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    UG/CBCS/B.A./Hons./3rd Sem.

    /English/ENGcC6/2022

    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL


    B.A. Honours 3rd Semester Examination, 2022

    CC6-ENGLISH
    BRITISH PoETRY AND DRaMA: 14 TO 17" CENTURIES
    Time Allotted: 2 Hours Full Marks: 60

    The figures in the margin indicate fiull marks.

    1. Answer any two of the following questions: 10x2 20

    (a) Analyse Shakespeare's use of imagery in the sonnets included in your syllabus.
    OR
    (b) Critically appreciate Shakespeare's Sonnet no. 137.

    (c) Assess "The Sunne Rising" as a metaphysical poem.


    OR
    (d) Analyse Donne as a love poet with reference to the poems on your syllabus.

    (e) Critically appreciate "One Day I Wrote Her Name."


    OR
    (1) Analyze Spenser's treatment of love with reference to any one poem on your
    syllabus.

    2. Answer any two of the following questions: 5x2 10


    (a) So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."- What is 'this' and how will it
    give life?
    (b) "Thy firmness makes my circle just"- Explain the metaphysical conceit in the
    quoted line.
    (c). where, alack, / Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid?" Explain
    with reference to the context.
    (d) How does the speaker in "Like as a Huntsman" finally catch his prey?
    (e) Briefly comment on the title of"The Good Morrow."
    () What is the speaker's linal request to the Sweet Warrior?

    3 Answer any two of the following questions: 10x2 20


    (a) Analyse the sleepwalking seene (Act V, scene i) in Shakespeare's Macbeth and
    bring out its dramatic signilicance
    OR
    (b) Critically examine Macbeth as a Shakespearean tragic hero.

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    (c) Critically analyse the role of Feste in Twelfth Night.


    OR
    (d) Consider Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy.

    Scene' (Act V, v) in Marlowe's


    (e) Bring out the significance of the 'Murder scene

    Edward I.
    OR
    (t) Examine Edward II as a tragic hero.

    5x2 10
    4. Answer any two of the following questions:

    (a) "Fair is foul, and foul is fair'-Explain with reference to the context.
    (6) "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Who says this and in what context?

    C) Here take my picture, and let me wear thine." Name the speaker and the personn
    spoken to. Comment on the relationship between the two.
    (d) "Macduff was from his mother's womb/ Untimely ripped." Who is the speaker?
    Bring out the significance of the lines.
    "Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife." Who is the speaker? What is the
    (e)
    significance of the quotation?
    (f "Whiles I have a sword, a hand, a heart, /I will not yield to any such upstart."
    Who says this in what context?

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