Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol

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UG 5th Semester Examination 2022

Award: B. A. Honours
Discipline: ENGLISH
Course Type: CC-5 (Hons)
Course Code: BAHENGC301
Course Name: BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

The figures in the right-hand margin indicate full marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in
their own words as far as practicable. Illustrate the answers wherever necessary.
Unit I

1. Answer any one of the following questions: 10x1=10

a) Explain how the ideals of the French Revolution influence the poetry of P.B. Shelley.
b) How would you consider Romanticism as a revolt against Neo-classicism?
c) Write a note on the use of supernatural by the Romantic poets with special reference to
any two of them.

Unit II

2. Answer any five of the following questions: 02x05=10

a) What similarities does Blake find between the lamb and its creator?
b) What, according to Wordsworth, are the dwellings of the sublime sense?
c) How does Coleridge describe the physical appearance of the bright damsel in
Christabel?
d) Why does Shelley consider the west wind both a destroyer and a preserver?
e) How does Shelley wish to feel the strength and vigour of the west wind?
f) Write a very short note on Lethe.
g) Why does Keats consider the world of the nightingale far more superior to that of his
own?
h) Explain the simile that Byron uses in the opening stanza of She Walks in Beauty.

3. Explain any one of the following: 05x1=05

a) O, for a draught of vintage! That hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep delved earth,
Tasting of flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth.

b) Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind,
If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Unit III

4. Answer any five of the following questions: 01x05=05

a) What is the source of the title of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice?
b) Name the characters who most represent the titular qualities in Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice?
c) Name the Bennet sisters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
d) What is the name of Mr Darcy’s country estate?
e) What is the source of Charles Lamb’s Dream Children: A Reverie?
f) Whom does the children of Alice call father?
g) Why does Thomas De Quincey compare Shakespeare’s works to the phenomena of
nature in his critical essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth?
h) What is the word that De Quincey explains in the footnote of his essay?

5. Answer any two of the following questions: 05x02=10

a) “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”—Explain the significance of
the statement.
b) What is the story of the ballad carved out in wood in the house of Charles Lamb’s
grandmother?
c) What effect did the knocking at the gate in Macbeth have on De Quincey?