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
4. What attitude to Nature does Coleridge express in the Ode to Dejection? In what ways does this attitude differ from that of Wordsworth and from his own earlier attitude?
Ans:
A four-line passage from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence," initially published in Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Old English Poetry" in 1765, serves as the poem's opening line. The collection of poems by Percy had a significant impact on romantic poets of the nineteenth century. The speaker in Coleridge's lines claims to have witnessed the old Moon cradling the new Moon in her arms and is terrified. He worries that a devastating storm may come next. Nature exhibits these odd premonitions.
The significance of these sentences is that Coleridge desires that such a storm enter his life in order to awaken him from the current state of spiritual drowsiness. The poet finds sleep uncomfortable because.........
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Ans:
A four-line passage from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence," initially published in Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Old English Poetry" in 1765, serves as the poem's opening line. The collection of poems by Percy had a significant impact on romantic poets of the nineteenth century. The speaker in Coleridge's lines claims to have witnessed the old Moon cradling the new Moon in her arms and is terrified. He worries that a devastating storm may come next. Nature exhibits these odd premonitions.
The significance of these sentences is that Coleridge desires that such a storm enter his life in order to awaken him from the current state of spiritual drowsiness. The poet finds sleep uncomfortable because.........
(For the full set of answers of 1st and 2nd year MEG assignments/study notes WhatsApp me : +91 99 471 471 85)
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