Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

5.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry

These lines are taken from "The Tyger", which is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. it is "the most anthologized poem in English".It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works, one of the great poems in the English language.

"The Tyger" is the sister poem to "The Lamb" (from "Songs of Innocence"), a reflection of similar ideas from a different perspective (Blake's concept of "contraries"), with "The Lamb" bringing attention to innocence. "The Tyger" presents a duality between aesthetic beauty and primal ferocity, and Blake believes that to see one, the hand that created "The Lamb", one must also see the other, the hand that created "The Tyger”: "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"The Tyger" lacks narrative movement. The first stanza opens the central question, "What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" ..........

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"All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey"

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

2.

          All humane things are subject to decay,

And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:

Ans :

These lines are taken from John Dryden’s verse mock-heroic satire, Mac Flecknoe. "Mac Flecknoe" is the outcome of a series of disagreements between Thomas Shadwell and Dryden. The poem illustrates Shadwell as the heir to a kingdom of poetic dullness, represented by his association with Richard Flecknoe, an earlier poet already satirized by Andrew Marvell and disliked by Dryden, although the poet does not use belittling techniques to satirize him.

Dryden begins with a lofty commentary on mortality, God, and kings, his introduction to what we can only assume will be a grandiose epic of Homeric proportions.............

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We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years.

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

2.

          We sat grown quiet at the name of love;
We saw the last embers of daylight die,And in the trembling blue-green of the skyA moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years.

These lines are taken from the poem ‘Adam’s Curse’ written by  William Butler Yeats. In the poem, Yeats describes the difficulty of creating something beautiful. The title alludes to the book of Genesis, evoking the fall of man and the separation of work and pleasure.

‘Adam’s Curse’ remains an important instance for a departure in Yeats's poetic career, an awareness of the actual world with its unpoetic responsibilities and political conflicts. It hovers between the earlier languorous idiom and rhythm and a new conversational, even witty tone disguising a sub-text of emotional yearning and disillusionment. Written in 1902, before the marriage of Maud Gonne to Major John MacBride, the whole poem is a controlled expression of Yeat’s futile love for her.

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Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

1. Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze,

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings

From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

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• Ans: These lines are taken from William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. The prelude is a long poem and its huge body has an epic form, lofty style and tone of moral seriousness. It is an autobiographical poem but only those episodes in poet’s life have been narrated which have something to do with his contact with nature and which cast a deep influence on him in as much as they shaped his mind and fostered its growth.
  
  

The ‘gentle breeze’, a ‘visitant’ coming from the ‘green fields’ and the ‘azure sky’, touches the cheek of the poet. It is more a spiritual touch than a physical one though the sense of physical comfort also conveyed.

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The major characters of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie reflect conflicting aspects of morality

MEG – 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

5. Would you agree that the major characters of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
reflect conflicting aspects of morality?

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.
The main characters in the novel are Jean Brodie, Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley and Mary Macgregor.

As her early novels seek to portray psychological and moral growth, Spark’s characters are interiorised.
This means that they are involved in a search for a self that accommodates both personal fulfilment
and political or social claims.
The characters are usually guided by personal obsessions that turn their lives into channels of
self-righteous imagination and bring about their destruction.

Miss Brodie is one such character. As an eccentric spinster and school teacher,
she has made a fine art out of private judgement of character and specialises in organising the lives of
the Brodie set according to her own insights.......

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‘New Literature in English’ as a possible advance on ‘Commonwealth Literature’

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

10. Analyse the term ‘New Literature in English’ as a possible advance on ‘Commonwealth Literature’

(i) It should be borne in mind that the non-British  authors whose works emerged from the cross-cultural
contact between the British colonisers  and the colonised natives have not always been  rightly appraised as it hap-
pened with the valuation of Toru Dutt's poetry by Edmund Gosse.
(ii)   According to Norman Jeffares:
It is quite understandable that:
(a) Literature should be judged according to cosmopolitan standards and not national standards.
(b) The literatures of different nationalities and regions:
—provide local colour, and also
—enrich the English language.

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The Stone Angel as an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

9. Do you think that The Stone Angel is an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel? Give reasons for your answer.

The Stone Angel – The Title

1. Laurence said in an interview with Michel Fabre (in 1981): “Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the  book in a rather poetic way.”

2. “Solid and, ethereal, opaque and spiritual, The StoneAngel confronts the reader with a challenge that is left all the move because  of the oxymoron  quality of the phrase,”  says Simone Vauthier in  her essay, “Image  in Stones, Images in Words.”

3. Says further Vauthier: “Announcing the new–the text to come–also resonates with the old: Thomas Wolfe’s lyrical novel,  Look Homeward Angel.  Hardly have  we had time  to puzzle  about it, however  when the  narration blocks our flight of imagination by presenting us with a fictional referent for the title. “Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand  ....” (p. 3)

4. (i) The Stone Angel is a marble statue “brought from Italy at great expense.”

(ii)  It is erected in the cemetery in memory of the narrator – protagonist's  mother.

(iii) This has its  effect on the narrator's  memory : “She viewed the  town with sightless  eyes.” (p. 3) This  is characteristic as much of Hagar as of the statue.

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Character sketches of both Waldo and Arthur and show how they are not ordinary twins, but also a device for dramatizing the antithetical self.

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

8. Attempt character sketches of both Waldo and Arthur and show how they are not ordinary twins, but also a device for dramatizing the antithetical self.

Waldo
1.
Main characteristics of his  character are:
(i)   tension
(ii)   rigidity
(iii)   stomach-trouble
(iv)   misanthropy
(v)   fastidious disgust
(vi)   dislikefor:
(a) love and
(b)  relationships

(vii)   desiring to be an artist, he finds such things a hindrance to his personal identity as such. 

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