January 2011- Dr. Muyad Jejo


QUESTION ONE: 40 marks
Identify and discuss the following extract:

Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul,
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is


QUESTION ONE: 40 marks
Define five of the following terms:

- Tragedy of awareness
- Vernacular
- Linear structure
- Nihilism
- Oxymoron
- Pastoral poetry
- Archaisms
- Anticlimactic title


QUESTION THREE: 40 marks
Attempt (A) or (B)

(A) Write an essay to discuss the factors that shaped modern war poetry in England and made it different from traditional war poetry.

(B) Write an essay to discuss flower symbolism in two modern poems you have studied.

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