BEGE-106

                                   Understanding Poetry

                                   Assignment 2019-2020

                                   (Based on Blocks 1-8)

                                                                                            Course Code: BEGE-106/2019-20

                                                                                                                         Max. Marks: 100

Attempt all questions.

1  Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘To Coy His Mistress’. 20

2. Critically analyze the poem ‘A Hot Noon in Malabar’. 20

3. Discuss the title of the poem ‘A Rain of Rites’. 20

4. Discuss the central theme of the poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’. 20

5. Explain with reference to the context the following lines: 10 x 2=20

a) Must come and bide. And such are we ― Unreasoning, sanguine, visionary ― That I can hope Health, love friends, scope In full for thee; can dream thou’lt find Joys seldom yet attained by humankind!

b) All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when the night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams and heaven is overflowed