AD's English Literature

Do you trace ‘Myth making faculty’ in Shelley and Keats?  Substantiate your answer. Ans. Myth making faculty means the poetic articulation, on something with utmost devotional zeal. Thus a common phenomena of life or nature Turn to be legend or mythical by the treatment of the poetic art. In Keats and Shelley such a quality is abundand. In Nightingale it is metamorphosed into a bird of spiritual and devide entity and takes a journey to get ‘permanent’. In ‘skylark’ too, the bird becomes a symbol of devine joy and bless and becomes a myth for Shellian creativity. How do you know that Shelley’s Skylark is true not a creature of ‘flesh and blood’? Ans. Through some concrete categorical hints from the poem we can easily form the ideal of the disembodied form of the bird skylark. It is a ‘spirit’ and ‘bird thou never west’. It is the spirited entity being the ‘cloud of fire’ with an ‘unbodied joy’.

Paper-II 2 J-3010 ENGLISH Paper – II Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.   ( ALL THE ANSWERS ARE COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE A LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS. WITHOUT SYLLOGISTIC FORMAT YOU NEED AN ELFIN TOWER TALL HEAD.) 1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to (A) Richardson ’s Pamela (B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (C) Fielding’s Tom Jones (D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ("Comic prose epics" is a type of epic derived from the serious epic that satirizes contemporary ideas or conditions in a form and style burlesquing the serious epic. It is also noted  as mock epics Exm: The Rape of the Lock (1712) by the English poet Alexander Pope. Several novels also fall into this category. Fielding himself refers to his two novels, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones , as "comic prose epics". In the preface Joseph Andrews , Fielding described his own...

UGC National Eligibility Test  English Syllabus 2023 Subject : English  UGC-NET IN OBJECTIVE MODE  The UGC-NET will be conducted in objective mode only with no negetive marks. The Test will consist of two papers. The two papers will consist of only objective type questions and will be held on the day of Examination in total duration of 3 hours in online mode. Mode: Online Time: 3 hours  Paper I ( general compulsory objective paper) Questions:  50 questions are to be attempted   Marks: 50x2 = 100 Paper – II  Note: It will cover 100 Objective Type Questions (Multiple choice, Matching type, True / False, Assertion – Reasoning type) carrying 200 marks. Questions:   100 questions all of which are compulsory Marks: 100x2 = 200 Questions Covers: Chaucer to Shakespeare Jacobean to Restoration Periods Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature Romantic Period Victorian Period Modern Period Contempo...

Hawk Roosting is an Animal Poem Depicting Violence and Brutality Hawk Roosting , included in the volume Lupercal is Ted Hughes ’ one of the best poems like View of A Pig , Wodwo , Crow etc. It is Ted Hughes’ many sided, vivid, startling, and yet truthful observation. The hawk while ‘resting’ a top the wood with closed eye expresses his happy state and satisfaction. He thinks of his prey with sense of pride and authority. We will now analyze the poem as an animal poem, study of violence, depiction of Nature and its simple structure under the following heads.             Hawk Roosting is a monologue of a hawk, a bird of prey, attacking smaller birds and eating them to feed himself. Hughes’s reputation as a poet of the world of animals to an extend relies on  Hawk Roosting which is a hawk’s eye view of the world. The egoistic hawk here asserts his point of argument  that trees, air, sun and earth are there only for h...

A Critique on R. J. Rees's English Literature: An Introduction for foreign students : chapter Epic   R. J. Rees in his English Literature: An Introduction for foreign students has passed the verdict that ‘the epic as a form of literature is now dead’. This orbiter dictum is quite justifiable considering the fact that no modern writer (barring the exception of James Joyce , whose Ulysses can justifiably claim epical stature) embarks upon this form today. This does not however, mean that great epics like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey or Virgil’s Aenied or Dante’s The Devina Commedia are no longer read with interest. But it must also be as certain that serious epics of the part have lost popular appeal among modern readers and that their interest today has been narrowed to the limited sphere of the academia.