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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 III

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. Evaluate Lord Byron's 'On the Castle of Chillon' (The Prisoner of Chillon) as a poignant exposition of political martyrdom and individual liberty.
  2. Examine Percy Bysshe Shelley's transformation of natural phenomenon into a radical socio-political manifesto in 'Ode to the West Wind'.
2. Answer any one of the following questions: (1 × 10 = 10)
  1. Discuss the narrative persona of 'Elia' in Charles Lamb's essay 'Dream Children: A Reverie', balancing the element of autobiography with artistic distance.
  2. Analyze the complex romantic matrix surrounding Scythrop Glowry in Peacock's Nightmare Abbey as a comic reflection of the idealist's dilemma.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: (2 × 5 = 10)
  1. The contribution of Sir Walter Scott to the growth of historical fiction.
  2. Elements of social realism vs. domestic setting in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
  3. The stylistic evolution of the 'Familiar Essay' during the early nineteenth century.
  4. The tension between Reason and Imagination in the conceptualization of Romanticism.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: (5 × 2 = 10)
  1. What makes the little sweep weep in Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper' (Songs of Experience) while his parents are up at the church?
  2. What symbolic transformation does the poet note regarding the "meanest flower that blows" in Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode'?
  3. What specific physical description is assigned to Bracy the Bard's dream-vision of the dove and the snake in 'Christabel'?
  4. Why did the narrator's younger brother waste away and die in Byron's prison cells at Chillon?
  5. What are the "locks of the approaching storm" compared to in stanza II of Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'?
  6. What is the alternative fate postulated by the speaker if he cannot permanently rest "pillowed upon his fair love's ripening breast" in Keats's 'Bright Star'?
  7. What specific artistic scene on the Grecian Urn provokes the line, "What little town by river or sea shore... is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?"
  8. Which real-world English intellectual figure is targeted through the satirical construction of Mr. Cypress in Nightmare Abbey?
  9. How is the character and physical decline of brother John L. recalled by the narrator in Lamb's 'Dream Children'?
  10. What explicit material item did Bridget regret purchasing under the weight of financial ease in Lamb's 'Old China'?

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