Question: Discuss Tennyson’s treatment of old legends in his poetry. Answer: A legend is a story or group of stories about the heroic or miraculous deeds of a man. Such deeds display the superhuman powers of that person. For his ...
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Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age
Question: Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age. Or, Show how Tennyson’s poetry deals with the social and religious problems of his age. Answer: Tennyson lived in an age in which a change was taking place in every ...
Discuss the theme of James Joyce’s short story “Araby”
Question: Discuss the theme of James Joyce’s short story “Araby”. Or, Comment on the theme of quest for ideal beauty in James Joyce’s short story “Araby”. Or, Bring out the theme of James Joyce’s short story “Araby” and show how ...
Oh hadst thou, cruel! Been content to seize/Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these!
Explain the quotation: Oh hadst thou, cruel! Been content to seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these! Answer: These remarkable and conspicuous opening lines have been taken from the Canto-I of “The Rape of the Lock” by ...
What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
EXPLANATIONS: What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things. Answer: These memorable and note-worthy lines have been quoted from the First Canto of the famous mock-heroic poem namely “The Rape of the Lock” by ...
Write a brief account of the psychological development of the protagonist in Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe.
Question: Substantiate the view that Robinson Crusoe is as much the story of a man’s spiritual development as a story of action and adventure. Or, “The character of Robinson Crusoe is elaborate to give the action significances relating the story ...
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
Explain the quotation: On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Answer: These lines are extracted from the famous heroic-comical poem “The Rape of the Lock”. They are derived from the 2nd ...
A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; The inferior priestess, at her alter’s side Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.
Explain the quotation: A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; The inferior priestess, at her alter’s side Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Answer: These lines have been derived ...
Beware of all, but most beware of man!”
Explain the quotation: “This to disclose is all thy guardian can: Beware of all, but most beware of man!” Answer: These remarkable and conspicuous opening lines have been taken from the Canto-I of “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander ...
Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless loves, just at twelve, awake.
Explain the quotation: Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless loves, just at twelve, awake. Answer: These remarkable and conspicuous opening lines have been taken from the Canto-I of “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope, the ...