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 \n(c)What is the difference between epic and mock epic?  \n(d)Discuss Romanticism as a broad movement of thought in philosophy andliterature.  \n(e)How did the Industrial Revolution affect literature in the Eighteenth Century?  \n2.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)Nature and society are frequently contrasted in The Tempest.Trace this themethroughout the course of the play.15  \n(b)John Donne's poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensualstyle.Explain this with reference to the poems prescribed in the syllabus.  15  \n(c)Examine Milton's treatment of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost,particularly hisopinions concerning marriage and gender roles appropriate to each sex.20  \n3.Answer all of the following:  \n15  \n(a)Comment on the role of epic machinery in The Rape of the Lock.  \n(b)Explain how through his poetry Wordsworth is overtly exploring an intimatecorrelation between mankind and nature.15  \n(c)Does the speaker in Tennyson's In Memoriam accept the fact that memory is aselective,filtering experience?What is the role of filtering in the poem?20  \n4.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)By considering the dramatic effects of King Lear,evaluate the view that despitethe appalling suffering,the world of the play is not without hope.20  \n(b)Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is generally considered a feminist work.Do youagree with this view?Why or why not?  \n15  \n(c)Discuss Wordsworth as a sonneteer with special reference to the sonnetsprescribed in the syllabus.  \nSECTION—B  \n## 5.Study the following poem and answer all the questions which follow :\n\n10×5=50  \nSee it,the beautiful ballPoised in the toyshop window,Rounder than sun or moon.Is it red?is it blue?is it violet?It is everything we desire,And it does not exist at all.  \nNon-existent and beautiful?Quite.In the rounding leap of our hands,In the longing hush of air,We know what that ball could be,How its blues and reds could spinTo a headier violet.  \nBeautiful in the mind,  \nLike a word we are waiting to hear,That ball is construed,but livesOnly in flash of flight,From the instant of releaseTo the catch in another's hand.  \nAnd the toy withheld is the tokenOf all who refrain from play—The shopkeepers,the collectorsLike Queen Victoria,  \nIn whose adorable doll's houseNothing was ever broken.  \n(a)What are the two toys mentioned in the poem?What do they represent?  \n(b)How do alliteration,consonance and assonance create movement in the poem? 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