IGNOU BEGE-106
- Understanding Poetry,
Latest Solved Assignment
(July 2023 - January 2024)

1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘To A SKYLARK’.

2. Comment on the theme of the poem ‘Intimations of Immortality’.

3. ‘Kubla Khan’ illustrates vividly what Coleridge meant when he called imagination a synthetic and magical power, a power which ‘instantly fuses chattered fragments of memory to produce a great poem Elaborate.

4. Attempt a critical appreciation of ‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ by Thomas Gray.

5. Explain with reference to the context the following lines:

1. We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

2. The young light-hearted masters of the waves
And snatch’d his rudder, and shook out more sail;
And day and night held on indignantly
O’er the blue Midland waters with the gale,
Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,
To where the Atlantic raves
Outside the western straits; and unbent sails
There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,
Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;
And on the beach undid his corded bales.

1. Write brief notes on the following:
a) Blank verse
b) Lyric
c) Assonance
d) Symbol

2. Critically appreciate the poem ‘To a Skylark.’

3. Comment on the use of irony by Indian English poets

4. Critically appreciate the poem ‘The Sunne Rising.’

5. Discuss the salient features on of mock-heroic poetry and illustrate your points with examples from The Rape of the Lock.