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T.S. Eliot As A Poet Previous Year UGC-NET
1. “While the world moves In appentency on its metalled way Of time past and time future” These lines are from:
2. In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?
3. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The Four Quartets.
4. A critical question Eliot’s Prufrock poses, so important to an understanding of his character, is
5. ‘IL Migilor Fabro’ is the expression Eliot used for:
6. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of
7. Which Eliotian character utters the question – “Do I eat a peach”?
8. In its final published version, Eliot’s The Waste Land contains a total of
9. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English?
10. “Along the shore of silver streaming Thames; Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers,… Fit to deck maidens’ bowers And crown their paramours Against their bridal day, which is not long; Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.” (Spenser’s Prothalamion) Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:
11. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem:
Sections:
1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead
12. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly mentioned?
13. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land?
14. Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste Land?
15. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
16. Identify the titles that were published in the 1920’s
Titles:
(a) Look, Stranger!
(b) The Tower
(c) The Waste Land
(d) The Road to Wigan Pier
17. Evelyn Waugh once complained that T.S. Eliot Poems, 1909-1925 was “marvelously good, but very hard to understand,” The most pessimistic novel Waugh wrote was called ____________ and he owed the title to ___________
18. In “Gerontion” T.S Eliot says “_____________ has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides us by vanities” What is Eliot’s subject?
19. In Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock who among the following painters is the subject of conversation among the perambulating women?
20. Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T.S Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in ‘The Metaphysical Poets’?
French Writers:
A. Francois Villon
B. Jean Racine
C. Charles Baudelaire
D. Arthur Rimbaud
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Thank you.