In the light of what you have learnt, write a brief poem on your childhood, or your experience of love, or an aspect of nature that has appealed you. 

Read the following poem and answer the questions given at the end. 
The Little Boy Lost
„Father, father, where are you going?
O do not walk so fast.
Speak father, speak to your little boy
Or else I shall be lost‟.
The night was dark, no father was there,
The child was wet with dew.
The mire was deep, & the child did weep,
And away the vapour flew.
The Little Boy Found
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wand‟ ring light,
Began to cry, but God ever nigh
Appeared like his father in white.
He kissed the child & by the hand led
And to his mother brought,
Who in sorrow pale, thro‟ the lonely dale,
Her little boy weeping sought.
a. Are there any symbols in the poem? Where?
b. What, in your opinion, makes the poem symbolic? 

Attempt an analysis, in terms of meter and rhyme of any two of the following: 

a. In vain to me the smiling mornings
 shine,
and reddening Phoebus lifts his
 golden fire;
the birds in vairl their amorous
 descant join,
or cheerful fields resume their
 green attire;….
b. Cruelty has a Human heart
And Jealousy a Human Face,
Terror, the Human Form Divine,
And Secrecy, the Human Dress.
c. London bridge is falling down, falling
 down, falling down
London bridge is falling down, my fair
 lady;
Build it up with iron bars, iron bars,
 iron bars
Build it up with iron bars, my fair
 lady.
d. There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter named Nan
Ran away with a man… 

What are the possible uses of colloquialisms in poetry? 

Distinguish between a „rounded ending‟ and an „open ending‟ with illustrations.

Here are the opening lines of a poem. Can you continue the theme to make up a brief
 poem? 
 The sea is calm tonigh
 The tide is full, the moon lies fair
 upon…..

 Read the following poems carefully: 
Conventions of Despair
Yes, I know all that, I should be modern.
Marry again. See strippers at the Tease.
Touch Africa. Go to the movies
Impale a six-inch spider
Under a lens. Join the TestBans, or become The outsider.
Or pay to shake my fist
(or whatever-you-call-it) at a psychoanalyst.
And when I burn
I should smile, dry-eyed,
And nurse martinis like the Marginal Man.
But, sorry, I cannot unlearn
Conventions of despair.
They have their pride
I must seek and will find
my particular hell only in my Hindu mind;
must translate, and turn
till I blister and roast
for certain lives to come, „eye-deep‟,
in those Boiling Crates of Oil, weep
iron tears for winning what I should have lost;
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see Them with lidless eyes
saw precisely in two equal parts
(one of the sixty-four arts
they learn in That place)
a once-beloved head
at the naked parting of her hair.
(a) Make a list of colloquialism in the poem. Now try to replace them with ordinary
words or expressions.
(b) Is the use of the colloquial justifiable in the poem? State your reasons clearly.