ENH 402 · 2019

Write in brief Yeats’s concept of history or the rise and fall of civilizations .

What is the significance of three Da’s in “The Waste Land”?

How does W. B. Yeats pay a glowing tribute to the freedom fighters in Easter 1916?

What is Yeats’s attitude to old age in Sailing to Byzantium?

Or, how are youth and old age contrasted in Sailing to Byzantium?

What does Byzantium symbolizes in the poem “Sailing to Byzantium”?

Explain the significance of the title, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Write a short note on mythology or Tiresias.

How is nature depicted in “Poem in October”?

What prayer does Dylan Thomas offer at the end of the poem “Poem in October”?

Discuss the personal elements of Yeats poetry.

Or, what attitude to politics does Yeats show in his poems that you have read?

Or, discuss W. B. Yeats as a poet of Irish nationalism.

How does Dylan Thomas treat the theme of religion in his poetry?

Or, Comment on the religious elements in Dylan Thomas’s poetry with reference to “Poem in October.”

Or, Discuss Dylan Thomas as a religious poet with reference to Poem in October.

Write a critical appreciation of the poem “Sailing to Byzantium”.

Discuss the symbols of Yeats poetry.

Discuss how The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock represents the conflict of modern man.

Or, how does Eliot express the conflict of modern man in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

Discuss how T. S. Eliot reflects the disorder and decay of modern civilization.

Discuss the myths and legends of the poem “The Waste Land”.

Or, “The Waste Land” is a sigh for the vanished glory of the past. Examine the view critically.

Write the critical appreciation of the poem The Morning Songs.

Write an essay on W. B. Yeats as a patriotic poet.