UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS
The questions given below have been taken from the question papers of various Universities of India.
1. Keats Sensuousness
1. Write a note on the sensuous quality of keats’ poetry.
2. “The poetry of keats is concrete and sensuous”. Explain this statement with illustrations.
3. Keats longed “for a life of sensation rather than of thought”. Show in what way his poems are a fulfilment of the longing.
2. Keats the Worshipper of Beauty
1. Write a note on keats as a lover of Beauty.
2. Write an eassay on keats’ worship of Beauty, and illustrate from poems you have read. Do you think he is justified in saying that Beauty is the same as Truth ?
3. Comment on the followng : “The aestheticism of keats has also an intellectual side”.
4. Bring out keats’ love of Beauty as illustrated by the poems you have read.
3. Keats’ theory of poetry
1. With special reference to ‘Sleep and Poetry’, analyse keats view of poetry.
4. Keats’ – the pure poet
1. “Keats as a pure poet”. Explain and illustrate.
5. Keats as the poet of Nature
1. As a poet of nature, is keats in line with his own contemporaries or with the 18th century ?
2. Write a brief note on the nature poetry of keats.
6. Keats as an artist
1. Write a note on keats’ picturesqueness.
2. Write a note on the rapidity of development of the Art of keats, and refer to his career as an author in this connection.
3. Trace the progress of keats’ art from Romantic intensity to perfect classicism.
4. Illustrate keats personification from his poems.
5. Write an eassay on keats as a master of the imaginative phrase.
6. Write a short note on keats as a pictorial poet.
7. Discuss : Keats had, in an unapproached degree, the two essential gifts of a great artist – the sense of Beauty and sense of colour.
8. “Keats is said to be the greatest colourist in literature”. Examine and illustrate.
9. “In none of our poets, with the sole exception of Shakespeare, do we find so many phrases, so happy in their boldness as in keats”. Examine this view.
7. Keats as a writer of odes
1. Write a short essay on “The odes as handled by keats”.
2. “A May morning, an autumn afternoon, a hightingale’s song, a mood of dreamy relaxation from intense, almost momentary, experiences life these spring poems (the odes of keats) which touch a universal note”. Discuss.
3. Write a critical appreciation of Ode to Nighingale or Ode to Autumn.
4. Analyse Ode to Autumn so as to show that the poem is as accurate as it is imaginative, as faithful to the actual.