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:
(ii) My love is now awake out of her dreams (s), and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.
Ans. These lines are taken from Edmund Spenser's " The Epithalamion". It is an ode written by Edmund Spenser to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594.In these lines the poet celebrates his love for his beloved, Elizabeth Boyle.
Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.
In this stanza, the poem adheres to the poetic convention and also the post time wedding celebrations. The poem can divided into five movements comprising the dramatic action. The poem describes its purpose, the method of accomplishment and the proper setting of the events. In it, the poet describes the beloved's beauty as she wakes up in morning, get adorned and then enters the temple or church for wedding.
Even after the clear visualisation of the beloved through these movements, the poet's conception is peculiarly external only. The beloved is celebrated both for physical and spiritual beauty, yet she is absent as a person of autonomy.
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Ans. These lines are taken from Edmund Spenser's " The Epithalamion". It is an ode written by Edmund Spenser to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594.In these lines the poet celebrates his love for his beloved, Elizabeth Boyle.
Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.
In this stanza, the poem adheres to the poetic convention and also the post time wedding celebrations. The poem can divided into five movements comprising the dramatic action. The poem describes its purpose, the method of accomplishment and the proper setting of the events. In it, the poet describes the beloved's beauty as she wakes up in morning, get adorned and then enters the temple or church for wedding.
Even after the clear visualisation of the beloved through these movements, the poet's conception is peculiarly external only. The beloved is celebrated both for physical and spiritual beauty, yet she is absent as a person of autonomy.
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