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S.T. Coleridge Previous Year UGC-NET Questions
1. “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.” The above lines are quoted from
2. A half-sentence in Purchas his Pilgrimage triggered off “Kubla Khan”. Whose work was Purchas his Pilgrimage?
3. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the sacred river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?
4. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem in _________
5. The opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”: “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light The glory and freshness of a dream”, closely resembles Coleridge’s lines: “There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies, The bright green vale, and the forest’s dark recess, With all things, lay before mine eyes In steady loveliness”. Identify the Coleridge poem:
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by…
7. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is about
8. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
9. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
10. Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?
11. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as ‘The Sage of Highgate’?
12. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?
13. Match the columns:
Terms:
I. Apollonian – Dionysian
II. Fancy – Imagination
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – Instress
Theorists:
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. G.H. Hopkins
4. S.T. Coleridge
I II III IV
14. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehanna river?
15. “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language… The language, too, of these men has been adopted… because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived”. Which of the following groups of the author’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800) contradict this statement in the “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed out by S.T. Coleridge?
16. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” what disaster befalls the ship and the crew?
17. “Kubla Khan” is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not published until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to publish it?
18. Match the work with author:
Works:
I. “The Excursion”
II. “Christabel”
III. Milton
IV. Queen Mab
Authors:
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake
I II III IV
19. Which character created by Coleridge makes the following account of her harrowing experience?
“Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
Me, even me, a maid forlorn :
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white”.
Me, even me, a maid forlorn :
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white”.
20. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and criticism” who constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters political”?
21. S.T. Coleridge “Dejection : An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a reference to a ballad. Identify the ballad.
22. In which of the following works is the character ‘Ariel’ an exclusion?
23. As mentioned in “My First Acquaintance with Poets” which poet does William Hazlitt describe as the “only person I ever knew who answered the idea of a man of genius”?
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