PYQ of Lord Alfred Tennyson

★Broad Questions:
1. How are life and death represented in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s in memoriam?
(2021)
2. Examine how Tennyson’s poetry reflects and critiques the social norms, values, and
issues of the Victorian era. (2021)
3. What forms the central idea of the poem “the Lotos-Eaters”? (2020)
4. In what way is “Tithonus” a dramatic monologue with an elegiac strain? (2020)
5. Evaluate Tennyson's “In Memoriam” as an elegy. (2020)
6. Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" anticipates the idea of art as the perfection of
pleasure. Elucidate. (2019)
7. In what ways is Tennyson's “Tithonus" a dramatic monologue in an elegiac strain?
(2019)
8. Discuss how Tennyson accepts the loss and asserts his belief in life and after life in
his “In Memorium”. (2018)
9. How does Tennyson build up the atmosphere of languor in “The Lotus-Eaters?
(2018)
10. How is Tennyson affected by the sudden death of his closest friend, Arthur Hallam
in "In Memorium"? (2017)
11. In "The Lotos-Eaters" how does Tennyson create a dreamy atmosphere of
indolence? Discuss with reference to the imagery and technical excellence of the
poem. (2016)
12. Comment on the pictorial quality in Tennyson's poems. (2015)
13.

★Short Questions:
1. In “Tithonus”, how does Tennyson utilize the concept of memory to intensify the
sense of anguish? (2021)
2. Evaluate Tennyson’s the “Lotos-Eaters” as an exploration on the theme of
escapism. (2021)
3. Referring to in memoriam, write a note on Tennyson’s Perspective of faith. (2021)
4. How does Tennyson build up pathos of Tithonus' immortal life in the opening stanza
of the poem “Tithonus”? (2020)
5. How are gods represented in the Lotos- Eaters? Described their attitude towards
human. (2020)
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 6. Write a brief introduction to Arthur Henry Hallam with references to Tennyson's In
Memoriam. (2020)
7. In Tithonus, how does Tennyson Use an ancient myth to express a personal loss?
(2020)
8. In the land of Lotos-eaters, why did it seem to be "always afternoon"? Answer this
question with reference to Tennyson's The Lotos-Eaters? (2019)
9. What was the significance of the gift of Zeus conferred on Tithonus in Tennyson's
Tithonus? (2019)
10. Why, in Lyric 1 of In Memoriam, does Love need to "clasp" Grief? What is the
penalty if Love fails to do so? (2019)
11. Analyse Tennyson's of classical myths in his "Tithonus" and "The Lotos-Eaters”.
(2018)
12. How does Tennyson combine the unnatural combination of mortality and
Immortality in the poem, Tithonus? (2017)
13. Shed light on the elegiac elements in Tennyson's In Memoriam. (2016)
14. Discuss Tennyson's reactions to the new challenges of science at his time in la
(2015)
15.

★Locate & Explain:

1. Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the
swan. –Tithonus (2021)
2. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary
dream. – The Lotos-Eaters (2021)
3. "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,. "This mounting wave will roll us
shoreward soon." - The Lotos-Eaters (2020)
4. The charmed sunset linger'd low adown. In the red West: thro' mountain clefts the
dale.- The Lotos-Eaters (2020)
5. Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.
The ever-silent spaces of the East, Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn. -
Tithonus (2020)
6. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is
dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. - In Memorium (2020)
7. Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, and after many a summer dies the
swan. Tithonus (2019)
16. Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren
foam. The Lotos-Eaters (2019)
8. Thou seemest human and divine. The highest, holiest manhood, thou. - In
Memoriam (2019)

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9. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary
dream. The Lotos-Eaters (2018)
10. I earth in earth forget these empty courts, And thee returning on thy silver wheels. -
Tithonus (2018)
11. But who shall so forecast the years, context any few of the following And find in loss
a gain to match? - In Memoriam (2017)
12. Release me, and restore me to the ground; Thou seest all things, thou wilt see my
grave: Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn I earth in earth forget these empty
courts, and thee returning on thy silver wheels. -Tithonus (2017)
13. Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how
they give. -Tithonus (2016)
14. Thou will not leave us in the dust Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he
was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. In Memoriam (2016)
15. A land of streams! Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest
lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a
slumberous sheet of foam below. - The Lotos-Eaters (2015)
16. Why should a man desire in any way to vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass
beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? -
Tithonus
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PYQ of Robert Browning

