ictorian Poetry for Honours 3rd Year Exam Suggestion 2024

National University Suggestion of Victorian Poetry for Honours 3rd Year Exam 2024

PART – C
Alfred Lord Tennyson
*** Find out the Pictorial Qualities in Tennyson’s poetry.
*** How does Tennyson handle myth and legend in his poetry?
Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of Victorian age/Victorian elements in his poems
Write a critical appreciation of the poem The Lotos Eaters.
Robert Browning
*** Discuss Browning’s Philosophy of life.
Discuss Browning’s attitude to art and life.
Discuss the Renaissance elements in Browning’s poems.
*** What is Dramatic Monologue? Discuss Robert Browning’s poems are dramatic monologues.
Mathew Arnold
*** Comment on Arnold’s personal/sad elements/elegiac notes in his poems.
*** How does Arnold treat nature in his poems?
Discuss Arnold’s poetry as a criticism of life.
Discuss Thyrsis as an elegy.
*** Write the critical appreciation of the poem Dover Beach.
G M Hopkins
*** Discuss critically Felix Randal as a sonnet.
*** Pied Beauty is a religious poem- discuss
*** Discuss the symbols found in Hopkins’ poems.
Discuss Hopkins’ appreciation/treatment of nature
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PART-B
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Locksley Hall

Why did the speaker of the poem Locksley Hall fail to marry his beloved
What is the glass of Time?
How does Tennyson denounce the materialism of his age in Locksley Hall?
How does Tennyson satirize the Victorian age in Lockley Hall?
What is Tennyson’s opinion about knowledge and wisdom?
What optimistic belief of Tennyson do you find in the poem Locksley Hall?

The Lotos Eaters
Why does it seem always afternoon in the land of the Lotos Eaters?
How does the poet portray the changing moods of the sailors in The Lotos Eaters?
What is the effect of the Lotos on the sailors?
How do the mariners contrast their toilsome life with the processes of Nature?

Oenone
Why is Oenone in a sad mood?
Can Oenone be termed as dramatic monologue?
What is the moral of the poem Oenone?
Why did Peris accept the offer of Aphrodite?
What symbolism does the poem Oenone bear in general?
What is the fault of Oenone?
Is Oenone an innocent victim of fate?
What is Tennyson’s analysis about life of his time described in Oenone?

Tithonus
What is dramatic monologue?
How does Tithonus fall into the genre of dramatic monologue?
What is the effect of the poet addressing Aurora, who does not speak?
What are the speaker’s melancholic reflections on change leading to despair?
Do you think that the poem Tithonus is a realization of a long and meaningless future after Hallam’s death?

ROBERT BROWNING
Andrea del Sarto
How did Andrea embezzle the money of the King of France?
Describe the character of Lucrezia.
Describe the beauty of Lucrezia.
How does Andrea blame his wife, Lucrezia?
How is Andrea’s art different from that of Raphel?
Describe Andrea as a faultless painter.
Why does Andrea consider himself a failure as an artist?
How does Browning deal with art and artist’s life in Andrea del Sarto?
How does Andrea criticize the contemporary style of Renaissance art?
Andrea del Sarto is a poem of marital tragedy- describe.
What philosophy of life do you find in Andrea del Sarto?

Fra Lippo Lippi
Describe the central theme of Fra Lippo Lippi.
What kind of paintings had Fra Lippo Lippi’s monastic superiors wished him to paint?
Describe Browning’s attacks on idealized art in Fra Lippo Lippi.
Describe Browning’s use of irony in Fra Lippo Lippi.
How does Browning treat love in Fra Lippo Lippi?
Does the author seem to believe that the moral qualities of an artist’s life and work are related?
Write about Fra Lippo Lippi’s early life.

The Last Ride Together
How does the lover rationalize his rejection by his ladylove?
Why does the lover claims that his achievement is greater than that of a poet?
Why does the lover consider himself superior to the sculptor?
Comment on the ending of the poem The Last Ride Together.
Comment on the tile of the poem The Last Ride Together.

My Last Duchess
Trace the elements of aristocratic life in My Last Duchess.
What Victorian quality do you find in My Last Duchess?
Describe women’s role and identity in Browning’s My Last Duchess.
Point out the Victorian make dominion over the Victorian women as you find in My Last Duchess.
Describe Browning’s attitude to art and artists as expressed in My Last Duchess.
How is the duke presented in My Last Duchess?

MATHEW ARNOLD
The Scholar Gipsy
What is pastoral elegy?
Discuss The Scholar Gipsy as a pastoral elegy.
Write a note on Modern people in Arnold’s The Scholar Gipsy.
How does Arnold present a contrast between the life of the Scholar Gipsy and modern man?
Describe Arnold’s theory of poetry as criticism of life.
Discuss Arnold’s criticism of life in The Scholar Gipsy.
Describe the legend of ‘The Scholar Gipsy’.

Dover Beach
What sensory image do you find in Dover Beach?
Write a short note on Sophocles.
Why does Arnold refer to Sophocles?
Describe the image of the sea in Dover Beach.

Thyrsis
Describe the importance of the elm-tree in the lives of Arnold and his friend.
Comment on the ending of the poem Thyrsis.
What is Arnold’s view about Truth?

G M HOPKINS
Write a summary of the poem Pied Beauty.
Write a summary of the poem The Windhover.
The poem Spring and Fall is more about spirituality than nature- discuss.
Write a note on the shadow of grief in the poem Spring and Fall.
What kind of joy did Hopkins feel when he prayed for the blacksmith?
What is the significance of the title Spring and Fall?
How can the bird be the mirror of Christ?
What biblical reference is made in the poem Spring and Fall?
Why was Hopkins grateful to God for His creations of dappled things?
How does the poem Felix Randal a priestly meditation on a parishioner’s death?
Why was Margaret shocked in Spring and Fall?
How is the poem a rule of God all through?
What is a Curtal sonnet?