Aspire College Hafizabad

Second Half Examination (2020)

Date: ___/____/____
Total Marks: 50 Time: 02:00 Hrs.
Program: BS English (1st Semester) Subject: Classical Poetry
Name: __________________ Roll No.
Objective Type
Q.1: Multiple Choice Questions: Identify the letter of choice that best
completes the statements. (10)
i. With whom the speaker in the Sun rising compares himself and his
beloved?
a) Rivers and streams b) earth and the sky
c) States and princes d) birds
ii. Whom the poet addresses in A valediction: forbidding Mourning?
a) Aphrodite b) Psyche c) the Muse d)his wife
iii. In the poem, A Valediction: forbidding Mourning, the poet comes to the
conclusion that true love requires:
a) Sorrow and frustration b) lamenting and sighing
c) Trust and Faith d) Mutual confidence and affection
iv. Donne’s Death, Be Not Proud is what type of poem?
a) sonnet b) epic c) heroic couplet d)ballad
v. Donne married Anne more, under what circumstances?
a) secrecy b) force c) elopement d) he didn’t marry
vi. As well as poet, Donne was____________:
a) A Cartographer b) Professor at university of Edinburgh
c) An Anglican priest d) a stone mason
vii. Which Donne’s poem contains these lines: “If ever any beauty I did see, /
Which I desired, and got, ‘twas but a dream of thee.”
a) The sun rising b) The Flea
c) The Canonization d)The Good Morrow
viii. Whom the poet addresses in A valediction: forbidding Mourning?
b) Aphrodite b) Psyche c) the Muse d)his wife
ix. In the poem, A Valediction: forbidding Mourning, the poet comes to the
conclusion that true love requires:
b) Sorrow and frustration b) lamenting and sighing
c) Trust and Faith d) Mutual confidence and affection
x. Donne’s Death, Be Not Proud is what type of poem?
a) sonnet b) epic c) heroic couplet d)ballad
 Subjective Type
Q.2: Precisely describe in what sense Donne a “meta physical” poet? (8)
Discuss with illustrations.
Q.3: Write a comprehensive note on the use of “conceits” in Donne’s poetry. (8)
Q.4: Discuss Chaucer’s realism in the Canterbury Tales. (8)
Q.5: Write a note on Spencer as a court poet. (8)
Q.6: Discuss Spencer as a representative of his age. (8)

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