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IGNOU BEGC-109 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Explain the basic difference between the Neoclassical and Romantic theories of poetry.
2. Define ‘Romantic Literature’ explaining the origin of the term ‘Romantic’, giving various definitions, and elucidating salient features of romanticism.
3. Comment on Blake’s portrayal of children and childhood in his Songs of Innocence and Experience.
4. Explain Coleridge’s ideas on ‘Fancy’ and ‘Imagination’.
5. Romantic poetry is replete with mystery, aura and quaintness of phenomena.How is ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’ a masterpiece of romantic poetry in this sense?
6. What are the romantic tendencies of Collins that won the appreciation of S.T. Coleridge?
7. Critically interpret the poem “Ode to the West Wind”.
8. Describe Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a gothic novel.
9. Give an account of the sufferings that the mariner undergoes at various stages in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
10. Discuss the connection between the life sketch of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein.
IGNOU BEGC-109 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Define ‘Romantic Literature’ explaining the origin of the term ‘Romantic’, giving various definitions, and elucidating salient features of romanticism.
2. Explain in detail the formal features of folk poetry.
3. What is the relationship between innocence and experience as Blake sees it?
4. What is the difference between the language of poetry and the language of prose in Wordsworth’s view? Is it valid?
5. What is the justification for calling Keats the “Poet’s Poet”? Give a reasoned answer.
6. Give an account of the punishment suffered by the Mariner. Attempt to show the various stages and the different kinds of suffering he undergoes.
7. Write a note on Lamb’s characteristic humour and pathos with reference to the essay you studied?
8. What in the short run was the aim of The Vision of Judgement? Elucidate it.
9. Discuss the development of thought in ‘Ode to Nightingale”.
10. What major aspects can be attributed for Mary Shelley to become a great writer? Contextualize your answer with reference to the texts prescribed for you.