Ba 3rd year paper 1st PRELUDES by T.S. ELIOT

 Question.(1) What do yo know about Eliot's achievement ?

Answer. Born in America, T. S. Eliot  settled England and became a naturalised English citizen. He was a versatile genius — a poet, critic, essayist, poetic dramatist, editor and publisher. His two dramatic monologues ' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " and "Portrait of a lady " are his finest poems. His ' The Waste Land 'is an ironic comment on the decadence or corruption or emptiness of modern civilisation. He was awarded Order of Merit and Novel Prize for Literature in 1948.


Question.(2) What is the main theme of Eliot's poem 'Preludes' ?

Answer. The poem 'Preludes' is made up of a sequence of descriptions of details of urban experience. It gives us some of the most memorable pictures of an anonymous city. It dwells on the low aspects of urban life. The first two preludes give a purely objective rendering of the city at evening and morning. The last two preludes are about living human beings — a man and a woman.


Question.(3) Analyse the last prelude of the poem ?

Answer.In the fourth prelude we have evening again, once more dull and monotonous. The sketch of a city man and images from the first prelude are repeated here in different ways. The watcher takes it all in "His soul stretched tight across the skies". Then the speaker becomes " I" as he becomes conscious of some "infinitely gentle......  suffering thing". The workers are returning from their place of work in the evening, their short square fingers are filling pipes and looking at evening newspapers. Eliot wants to say that these people living in metropolis lack imagination.

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Ba 3rd year paper 1st DON'T CALL ME INDO-ANGLIAN by SYED AMANUDDIN

 DON'T CALL ME INDO-ANGLIAN Question.(1) Comment on the style of Syed Amanuddin's poems ? Answer. Syed Amanuddin has innovate style in his poems. He does not use punctuation marks and capital letters. He hates the use of hyphens. He uses a definite structure to divided his poems into sections and stanzas. He starts a line at the margin and then explains it in the lines that follow. Question.(2) Why does syed amanuddin dislike to be called Indo-anglian ? Answer. Syed Amanuddin dislikes to be called Indo-anglian because he is allergic to this term. Although he writes and dreams in English yet the term Indo-anglian does not appeal to him. He does not like a confused mixture of different things like culture and language. Question.(3) Why does syed amanuddin hate hyphens and hyphenated minda ? Answer. Syed Amanuddin hates hyphens because he considers them artificial bridges between artificial values in the name of race, religion and language.  He condemns all hyphenated minds wh...
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Ba 3rd year paper 1st IS POETRY ALWAYS WORTHY WHEN IT'S OLD by KALIDAS

 Is poetry always worthy when it's old Question.(1) What do you know about the life ? Answer. Kalidas, the greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist, was probably born in Ujjajini in Malwa in Central India. The probable years of his birth and death are 388 A. D. and 455 A. D. Nothing is known about for certain except that he was retained by the Gupta Court. Based on tradition it is represented that he was an illiterate person, till by the favour of the goddess he suddenly found himself endowed with poetic genius. Legend has it that he was a court poet of king Vikramaditya. Question.(2) What is the first question posed by Kalidas in the first line of the poem 'Is Poetry Always Worthy when it's Old ?" Answer. Kalidas has put a very pertinent question in the poem whether poetry is always worthy when it is old. Actually, time is the greatest critic and when a work stands the test of time, it becomes immortal. Thus poetry becomes worthy when it is old. Kalidas's poems are ...
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Ba 3rd year paper 1st BHARTRHARI

 BHARTRHARI Question.(1) What do you know about Bhartrhari ? Answer. Bhartrhari was the king of ujjayini (now Ujjain) in the Malwa region of Central India. He a great scholar, Sanskrit poet gram marian and philosopher. He belonged to parmar dynasty and lived in the latter half of the fifth century. He was the exponent of moral principles. He was the shining star of Indian culture. He was generous and kind to his subjects. Question.(2) Why did king Bhartri renounce his kingdom ? Answer.  Legend has it that king Bhartri renounced his kingdom and the world and retired to the forest when he discovered his queen pingala's infidelity in married life. He became a sadhu after the renunciation. Question.(3) What according to Bharthari is the function of poetry ? Answer. The function of poetry is to pierce our heart and through this to sway our senses. The poet compares poetry to a bowmen's arrow which also has the same function. Real success of a poem or an arrow lies in moving our sen...
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