MEG 01 : British Poetry in English Solved Assignment 2025-26

Answer all questions.
1. Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context:

(i) A povre wydwe somdeel stape in age, Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage, Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale.
This wydwe, of which I telle yow my tale,”
(ii) At length they all to mery London came, To mery London, my most kyndly nurse, That to me gave, this lifes first native sourse Though from another place I take my name,”
(iii) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?
(iv) Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.”

2. Critically evaluate the following poems:
(a) The Garden
(b) The Blessed Damozel

3. Discuss the poem The Triumph of Life in the light of the opinion that “Shelley achieves the sublime”.

4. Discuss Yeats’s use of history in his poems ‘Easter 1916’ and ‘Lapis Lazuli’.

5. Do you think that Daddy, a poem by Sylvia Plath, is a protest against patriarchy? Critically comment.