(A) an elegy
(B) a collection of elegies
(C) a lyric
(D) a dramatic lyric
Tag: Poetry in English
“Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not” Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words?
(A) Thomas Hardy
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(C) a young man
(D) All of the above
“In all things, in all natures, in the stars, This active principle abides,” Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Thomas Hardy
(C) Both
(D) None
Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
(A) Silas Manner
(B) Adam Bede
(C) Middle March
(D) The Mill on the Floss
‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
(A) Ulysses
(B) The Palace of Arts
(C) The Lotos – Eaters
(D) None of these
She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! The above two lines have been taken from:
(A) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
(B) A Thing of Beauty
(C) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
(D) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust?
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) Tess.
(C) Both
(D) None
The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly; The above two lines occur in:
(A) Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(B) Shelley’s Adonis
(C) Keats’ Ode to Psyche
(D) None of these