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Suggestion of Modern Poetry

Suggestion of Modern Poetry: MA-2022

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Part – C

Walt Whitman

  1. *** Trace mystical elements in ‘Song of Myself.
  2. *** Consider Whitman’s treatment of soul, self and body.
  3. *** Consider Whitman as a poet of joy and optimism.
  4. Comment on Whitman’s poetic techniques with reference to Song of Myself.

W B Yeats

  1. *** Show W.B. Yeats as a patriotic poet.
  2. *** Analyze the symbols used by W.B. Yeats in his poems.
  3. *** Discuss Yeats as a poet of love with reference to some of his poems.
  4. *** How does WB Yeats handle myth and history in his poems?
  5. Can you call W.B. Yeats an Irish national poet? Elaborate your answer.
  6. Consider the poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” as an elegy.
  7. What romantic elements do you find in the poems of W.B. Yeats?

Robert Frost

  1. *** Examine Frost’s treatment of Nature. /relationship between man and nature.
  2. *** Frost depicts modern life in pastoral setting. Discuss.
  3. Discuss the relationship between man and woman Robert Frost’s poems.

W H Auden

  1. *** Consider Auden as an anti-romantic poet.
  2. *** Consider Auden as a modern poet.
  3. Discuss Auden’s use of mythology in his poems.
  4. What social consciousness do you find in Auden’s poems?

Dylan Thomas

  1. *** Make an assessment of Dylan Thomas’s use of poetic imagery.
  2. *** Discuss the theme of nostalgia in the poems of Dylan Thomas.
  3. *** Discuss the symbols used in the poems of Dylan Thomas.

Seamus Heaney

  1. *** Discuss the major themes in Seamus Heaney’s poems.
  2. *** How has Heaney expressed his concern about the voice of the silent and oppressed?
  3. Write an essay on Seamus Heaney’s treatment of nature.
  4. How does Heaney’s poetry combine pictures of ancient Ireland with those of modern times?

Part – B

Walt Whitman

  1. Discuss the significance of Grass as you find in Song of Myself.
  2. What is Whitman’s idea of God as expressed in Song of Myself?
  3. In what sense is Whitman’s concept of democracy spiritual and pantheistic?
  4. How does the poet’s self-embrace all mankind?
  5. How does Whitman give a pen-picture of the active life of the Americans?
  6. Why does the poet celebrate his own self in the poem Song of Myself?
  7. Do you think Whitman is a poet of revolutionary spirit?
  8. Does Whitman glorify the lady in Song of Myself?
  9. How does Whitman give equal importance to both body and soul in Song of Myself?
  10. Comment on Whitman’s treatment of soul, self, and body.
  11. Show Whitman as a poet of joy and optimism.

W B Yeats

  1. How does W B Yeats express his love for Maud Gonne in the poem When You Are Old?
  2. How does Yeats rage against old age in the poem The Tower?
  3. What is the significance of the title Adam’s Curse?
  4. What is the significance of the title of the poem No Second Troy?
  5. How does the poet describe the older generation in The Magi?
  6. How is the poem A Coat symbolic?
  7. How is the theme of the poem Leda and the Swan taken from mythology?
  8. What is Lapis Lazuli? How does the poet use Lapis Lazuli as the title of the poem?
  9. How does W B Yeats use myth in the poem September 1913?
  10. How does Yeats create a mixture of history, myth, and vision in the poem Leda and the Swan?
  11. What are the prayers of the poet for his infant daughter?
  12. How does Yeats estimate Maud Gonne in No Second Troy?
  13. What does Byzantium stand for in W B Yeats’ poems?

Robert Frost

  1. What is the symbolic significance of The Oven Bird?
  2. How does Frost express his patriotic feelings as an American in the poem The Gift Outright?
  3. What does Frost criticize in the poem Out Out?
  4. How Frost draws a symbolical modern life in the poem Come In?
  5. How does Frost use symbolism in the poem Fire and Ice?
  6. How does Frost criticise departmentalization of modern society?
  7. Why is the poem The Gift Outright patriotic?
  8. What pastoral elements do you find in the poems of Robert Frost?
  9. How are fact and fancy blended in Frost’s poetry?
  10. How does Mary define Home in The Death of the Hired Man?
  11. Discuss the conflict between husband and wife in Home Burial

W H Auden

  1. Write a short note on human concern in Auden’s poetry.
  2. What is the central message in Auden’s poetry?
  3. Describe the pictures drawn upon the new shield in the poem The Shield of Achilles.
  4. What are the symbols that Auden used in his poem The Shield of Achilles?
  5. How does the poet depict the island in the poem In This Island?
  6. What is the background of the poem Spain 1937?
  7. How does the poem In Memory of W B Yeats different from the traditional elegy? / an unconventional elegy.
  8. Do you think Auden is anti-romantic poet?
  9. How does Auden express anti-romantic view of love?
  10. What is Auden’s attitude to religion?

Dylan Thomas

  1. What is your idea of hungry Life-Force in the poem The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower?
  2. How does the poet glorify the death of a child in the poem A Refusal to Mourn the death, etc?
  3. What poetic manifesto does Dylan Thomas present through his poem In MY Craft of Sullen Art?
  4. Briefly write about the childhood memories in the poems of Dylan Thomas.
  5. What is villanelle? How is Do not go gentle into that good night a villanelle?
  6. How is the poem There was a Saviour a religious poem?
  7. Write briefly about the life of Hunchback.
  8. How does Dylan Thomas celebrate life over death in this poetry?
  9. How does Dylan Thomas pay respect to his aunt in After the Funeral?

Seamus Heaney

  1. How does Seamus Heaney show a transition from the state of innocence to that of experience in the poem Death of a Naturalist?
  2. Trace father son relationship in Seamus’ poem Follower.
  3. How are various types of imagery used in the poem Digging?
  4. How are images used in The Froge by Seamus Heaney?
  5. How is the title Punishment ironical?
  6. Describe the funeral of Scyld as depicted in A Ship of Death?
  7. How is marriage and love reflected in The Skunk?
  8. How has Seamus shown the transience of joy and beauty in Blackberry-Picking?
  9. What is Heney’s attitude to his forefathers as depicted in the poem Digging?
  10. How is the poem Punishment as satire against various injustices?