UGC-NET PYQs
Directions (Q.no. 1 to 3): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting-bone;
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song’s sake a food?
I pray-for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again-
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting-bone;
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song’s sake a food?
I pray-for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again-
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
1. Thoughts true for all time are:
2. In the second stanza the poet thinks of:
3. Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?
4. Arrange the following poems by W.B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication:
(a) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(b) “The Second Coming”
(c) “Among School Children”
(d) “Adam’s Curse”
(b) “The Second Coming”
(c) “Among School Children”
(d) “Adam’s Curse”
5. Which of the following two plays were written by W. B Yeats?
A) The Land of Heart’s Desire
B) Time and the Conways
C) The Silver Tassie
D) The Countess Cathleen
E) The Plough and the Stars
B) Time and the Conways
C) The Silver Tassie
D) The Countess Cathleen
E) The Plough and the Stars
6. Identify the poems termed as “pastoral elegies”:
[A] Lycidas
[B] In Memory of W.B. Yeats
[C] Adonais
[D] Thyrsis
[E] In Memoriam
[B] In Memory of W.B. Yeats
[C] Adonais
[D] Thyrsis
[E] In Memoriam
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