Suggestions For Victorian Poetry, 3rd year

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

Suggestions For Victorian Poetry, 3rd year

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



























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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