MEG-18 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-18)
AMERICAN POETRY
ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MEG-18
Assignment Code: MEG-18/TMA/2024-25
Max. Marks: 100

Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. (20 x 5=100)

1. Trace the history of colonialism in America and its impact on American poetry.
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2. Write short notes on: (10 x 2 = 20)
a) American Spirot and Puritan Spirit
b) American poetry today
3. Walt Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself” is a social 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 ‘self’ of the poet? 20
5. Critically appreciate the poems, “ Home Burial” and “After apple Picking”. 20

6. Discuss Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko as important Native American poets.
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