MJC 6 Model Question Paper Set V Bankura University English Hons | British Romantic Literature

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Bankura University English Hons MJC 6 Model Question Paper Set V | British Romantic Literature

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 V

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. Discuss how Samuel Taylor Coleridge explores the psychological boundaries of human vulnerability and manipulation in his narrative poem 'Christabel'.
  2. Analyze the cyclical paradigm of destruction, preservation, and historical prophecy in Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'.
2. Answer any one of the following questions: (1 × 10 = 10)
  1. Examine Charles Lamb's skill in navigating individual melancholy, bereavement, and structural isolation within the framework of 'Dream Children: A Reverie'.
  2. Evaluate how Thomas Love Peacock employs caricature and farce to challenge the idealization of melancholy in early nineteenth-century fiction in Nightmare Abbey.
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: (2 × 5 = 10)
  1. The dynamic interplay of memory and creative vision in Romantic poetic theory.
  2. The structural evolution of the historical romance novel from regional narratives.
  3. Wordsworth's conceptualization of the "poet" as an individual speaking to ordinary humanity.
  4. The representation of marriage, economic transactions, and female agency in the early nineteenth-century novel.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: (5 × 2 = 10)
  1. What specific item does the speaker mention cleaning to illustrate the child's daily struggle in Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper' (Innocence)?
  2. What explicit transition does the speaker note regarding the shifting appearance of meadows and streams in the opening stanza of Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode'?
  3. What specific behavioral alteration does Sir Leoline manifest immediately after hearing the lineage details from Geraldine in 'Christabel'?
  4. Identify the nature of the landscape elements visible to Bonnivard through the narrow opening of the dungeon wall in 'The Prisoner of Chillon'.
  5. What specific geographical landmark is mentioned as waking from summer dreams in Stanza III of Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'?
  6. Explain the dynamic function of the "pure ablution" metaphor introduced by the speaker in John Keats's 'Bright Star'.
  7. What explicit emotional state is attributed to the "cloyed" nature of human passion compared to artistic depictions in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?
  8. Identify the specific physical landscape feature surrounding Nightmare Abbey that isolates it from nearby settlements.
  9. What precise physical movement do the dream-children make to register their ultimate silent dissent regarding their own existence?
  10. What structural alternative does Bridget suggest they would have abandoned had they possessed their present wealth in Lamb's 'Old China'?

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