ENG 213 Final, Fall 2002

ae -. peo oxneunsrr | LIbGARY ENGLISH 213 ae ROT FINAL EXAMINATION FALL 2002-2003 Prof. C.S. Nassar January 2003 Time Allowed: 2 Hours Choose TWO of the following essay questions and write for 60 minutes on each. Your essays should be well-organized and written in good English. . Discuss the theme of seriousness vs. triviality in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and Byron’s Don Juan. Why is one a Neo-classical poem and the other Romantic? (If you choose this topic, do not choose nos. 3 or 6 as well.) . Dejection is a topic that several poets addressed this semester. Discuss the treatment of this topic by Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. . Gulliver’s Travels and Don Juan are both satires. What do they satirize? Explore. (If you choose this question, do not choose no. | as well.) . Explore the theme of the supernatural world in Shelley, Wordsworth and Keats. The negative attitude to age is typical of miar}, Romantic poetry. Explore the treatment of age in three Romantic poets of your choice. . What are the main characteristics of Neo-classical literature? Show how they manifest themselves in Pope, Swift, and Johnson. . Explore Wordsworth’s shifting attitude to Nature, then compare and contrast it with that of Coleridge.