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BANKURA UNIVERSITY

B.A. 4th Semester (Major) Examination, 2026

ENGLISH

Course Code: A/ENG-402/MJC-6 | Course ID: 40312

British Romantic Literature

(NEP) — MODEL SET II

Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Answer all the questions.
1. Answer any one of the following questions: (1 × 10 = 10)
  1. Examine the structural shift and the philosophical theme of spiritual compensation in William Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'.
  2. Trace the tension between transient human mortality and the permanence of art as represented in John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.
2. Answer any one of the following questions: (1 × 10 = 10)
  1. Analyze how Thomas Love Peacock satirizes specific contemporary Romantic figures and transcendental philosophies through characters like Mr. Flosky and Mr. Cypress in Nightmare Abbey.
  2. "Charles Lamb's 'Old China' is a profound meditation on the psychological ironies of moving from poverty to financial comfort." Discuss with reference to Bridget's arguments.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: (2 × 5 = 10)
  1. The distinction between First and Second Generation Romantic Poets.
  2. The impact of the French Revolution on British Romantic writers.
  3. Salient features of the Gothic Novel genre.
  4. Wordsworth's definition of poetry and poetic diction in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: (5 × 2 = 10)
  1. Who are "God & his Priest & King" in William Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper' from Songs of Experience?
  2. Explain the philosophical assertion: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" from the 'Immortality Ode'.
  3. Why must Geraldine be bodily lifted over the threshold of Sir Leoline's castle hall in 'Christabel'?
  4. What omen does the old mastiff bitch display as Geraldine passes her in Part I of 'Christabel'?
  5. Where is Liberty's "brightest temple" located according to Lord Byron's introductory sonnet to 'On the Castle of Chillon'?
  6. What explicit prayer does the speaker make to the wind in the fifth stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'?
  7. What does the term "Eremite" mean, and how is it used contextually in John Keats's sonnet 'Bright Star'?
  8. What is Scythrop Glowry's primary intellectual passion or project in Peacock's Nightmare Abbey?
  9. Who was Grandmother Field in Lamb's 'Dream Children: A Reverie', and where did she reside?
  10. What special domestic luxury did Elia and Bridget purchase in their leaner days that required immense planning in 'Old China'?

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