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IGNOU MEG-18 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Trace the history of colonialism in America and its impact on American poetry.
2. Write short notes on:
a) American Spirot and Puritan Spirit
b) American poetry today
3. Walt Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself” is a social document engaging American national landscape – discuss.
4. How does the choice of words in the poem “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” help to illustrate the idea of ‘self’ of the poet?
5. Critically appreciate the poems, “ Home Burial” and “After apple Picking”.
6. Discuss Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko as important Native American poets
IGNOU MEG-18 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Enumerate on the Revolutionary War and Treaty of Paris and their impact on American poetry
2. Write short notes on:
a) American Spirit
b) Puritan Spirit
3. Philip Freneau’s poem, “The Wild Honey Suckle” is a political document engaging American national landscape – discuss.
4. How does the choice of words in the poem “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” help to illustrate the idea of drunkenness?
5. Critically appreciate Robert Lowell’s poem, “For the Union Dead”
6. Discuss the use of imageries by Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko in the poems given in your syllabus.
