Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" suggests that love can provide solace amidst the isolation and suffering inherent in the human condition. Discuss. 

Write a short note on the central idea of the poem "Pied Beauty."

 Write a note on Dickens' depiction of Madame Defarge as a revolutionary figure in A Tale of Two Cities.

What is a dramatic monologue? Discuss with reference to the poems in your course.

Write a short note on Henchard's tragic hero-like presence in The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Oh! then a longing like despair

Is to their farthest caverns sent;

For surely once, they feel, we were

Parts of a single continent!

Now round us spreads the watery plain

Oh might our marges meet again!

"Nay, hush, my sister:

I ate and ate my fill,

Yet my mouth waters still;

To-morrow night I will

Buy more;"

She thanked men-good! but thanked

Somehow I know not how as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame

This sort of trifling?

And moving thro' a mirror clear

That hangs before her all the year,

Shadows of the world appear.

There she sees the highway nea

Winding down to Camelot

Discuss the symbolism in the poem 'The Second Coming', with reference to Yeats's cyclical theory of history.

Discuss the themes of class and social mobility with reference to Sons and Lovers.

Explain the significance of the title of the poem 'I think continually of those who are truly great.'

The theme of the poem 'The Journey of the Magi'.

The experimental plot of Mrs. Dalloway.

Psychoanalytic readings of Sons and Lovers.

 Characteristics of modernist poetry

 "When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation. And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."

 "Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley, Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation; With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness, And three trees on the low sky, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow."

 "The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."

"What are you saying Septimus," Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was talking to himself. She sent Agnes running for Dr. Holmes. Her husband, she said, was mad. He scarcely knew her. "You brute! You brute!" cried Septimus, seeing human nature, that is Dr. Holmes enter the room."