MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)
BRITISH POETRY
ASSIGNMENT
(Based on Blocks (1 - 10)
Course Code: MEG-01 Assignment Code: MEG-01/TMA/2022-23 Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions.
1. Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context:
(i) But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, Ore laid with black staid wisdoms hue.
Ans. These lines are taken from John Milton's "Il Penseroso". It is a lyric poem that emphasises sorrow as a catalyst for thoughtful reflection and creative creativity. The speaker of the poem imagines himself travelling to the destinations that he thinks Melancholy, whom he refers to as a goddess, will take him.
The word "the pensive man" in the title is Italian. The poem was included in a collection called The Poems of John Milton, Both English and Latin, which was published in London in 1645. This work is meant to go along with "L'Allegro," a lyric poetry that seeks happiness rather than melancholy. The rhyme and metric structures in the poems are similar.
In this stanza, he requests Melancholy's permission to move through the dimly lit outside corridors of the seclusion monastery. He would "dissolve into ecstasies" and have visions of heaven while an organ played and a choir sang.As the bee hums and the rivers murmur, melancholy would lead the speaker to "arched walkways of twilight forests" and conceal him near a creek from the sun's rays. He would imagine a strange dream there. He would hear the entrancing song of a spirit when he woke up.
The speaker imagines that if the imagined goddess of melancholy he summons were his Muse, creative inspiration would occur. Any synopsis of the dramatic action in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso is impossible due to Milton's very digressive style, which also makes the poems difficult for commentators to comprehend. But it is undeniable that the speaker of Il Penseroso presents a picture of poetic inspiration that is an allegorical investigation of a contemplative paradigm of poetic genre.
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Ans. These lines are taken from John Milton's "Il Penseroso". It is a lyric poem that emphasises sorrow as a catalyst for thoughtful reflection and creative creativity. The speaker of the poem imagines himself travelling to the destinations that he thinks Melancholy, whom he refers to as a goddess, will take him.
The word "the pensive man" in the title is Italian. The poem was included in a collection called The Poems of John Milton, Both English and Latin, which was published in London in 1645. This work is meant to go along with "L'Allegro," a lyric poetry that seeks happiness rather than melancholy. The rhyme and metric structures in the poems are similar.
In this stanza, he requests Melancholy's permission to move through the dimly lit outside corridors of the seclusion monastery. He would "dissolve into ecstasies" and have visions of heaven while an organ played and a choir sang.As the bee hums and the rivers murmur, melancholy would lead the speaker to "arched walkways of twilight forests" and conceal him near a creek from the sun's rays. He would imagine a strange dream there. He would hear the entrancing song of a spirit when he woke up.
The speaker imagines that if the imagined goddess of melancholy he summons were his Muse, creative inspiration would occur. Any synopsis of the dramatic action in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso is impossible due to Milton's very digressive style, which also makes the poems difficult for commentators to comprehend. But it is undeniable that the speaker of Il Penseroso presents a picture of poetic inspiration that is an allegorical investigation of a contemplative paradigm of poetic genre.
(For the full set of answers of 1st and 2nd year MEG assignments/study notes call or WhatsApp me : +91 99 471 471 85)
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