BEGC-109 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BEGC-109
ASSIGNMENT: British Romantic Literature
Programme: BAEGH/2024-2025
Course Code: BEGC-109
Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. (20 x 5 = 100)
1. Explain the basic difference between the Neoclassical and Romantic theories
of poetry.
2. Define ‘Romantic Literature’ explaining the origin of the term ‘Romantic’,
giving various definitions, and elucidating salient features of romanticism.
3. Comment on Blake’s portrayal of children and childhood in his Songs of
Innocence and Experience.
4. Explain Coleridge’s ideas on ‘Fancy’ and ‘Imagination’.
5. Romantic poetry is replete with mystery, aura and quaintness of phenomena.
How is ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’ a masterpiece of romantic poetry
in this sense?
6. What are the romantic tendencies of Collins that won the appreciation of S.T.
Coleridge?
7. Critically interpret the poem “Ode to the West Wind”.
8. Describe Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a gothic novel.
9. Give an account of the sufferings that the mariner undergoes at various stages
in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
10. Discuss the connection between the life sketch of Mary Shelley and her novel
Frankenstein