Honor and M. A. Gxamination. 1881. POETRY. Examiner-MR. K. DEIGHTon, M. a. 1. Shakespeare, Wordsworth said, "could not have written an Why not? Epic" 2. "Mr. Wordsworth's sonnet never goes off, as it, were, with a clap, or repercussion at the close; but is thrown up like a rocket, breaks into light, and falls in a soft shower of brightness:" Explair this effect of Wordsworth's sonnets, and point out why Shakespeare's sonnets differ so widely from his in this respect. 3. What predominant sentiments do you trace in each of the four "Books" of the Golden Treasury? Quote any passages from it which refer to the daisy, the daffodil, or the violet. 4. "In imaginative intensity Marvell and Shelley are closely related:" illustrate this remark by a comparison of passages from their lyrics. 5. Point out evidences of Keats' admiration of our Elizabethan poetry. 6. Describe the constitution and aims of the Order of the Knights of the Round Table. What circumstances led to its failure and dissolution? 7. To what does Tennyson compare the barge which bore Arthur to Avilion ? And to what, Lancelot's plucking down of Modred from the wall? Explain this "strange rhyme of by-gone Merlin :" "Where is he who knows? From the great deep to the great deep he goes." 8. Illustrate Tennyson's treatment of the Arthurian legends by comparing passages from the Idylls with the following extracts from Mallory's Morte D'Arthur: "Comfort thyself, said the king, and do as well as thou mayest, for in me is no trust for to trust in. For I will into the vale of Avilion, and heal me of my grievous wound. And if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul. But ever the queens and the ladies wept and shrieked, that it was pity to hear." "And when queen Guenever understood that king Arthur was slain, and all the noble knights, Sir Mordred and all the remnant, then the queen stole away, and five ladies with her, and so she went |