ENG 219 Final, Spring 1997

‘4S 7 ,. 1 ENGLISH 219: FINAL EXAMINATION Ne we Sy 7 poe 23 June 1997 NT TWO HOURS Prof, Nassar PART ONE (30%): The following two quotations are from Shelley and Keats respectively. In each case: (1) analyze the ideas and stylistic devices in the quotation, (2) Link to something else you have come across this semester, 1. Thy light alone~-like\ mist o'er mountains driven, Or music bythe night-wind sent Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream. "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" And they are gone: aye, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe, And all his warrior-—guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and largo ooffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela the old Died palsy~twitched, with meagre face deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. "The Eve of St. Agnes" PART TWO (70%): Choose TWO of the following essay questions, In each case, write a well-organized and well- developed essay. Be sure to make specific references to the poems discussed, 1. Compare and contrast Childe Harold's Pil rimage and Don Juan both thematically and stylistical y. 2. Discuss the treatment of death in Wordsworth's "Intimations" ode and "Elegiac Stanzas," Shelley's “Adonais" and Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." .3- Discuss the treatment of art and/or the creative artist in Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper," Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and Shelley's poetry. 4. Dejection is a major theme in Romantic literature. Explore this theme as it appears in a few of the poems you read this semester. (Examples are Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence," Coleridge's "De jection," Byron's poetry, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans'Merci," and so on). GOOD LUCK!