A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers
a. Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’ is perhaps his
most sustained attempt to unite the actual and symbolic under one continuous
narrative roof.
c. Pride andPrejudice: “Here is a limited world; but she interprets it with the
penetrating insight of the creative artist”.
d. Stock says of ‘The Second Coming’ that in this
poem Yeats sets his own age in the perspective of eternity and condenses a
whole philosophy of history into it so that it has the force of Prophecy’.
e. Swift is a misanthrope in his ‘Gulliver’S Travels’.
Swifts’ Gulliver’s Travel is a ‘mock utopia’. Gulliver’s Travels
as an entertaining political story, but it became very popular as a tale for
young people. It also expresses despair or that its import is nihilistic, is
radically to misread the book.
f. In ' 'Tess', Hardy has rebelled against tradional and
orthodox views'. Hardy is here neither a feminist, nor a misogynist, but a
realist.
g. Lawrence very
closely describes the working life of the labourers in “Sons and Lovers”. In D. H. Lawrence’s work men and women of our times have
found their own restlessness most accurately mirrored.
h. In spite of diverse material and frequent digressions,
Byron’s Don Juan does have a strong principle of thematic unity
exemplified by the recurring motif of appearance versus reality. It is a
success because it is a satirical panorama of the ruling classes of his time.
i. Vijay
Tendulkar is known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chaule Ahe , Ghāshirām Kotwāl , and Sakhārām Binder . He has received
awards including the Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Filmfare
Award, Saraswati Samman, Kalidas Samman and Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar.
j. Legouis says “Wordsworth saw Nature and Man with new
eyes”.
k. The 19th century Romantic Movement has been variously
interpreted as ‘the convalescence of the feeling of beauty’, ‘renaissance of
wonder’, ‘split religion’ and ‘erotic nostalgia’.
L .‘Art for God's sake ‘ phrase best
characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the
breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism.
m. The early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud is
associated with enormously influential perspective or practice psychoanalysis.
He had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to
reimagine human identity in radically new ways.
n. Robert Browning’s interest in psychological analysis of
characters from different countries. Browning had a “robust optimism” unlike
the other Victorian poets who were worriers and doubters.
o. Keats was a romantic poet who believed in the importance
of sensation and its pleasures which included taste, touch and smell as well as
hearing and sight.
p. Keats
had himself dictated the epitaph he wanted carved on his headstone: “Here lies
one whose name was writ in water.”
q. THE
LITTLE MAN by JOHN GALSWORTHY has a subtitle A FARCICAL MORALITY IN THREE
SCENES
r. Pope’s
Essay on Man EPISTLE I: bears the title Of the Nature and
State of Man, With
Respect to the Universe
s. Imagery
or figurative language helps us to form a picture of what the author is
trying to present.
t. John Dryden’s late seventeenth century mock-epic satire, Mac
Flecknoe has a stage
like setting in the city.
u. Shelley’s weaknesses as a writer have always been
evident; rhetorical abstraction; intellectual arrogance; and movements of
intense self-pity. But in great poems like the "West Wind" or great
prose works like "Defence", it is precisely these limitations that he
transcends, and indeed explodes.
v. Mathew Arnold describes Shelley “a beautiful and
ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”.
w. “In Hamlet we see a great, an almost enormous
intellectual activity and a proportionate aversion to real action consequent
upon it.” Coleridge.
x. Lamb seldom permitted his profounder views of life to
appear above the humorous, pathetic and ironical surface of his writings. Above
all Charles Lamb was a refined humanist whose smile could be both satirist and tender.’
Lambs’ essays are lyric poems in prose.’
y. ‘The Waste
Land’ is both a
public or private poem. T. S. Eliot claims universally for his (The Wasteland).
z. In Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot the pattern
for waiting is an ingenious combination of expectations and let downs, of
uncertainty and of gradual run down without end.
Ref: Wikipedia, Literary Timelines, History of English Literature- Albert
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