Old Exam Papers June 2012 (Set 2)

(b) In her hands she hold the oil lamp
Whose drunken yellow flames
Know where her lonely body hides.
(c) Life is real ! Life is earnest !
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest",
Was not spoken of the soul.
(d) When I heard the earth song
I was no longer brave
My avarice cooled
Like host in the chill of the grave.
(e) We returned to our places, these kingdoms
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensations,
With an alien people clutching their gods,
I should be glad of another death.
(f) O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
Sailing these seas or on the hills,
or waking in the night,
Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and
Space and Death, like
Waters flowing.
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2. (a) Which figure of speech have been used in the
following lines :
(i) Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing.
(ii) The lotus blooms below the barren peak.
(iii) And quench its speed in the slushy sand.
(iv) For the loftiest hill who to the star uncrown
his majesty.
(v) Far off like floating seeds the ships.
(b) Attempt any one of the following :
(i) What is a dramatic monologue ?
(ii) Define 'Ode'.
(iii) State the difference between lyric and epic. 5
Section-B
3. Discuss the development of thought in 'Ode to
Nightingale'. 12
4. Give a description of the Ancient Mariner. What effect
does he have on the wedding guest ? 12
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