★Broad Questions:
1. How does Browning explore the relationship between the grammarian and his
disciples in “A Grammarian’s Funeral”? (2021)
2. Discuss the different artistic challenges faced by Fra lippo lippi and Andrea del
sarto. How do these challenges influence the type of art they create? (2021)
3. How does Andrea draw a parallel between Andrea's art and Lucrezia's beauty?
(2020)
4. Comment On the biblical allusions used in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi.” (2020)
5. Discuss the different artistic challenges faced by “Fra Lippo Lippi” and “Andrea
del Sarto.” How do these challenges influence the type of art they create? (2019)
6. Is Browning's "A Grammarian's Funeral" a paean to the grammarian's lofty ideals
or a denunciation of his austere way of life? Give reasons for your answer. (2019)
7. How does the peter-monk in " Fra Lippo Lippi" try to justify his delights in worldly
pleasure and disinterest in spiritual art? (2018)
8. Discuss the different artistic challenges faced by Fra Lippo Lippi and Andrea del
Sarto. How do these challenges influence the type of art they create? (2017)
9. Discuss the setting of Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" with reference to the tone and
mood of the poem. (2016)
10. According to the narrator of the poem, "A Grammarian's Funeral", what are the
noble achievements of the Grammarian? Discuss. (2015)
11.

★Short Questions:
1. Analyse the role of Lucrezia in Browning’s “Andrea Del Sarto.” (2021)
2. How does Browning divide people in his poem “A grammarian’s funeral”? (2021)
3. In Browning’s “Fra lippo lippi”, how do the symbols of light and shade reveal
internal and external conflicts in the artist's life? (2021)
4. Comment on the opening of Robert browning's “Fra Lippo-Lippi.” (2020)
5. What lesson has Lippo learnt from the Bible? (2020)
6. What is necessary for good art? what was Andrea's fault regarding painting? (2020)
7. What dose “gray” signify in Browning’s “Andrea Del Sarto”? Why does Andrea say,
“A common grayness silvers everything”? (2019)
8. How does Browning use of imagery add to the ambiguity of the A Grammarian's
Funeral? (2019)

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 9. What circumstance of life compelled Lippi to become a monk at the age of eight years
in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi”? (2019)
10. According to the narrator of the poem, "A Grammarian's Funeral" what are the
noble achievements of the Grammarian? (2018)
11. Discuss the major themes of the poem, 'A Grammarian's Funeral". (2017)
12. In Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" how does the speaker introduce himself? Identify
the dramatic context of the poem. (2016)
13. Trace the inner essence of the Renaissance art from your reading of the poem, "Fra
Lippo Lippi” (2015)
14.

★Locate & Explain:

1. Your business is to paint the souls of men—. Man's soul, and it's a fire, smoke . . . no,
it's not... –“Fra Lippo Lippi” (2021)
2. My face, my moon, my everybody's moon. Which everybody looks on and calls his. –
“Andrea Del Sarto” (2021)
3. I'll work then for your friend's friend, never fear, Treat his own subject after his own
way, Fix his own time, accept too his own price, And shut the money into this small
hand - “Andrea Del Sarto” (2020)
4. Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him still loftier than the
world suspects, Living and dying. – “A Grammarian's Funeral” (2020)
5. He ventured neck or nothing heaven's success. Found, or earth's failure: - “A
Grammarian's Funeral” (2020)
6. The Carmine's my cloister: hunt it up, Do,—harry out, if you must show your zeal,
Whatever rat, there, haps on his wrong hole, – “Fra Lippo Lippi” (2020)
7. I am grown peaceful as old age to-night. I regret little, I would change still less. –
“Andrea Del Sarto” (2019)
8. And so, along the wall, over the bridge, But the straight cut to the convent. – “Fra
Lippo Lippi” (2019)
9. Lofty designs must close in like effect Loftily lying leave him still loftier than the world
suspects, Living and dying. – “A Grammarian's Funeral” (2019)
10. You smile? Why, there's my picture ready-made, there’s what we painters call our
harmony! – “Andrea Del Sarto” (2018) (2016)
11. On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture! – “A Grammarian’s
portrayal” (2018)
12. Thank you! My head being crammed, The walls a blank, Never was such prompt
disburdening. – “Fra Lippo Lippi” (2017)
13. Learned, we found him Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead, accents
uncertain "Time to taste life," another would have said, "Up with the curtain!" This

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 man said rather, "Actual life comes next? Patience a moment! - Grammarian's
Funeral (2017)
14. A-painting for the great man, saints and saints And saints again. - “Fra Lippo
Lippi” (2016)
15. But do not far us quarrel anymore. No, my Lucrezia, bear with the for once: Sit down
and oil shall happen as you wish. – “Andrea Del Sarto” (2015)
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PYQ of Mathew Arnold

★Broad Questions:
1. Does Matthew Arnold appear to be an optimist or pessimist in “Dover Beach”?
Explain. (2021)
2. Evaluate Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis” as a pastoral Elegy.
3. What is the mood of the poem “Dover Beach”. Explain with textual references.
(2020)
4. How does Arnold criticize the Victorian society in “Thyrsis”? (2019)
5. What situations of life helped to create and sustain the melancholy mood in Mathew
Arnold's "Dover Beach"?
6. Discuss Arnold as a descriptive poet with reference to “Thyrsis" and "Dover
Beach”. (2018)
7. Do you agree with the speaker of the poem, "Dover Beach" that there is less faith,
less belief in religion in the world than there used to be? If so, is human life affected
for better, or worse? (2017)
8. In "Thyrsis", how does Matthew Arnold recall the memory of Arthur Hugh Clough?
Discuss. (2016)
9. Consider Arnold's “Thyrsis” as a pastoral elegy. (2015)
10.

