Target Audience: Polytechnic Teachers and Students in Tamilnadu
Subject: English-1, II YEAR MOP, M SCHEME
Objective: Students should be able to interpret and explain a poem in English.
Question Pattern in Exam: IV. Answer any THREE questions in a paragraph each in 100 words : (3 x 5=15)
Four questions from 4 poems will be given in the exam and students should answer three questions, each in 100 words.
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1. How does Keats suggest the season in his ballad?
The season in the poem is late autumn or early winter season. Keats describes this season through dry grass, squirrel's granary, harvest, and absence of birds. The grass on the bank of lake is dry. The squirrel keeps its storage full with grains because if the winter grows, it cannot go out for collecting food. The harvest is also over. No birds sing here because they have moved some other place with favourable climate. Thus Keats describes the season that indirectly points out the unfavourable condition of the knight.
2. Narrate the sad tale of the knight at arms. Describe how the knight fell in love with the beautiful lady and declared the love and passion for her.
The knight met a beautiful lady in a meadow. He made a garland of flowers and bracelets for her. He put her on his moving horse. She gave him delicious roots, wild honey and the heavenly food manna. She told that she loved him truly. She took him to her cave and wept out of grief. But he kissed her eyes and consoled with his love. She then lulled him to sleep. In the dream, he was warned by dreadful pale kings, princes and warriors about the lady. They told that the beautiful lady had made him a slave mercilessly. He woke up and found him alone on the hill side. Since then, he has been walking aimlessly here.
3. What happened at the elfin grot?
Elfin grot refers to a cave occupied by little angel-like super natural beings called elfs. In Keats' poem, the beautiful lady takes the knight to such a cave. There the lady started weeping out of grief. He kissed her eyes and consoled with his love. She then lulled him to sleep. In the dream, he was warned by dreadful pale kings, princes and warriors about the lady. They told that the beautiful lady had made him a slave mercilessly. This is what happened at the elfin grot. The introduction of such cave, elf and dream element add more charms to medieval theme of the poem. It is also assumed that the lady has already cheated many kings, princes and warriors who appear in the dream.
4. Bring out the ballad features in the poem.
Ballad is a narrative form of poetry. It often begins with a question and the answer comes in the form of story. Keats has written “La Belle Dame Sans Merci" in ballad form. It begins with the question why the knight is so worried and walks alone on this hill side. Then the answer comes in the form of knight's sad story of love affair with a beautiful lady. A ballad is generally rhythmic in four line stanza, second and fourth line rhyming. This poem is also musical and lines end with - Child, wild – long, song- wide, side. Ballad also uses refrain – some lines are repeated. In this poem, for example, the line – “O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms” is repeated. The poem also uses medieval elements that is common with ballad.
5. Bring out the romantic, medieval and supernatural elements in the poem?
The poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” has romantic elements. The story itself is a love story. The knight falls in love with a beautiful lady. Usually lovers will exchange gifts. The knight gives her a garland of flowers and bracelets. The lady also gives him wild honey and manna. The poem is highly romantic when she says, “I love thee true" and he kisses her eyes four times. The story also has medieval elements. Knight is commonly found only in medieval period. Again, in medieval period, people believed in supernatural elements such as ghost and elfs. The lady in the poem appears to be a ghost. She, the elfs and the cave all suddenly disappear. Thus the poem is rich with romantic, medieval and supernatural elements.
Subject: English-1, II YEAR MOP, M SCHEME
Objective: Students should be able to interpret and explain a poem in English.
Question Pattern in Exam: IV. Answer any THREE questions in a paragraph each in 100 words : (3 x 5=15)
Four questions from 4 poems will be given in the exam and students should answer three questions, each in 100 words.
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1. How does Keats suggest the season in his ballad?
The season in the poem is late autumn or early winter season. Keats describes this season through dry grass, squirrel's granary, harvest, and absence of birds. The grass on the bank of lake is dry. The squirrel keeps its storage full with grains because if the winter grows, it cannot go out for collecting food. The harvest is also over. No birds sing here because they have moved some other place with favourable climate. Thus Keats describes the season that indirectly points out the unfavourable condition of the knight.
2. Narrate the sad tale of the knight at arms. Describe how the knight fell in love with the beautiful lady and declared the love and passion for her.
The knight met a beautiful lady in a meadow. He made a garland of flowers and bracelets for her. He put her on his moving horse. She gave him delicious roots, wild honey and the heavenly food manna. She told that she loved him truly. She took him to her cave and wept out of grief. But he kissed her eyes and consoled with his love. She then lulled him to sleep. In the dream, he was warned by dreadful pale kings, princes and warriors about the lady. They told that the beautiful lady had made him a slave mercilessly. He woke up and found him alone on the hill side. Since then, he has been walking aimlessly here.
3. What happened at the elfin grot?
Elfin grot refers to a cave occupied by little angel-like super natural beings called elfs. In Keats' poem, the beautiful lady takes the knight to such a cave. There the lady started weeping out of grief. He kissed her eyes and consoled with his love. She then lulled him to sleep. In the dream, he was warned by dreadful pale kings, princes and warriors about the lady. They told that the beautiful lady had made him a slave mercilessly. This is what happened at the elfin grot. The introduction of such cave, elf and dream element add more charms to medieval theme of the poem. It is also assumed that the lady has already cheated many kings, princes and warriors who appear in the dream.
4. Bring out the ballad features in the poem.
Ballad is a narrative form of poetry. It often begins with a question and the answer comes in the form of story. Keats has written “La Belle Dame Sans Merci" in ballad form. It begins with the question why the knight is so worried and walks alone on this hill side. Then the answer comes in the form of knight's sad story of love affair with a beautiful lady. A ballad is generally rhythmic in four line stanza, second and fourth line rhyming. This poem is also musical and lines end with - Child, wild – long, song- wide, side. Ballad also uses refrain – some lines are repeated. In this poem, for example, the line – “O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms” is repeated. The poem also uses medieval elements that is common with ballad.
5. Bring out the romantic, medieval and supernatural elements in the poem?
The poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” has romantic elements. The story itself is a love story. The knight falls in love with a beautiful lady. Usually lovers will exchange gifts. The knight gives her a garland of flowers and bracelets. The lady also gives him wild honey and manna. The poem is highly romantic when she says, “I love thee true" and he kisses her eyes four times. The story also has medieval elements. Knight is commonly found only in medieval period. Again, in medieval period, people believed in supernatural elements such as ghost and elfs. The lady in the poem appears to be a ghost. She, the elfs and the cave all suddenly disappear. Thus the poem is rich with romantic, medieval and supernatural elements.
Question and answers explains the summary of the poem very clearly. These are very helpful to the Literature students.
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