Answer :
MASTER’S
DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH
Term-End
Examination
June,
2015
MEG-1:
BRITISH POETRY
Time:
3 hours Maximum
Marks: 100
Note: Answer
question no. 1 and any four from the remaining ones.
1. Explain with critical comments
any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts :
a) And specially from every shires
ende
Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende,
They hooly blissful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan what they
Were seeke.
These
lines are from The Canterbury Tales, which is the most famous and critically
acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late-fourteenth-century English poet.
Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life, and even less about his
education, but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer’s original
plan for The Canterbury Tales was for each character to tell four tales, two on
the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. But, instead of 120 tales, the
text ends after twenty-four tales, and the party is still on its way to
Canterbury. Chaucer either planned to revise the structure to cap the work at
twenty-four tales, or else left it incomplete when he died on October 25, 1400.
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