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Monday, 18 March 2013

8. ............... is often described as chronologically Victorian and qualitatively a modern poet.

Answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins

G M Hopkins was born in 1844 and died in 1889.
Use of imagery and experimental exploration of poetic language make him distinct from other major Victorian poets.
Though Mathew Arnold is also considered as Modern by some critics because of the skeptical and lamenting tone of his poems, this is a shared quality of many Victorian writers.
As modernist writers are known for their experimental language use, new coinage of words like "inscape" "instress" and the use of images like 'winghover' qualifies Hopkins as a precursor of modernist poetry.
In "The Wreck of the Deutschland", Hopkins introduced Sprung Rhythm, which was odd in Victorian period. Later writers like W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Charles Wright turned to Hopkins use of innovative language.
His was poetry of the inner self which was a unique feature of modernist writings.

9. The subtitle of 'Andrea Del Sarto' is ____

Answer: The Faultless Painter

Andrea was a painter whose craft was technically perfect but he lost the inner/spiritual inspiration needed for artistic creations. This is a comment on Victorian society which lacked spiritual life but was materially progressive.
Other important subtitles:

Title/ Author of the work	Subtitle
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw	"A Romance in Five Acts."
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde	“ A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”

10. Charles Lamb's sister appears with the name ____in his essays.

Answer: Briget Elia

Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb co authored a book for children - Tales From Shakespeare.
In his essays 'Elia' is Lamb himself and 'Briget' is his sister Mary Lamb.

11. ____ is a poetic form perfected by Browning.

Answer: Dramatic Monologue.

My Last Duchess, Laboratory: An Ancient Regime are examples of dramatic monologue.
In a dramatic monologue, there is an omniscient speaker who begins his narration at a dramatic moment. There is a silent listener whose responses will be expressed by the speaker. Most often, monologues are exploration of the thoughts of the main character.
This equipped Browning to bring out the hidden interior thoughts of human mind.

12. "As flies to wanton boys are we to gods. They kill us for their sport." Whose words are these ?

Answer: Gloucester.

This lines are taken from Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth are other important tragedies by Shakespeare.

The epic poem Paradise Lost consisted of 10 books in the beginning and later got rearranged to 12 books.
It was first printed in 1667.
In Paradise Regained, Milton presented the restoration of man. It is plain and comprehensive.

2. Where do we read "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Answer: In Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
This elegy does not refer to anybody's death directly, but it laments the suppressed condition of the villagers.

3. Shakespeare wrote ............ sonnets.

Answer: 154
The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man, who is unknown.
Sonnets 127-152 has been addressed to a dark lady.
Shakespeare has also written two long narrative poem - Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594).

4. Lyrical Ballads was published in the year .......................

Answer: 1798
Wordsworth and Coleridge brought out the first collection of Romantic poetry ie, Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
There were 23 poems in the collection in which 4 poems were written by Coleridge. They are

      a) The Rime Ancient Mariner
      b) The Nightingale
      c) The Foster Mother's Tale
      d) The Dungeon

Later Wordsworth added a preface to the poetic collection in 1800
Some of Wordsworth's comments were criticized by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria.(1817)