★Short Questions:
1. What does the poet lament in the poem “Dover Beach” and why? (2021)
2. Write about the significance of the title “Thyrsis” by Matthew Arnold?
3. In “Rugby Chapel,” how does Mathew Arnold depict the Victorian spirit?
4. Describe the evening atmosphere in “Dover Beach”. (2020)
5. Comment on the images used in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”.
6. What is the significance of the Elm tree in “Thyrsis”?
7. Why is “Thyrsis” is a pastoral Elegy?
8. Comment on the pictorial description of the opening lines of Mathew Arnold’s
“Dover Beach”? (2019)
9. Critically comment on the Quest motif in Arnold’s “Thyrsis”.
10. How does Arnold recall his Oxford days in "Thyrsis"? (2018)
11. How realistic does the setting appear in Arnold's "Thyrsis"? (2017)
11. Is Arnold's "Dover Beach” only about the natural world? Or does it reveal deeper
philosophy about human feelings? (2016)

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 12. Show how Arnold's "Dover Beach" is a representative poem of the Victorian
period. (2015)
13.

★Locate & Explain:

1. O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been
left vain! – “Rugby Chapel” (2021)
2. Sophocles long ago /Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought /Into his mind the turbid
ebb and flow /Of human misery; -“Dover Beach” (2021)
3. The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair. Upon the straits; on the
French coast the light. - “Dover Beach” (2020)
4. And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and
flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. – “Dover Beach”
5. Runs it not here, the track by Childsworth Farm, /Past the high wood, to where the
elm-tree crowns /The hill behind whose ridge the sunset flames? –“Thyrsis”
6. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds
of a bright girdle furled. “Dover Beach” (2019) (2015)
7. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!- “Dover Beach”
8. The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. – “Thyrsis”
9. How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing
keeps the same, the village street its haunted mansion Jacks, And from the sign is
gone Sibylla's name, And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks- Are ye too
changed, ye hills? – “Thyrsis” (2018)
10. Ah me! this many a year, My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday! – “Thyrsis”
11. Begin, and cease, and then again begin, with tremulous cadence slow, and bring, The
eternal note of sadness in. - “Dover Beach” (2017)
12. Ah mel these many a year My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday! -Thyrsis (2016)
13. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought into his mind the turbid
ebb and flow Of human misery: - “Dover Beach” (2016)
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PYQ of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

★Broad Questions:
1. Critically analyse Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Affirmation of selfhood through
contemplation on love and death in sonnets from the Portuguese. (2021)
2. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in her search for poetic “grandmothers”,
Challenge gender conventions through her poetry? (2021)
3. In Sonnet 22 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese", what
does the speaker aspire to achieve? Why does she want her beloved to stay on earth?
(2018)
4. Examine the depth and range of the passionate love expressed for her beloved in
Sonnet 43 of Elizabeth Barret Browning's Sonnets from Portuguese. (2017)
5. Discuss Sonnet 43 of Sonnet from the Portuguese. What promise of love and
emotional intensity, do you hear from the speaker? (2016)
6. Comment on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets 21 and 22 in Sonnets from the
Portuguese with reference to theme and diction. (2015)
7.

★Short Questions:
1. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning convey the idea of the immortality of her love
in “how do I love thee”? (2021)
2. Discuss the significance of the similes used in Elizabeth Barrett browning’s “sonnet
43”. (2021)
3. Write a note on the flower symbolism prevalent in Elizabeth Barrett browning’s
“sonnet 44”. (2021)
4. Summarize the message of Sonnets from Portuguese 21: with an explanation of the
significance of the cuckoo. (2017)
5. In Sonnet 22 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet from the Portuguese, what
does the speaker aspire to? Why does she want her beloved to stay on earth? (2016)
6. Evaluate Elizabeth Barrett Browning as a woman poet of the Victorian period. (2015)
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★Locate & Explain:
1. The angels would press on us and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence. – “Sonnets from the Portuguese 22” (2021)
2. And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, ... /Guess now who holds thee?'—Death,' I
said. But there, /The silver answer rang ... Not Death, but Love.' - Sonnets from
the Portuguese 1. (2021)
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