Brief Solution PDF (M.A. Final in English)
- M.A. Final Year
- Department of English
- Subject: Modern Poetry
- Subject Code:311105
- Prepared by Mofizur Rahman
- 2014 to 2019
Previous Year Brief Solution-2014
a) What is the basic symbol in the poem 'Song of Myself"?
Answer. "I is the basic symbol.
b) When did Yeats receive the Novel Prize?
Answer. In December 1923.
c) What is the name of the wife in the poem "Home Burial"?
Answer. Amy.
d) What is the meaning of the word 'en masse'?*
Answer. All together.
e) What is the central theme in the poem 'Poem in October'?
Answer. It celebrates the joy a person feels on the arrival of such a day in course of time.
f) What request does the boy make to his his sister in 'Out and Out'?
Answer. Not to let the doctor cut off his hand.
g) Whom does W.B.Yeats address in 'When You are Old"?
Answer. Maud Gimme.
h) How does Warren define a home?*
Answer. As a place where one is forced to meet obligations (),no matter how unwillingly.
i) What does the title 'The Shield of Achilles' refer to?
Answer. The shield stands as a sign of bravery and courage which reflects the aspects of Greek civilization and was made especially for Achilles by the blacksmith of Gods, Hephaestous, the blacksmith of the Gods.
j) What is surrealism?
Answer. A style in art and literature in which ideas, images and objects are combined in a strange way, like a dream.
k) What does the title 'Lallaby' signify?
Answer. The title indicates it is a song of the poet to send his beloved to sleep with her head on his arm.
l) What is the meaning of green age?
Answer. Boyhood or the youthful period of life.
Previous Year Brief Solution-2015
a) What is Walt Whitman's idea of immortality of the soul?
Answer. He believes that the souls blend with the Divine Soul after the release from death.
b) What is the nationality of W.B.Yeats?
Answer. He is an Irish poet.
c) How many sections are there in 'Song of Myself?"
Answer. 52 sections.
d) Why is Maud Gone compared with Halen?
Answer. Because she had finely inscribed features and her personality was high and solitary and unkind like that of Halen.
e) What is the central theme of the poem "Mowing"?
Answer. The vision of New England.
f) What type of poem is "In Memory of W.B.Yeats"?
Answer. Elegy.
g) What does the wall stand for in "Mending Wall"?
Answer. The wall stands for barriers.
h) What does "The Force" signify?
Answer. It refers to some powerful energy. The poet means to say that some supreme power is at work in all Nature as well as in the human body.
i) Whom does Achilles refers to?"
Answer. The modern man who is unable to think in a world of cruelty, violence and cowardice.
j) What is the theme of the poem 'Digging'?
Answer. It states the poet's choice of a career to dig up the perfect words with his pen in his quest for literary achievement in imitation of his forefathers who were digging their lands with spade.
k) What does the poet mean by 'Wintry fever'?
Answer. Sickness of old age.
I) What is 'Spiritus Mundi'?"
Answer. The collective spirit of mankind.
Previous Year Brief Solution-2016
a) Where and when does Whitman behold God?"
Answer. He feels the presence of God everywhere each hour of the twenty four and each moment.
b) What does Yeats see in 'exciled reverie'?
Answer. He sees through his mind's eye the future years of violence,bloodsheds and madness of unruly people who seem to have already come dancing to the balanced of a instrument which is being beaten madly.
c) In what sense does grass symbolize dramocracy?"
Answer. The grass knows no discrimination by growing at all places, on the other hand, dramocracy could not devided among the black and white people.
d) What is Auden's massage in Lallaby?"
Answer. Eros (Physical love) should be transformed into Agape (universal love) which makes perfect mankind from mortal, spiritual crisis,cares and anxieties of the world.
e) How does Warren define a home?
Answer. As a place where one is forced to meet obligations (fi), no matter how unwillingly.
f) What is the meaning of 'Gyres'?
Answer. The increasing spiral (chic) that can be traced conically starting from a point and eventually expanding a circle.
g) Why does the wife hate her husband in 'Home Barial'?
Answer. Because he had been unfeeling enough to dig his own baby's grave and intrude her grief with talk of common things.
h) Who 'according to Auden' die morally?
Answer. The people who fail to oppose the cruelty of the despotic (a) rulers, face the
wrist of all disgraces (e), humiliations and they die morally because of their cowardice,before they are physically dead.
i) In whose honour does Dylan Thomas write his verses?
Answer. The lovers whose arms are twined in warm embrace and who also at the same hold in their arms the sorrows and misfortunes of humanity.
j) What does the girl in the poem 'Punishment' symbolize?
Answer. The girl symbolizes Ireland as she was murdered at the hand of a group of oppressors.
k) What does Thomas mean by 'Spindrifite pages'?
Answer. Short-lived nature of his poems.
I) How was young Heaney alienated from his father?
