MEG-18 2023-24 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-18)
AMERICAN POETRY
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code: MEG-18
Assignment Code: MEG-18/TMA/2023-24
Max. Marks: 100
Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. (20 x 5=100)
1. Enumerate on the Revolutionary War and Treaty of Paris and their impact on American poetry
20
2. Write short notes on: (10 x 2 = 20)
a) American Spirit
b) Puritan Spirit
3. Philip Freneau’s poem, “The Wild Honey Suckle” is a political document engaging American
national landscape – discuss. 20
4. How does the choice of words in the poem “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” help to illustrate the
idea of drunkenness? 20
5. Critically appreciate Robert Lowell’s poem, “For the Union Dead” 20
6. Discuss the use of imageries by Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko in the poems given in your
syllabus.