Answer. Because of his foolishness and because he interfered with his serious work on the land.
Previous Year Brief Solution-2017
a) What does Whitman mean by the word en masse?
Answer. All together.
b) How many sections are there in Song of Myself?
Answer. 52 sections.
c) What is meaning of the expression Harled the little street upon the great?
Answer. By the quoted expression the poet means to say that Maud Gone excited common people to revolt against government and also against the aristocracy.
d) What are the reasons for the gloomy mind of the poet 'A Prayer for My Daughter'?
Answer. Beause of this great gloom, he walked and prayed for his daughter to be protected from the physical strom outside and the political strom gathering across Island.
e) What happened in 1916 in the poem. "Easter 1916"?
Answer. It commemorates (feat aca) the martyrs of the Early Rising, a revolt against the British government in Ireland in 1916, which resulted in the execution (f) of Irish nasitionalists whom Yeats knew personally.
f) Whom does the poet address as he lands on the shore of Byzantium?
Answer. Byzantium's long-dead wise men and saints.
g) What is Auden's massage in 'Lallaby'?
Answer. Eros (Physical love) should be transformed into Agape (universal love) which makes perfect mankind from mortal, spiritual crisis,cares and anxieties of the world.
h) Who is the mother of Achilles?
Answer. Thetis.
i) What does Dylan Thomas mean by Green Fuse?
Answer. Fuge suggests explosive force or energy or power.It is called green because it is at work in Nature which is green.
j) What kind of poem 'After the Funeral '?
Answer. Elegy.
k) What kind of farm life does Heaney's portray in the poem 'Digging'?
Answer. The hard life of the farmers who have to work in an unfavorable situation in the field.
l) What does falcon symbolize in the poem 'The Second Coming'?
Ans. Falcon symbolizes the intellect.
Previous Year Brief Solution-2018
a) In what sense does grass symbolize dramocracy?
Answer. The grass knows no discrimination by growing at all places, on dramocracy could not devided among the black and white people the other hand,
b) What according to Whitman is the handkerchief of the lord"?
Answer. The grass.
c) What does 'golden bird' symbolizes to Yeats?
Answer. The liberated () soul which neither undergoes any change, suffer from any conflict annd confusion of which human beings are victims.
d) What is intellectual hatred'?
Ans. The hatred of an educated and conscious person
e) What does assert in the poem 'Fire and Ice'?
Answer. The destructive force of human passions, love and hatred.
f) What is the source of the title of the poem 'Out and Out'?
Answer. It has taken from Shakespeare's Macbeth in which Macbeth soliloquies, "out out brief candle!".
g) Why does Auden call lover faithless?
Answer. Because he is a human being with necessary human imperfections and as such he is bound to be changeable in his love.
h) What does the title "The shield of Achilles' signify?
Answer. The shield stands as a sign of bravery and courage which reflects the aspects of Greek civilization and was made especially for Achilles by the blacksmith of Gods, Hephaestous, the blacksmith of the Gods.
i) What are "suffered fox and stale fern"?
Answer. That served as embellishments (r)in his aunt room.
j) What are "mule praises"?
Answer. The expressions of the poet's ants mourners grief are only conventional but also stupid.So he calls their mourning 'mule praises'.
k) What is the moral of the poem 'Mowing"?
Answer. The real life with all it's hard labour, can give greater pleasure than all fanciful dreams of man.
1) What is 'Spiritus Mundi'?
Answer. The collective spirit of mankind.
Previous Year Brief Solution-2019
a) Where does Whitman behold God?
Answer. He feels the presence of God everywhere each hour of the twenty four and each moment.
b) How many sections of there in the poem, 'Song of Myself"?
Answer. 52 sections.
c) What kind of husband does Yeats wish for his daughter?
Answer. He prays that his daughter to be married to a good husband who takes her to a home with aristocratic values and traditions.
d) Whom do 'Leada' and 'the swan' represent?
Answer. Leada represents a Greeck woman and the swan represents the Zeus (or Jupiter)
e) Who is the speaker in the poem, "Mending Wall"?
Answer. The speaker says it all of his point of view in a first person narrative.
f)What is 'Horn of Plenty'?
Answer. Cornucopia comes from Latin cornucopia, which translates literally as 'horn of Plenty'.
g) What does inner weather symbolize?
Answer. The spiritual anguish, doubts and conflicts by which the poet is torn and tossed.
h) Who was Achilles?
Answer. Achilles refers to the modern man who is unable to think in a world of cruelty, violence and cowardice.
i) Who is Harlod Wilson?
Answer. A young school boy.
j) To which life compared in 'Briches'?
Answer. Life is compared to a pathless wood.
k) What is the meaning of green age?
Answer. Boyhood or the youthful period of life.
I) Who is a Miss Wall?
Answer. Miss wall is a school teacher.
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