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Suggestion of American Poetry

4th Year Final Exam 2022, will be held on the year-2024 (এটা 2024 সালের এক্সাম এর জন্য সাজেশান)

Suggestion of American Poetry

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Part – C

Emily Dickinson

  1. *** Discuss Dickinson’s poetic diction.
  2. *** Discuss mysticism in Dickinson’s poems.
  3. *** Discuss symbolism found in Dickinson’s poems.
  4. Death is the recurring symbol of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
  5. Discuss the critical appreciation of “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”.

Walt Whitman

  1. *** Discuss Whitman’s treatment of soul, self, and body based on ‘Song of Myself’.
  2. *** Comment on the use of Whitman’s use of Imagery/symbols in his poems.
  3. Discuss Whitman as a mystic poet.
  4. Discuss the critical appreciation/justify the title of ‘O my Captain My captain’.

Robert Frost

  1. *** Discuss the theme of alienation in Frost’s poems.
  2. *** Discuss Robert Frost as a modern poet.
  3. *** Discuss the rural setting of Frost’s poem/ Poet of Nature.
  4. Discuss the symbolic elements from Robert Frost’s poems.

Langston Hughes

  1. *** Discuss the major themes/anti-racial elements in Hughes’ poetry.
  2. *** Discuss the dark side/ugly aspects of American society/life in Hughes’ time.
  3. Discuss Hughes as an American poet.
  4. *** Discuss the socio-politic conditions of America in the poems of Langston Hughes.

Part – B

Robert Frost

  1. Why does Frost say ‘Earth is the right place for love’?
  2. What did the poet and his neighbour do in mending the wall?
  3. What are the arguments of the two men in the Mending Wall?
  4. What are Warren’s complaints about Silas, their old Servant?
  5. How did Warren and Mary argue about what is a home?
  6. What differences did the poet find between the two roads he had to choose from?
  7. Can you find any symbolic significance of the poet’s choosing the road not taken?
  8. What does the poet mean when he says, “I have been acquainted with the night.”?
  9. What does the proclamation of a “luminary clock” indicate?
  10. Write a short note on monologue.

Walt Whitman

  1. How does the poet describe the funeral processing that passes through many cities on a very long journey to its destination?
  2. How does Whitman describe the beauty of his “Own Manhattan”?
  3. What vision did the poet see while he was listening to the song of the Gray-brown bird?
  4. What does Whiteman ignore in order to pay his last respect for the person he loves?
  5. Write a note on Whitman’s use of symbols.
  6. What is the background of the poem “O Captain! My Captain!”?
  7. Why does the poet cry out “But O heart! Heart!”?
  8. How does the poet bring out this loneliness at the end of the poem?
  9. How does Whitman express his grief over the death of the captain?
  10. How does the poet use color as a symbol of race?
  11. What picture of American Civil War do you find in the poem When….Lilacs?
  12. Write a note on American Civil War.

Emily Dickinson

  1. How can the poem “Wild Nights- Wild Nights” be regarded as a poem of mystic experience?
  2. How does Dickinson express her love in “Wild Nights- Wild Nights”?
  3. What does the poet actually mean by her expression, “I taste a liqor never brewed”?
  4. The poet expresses great enthusiasm for drinking the alcohol of the beauties of Nature?
  5. How does Dickinson treat immortality in her poems?
  6. How long will the poet continue drinking the alcohol or nectar from nature?
  7. What do you understand by the poet’s wild nights being luxury?
  8. What were the feelings of the poet when she is at the last point of the funeral?

Langston Hughes

  1. Discuss the significance of the title of the poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
  2. What did Langston Hughes learn from his visit to the rivers?
  3. What picture of a black American do you get from the poem, I Too, Sing America?
  4. What optimism does the Black American slave express in the poem I Too, Sing America?
  5. Do you think I Too, Sing America expresses the optimistic view of the Black American slave?
  6. Analyze the theme of racial inequality in the poem I Too, Sing America.
  7. How was the singer singing on Lenox Avenue at night?
  8. What is the subject matter of the song that the African-American sang on Lenox Avenue in New York one night?
  9. How do you justify the title “Harlem” for this poem?
  10. Write a short note on Harlem.
  11. What is the significance of the order in which the four rivers are mentioned in the poem?
  12. What does the poet guess about the results of a deferred dream?
  13. What are the American dreams?

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Previous Questions

Question of 2021

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Part – C

  1. Discuss the major themes/theme of immortality in Emily Dickinson’s poems.
  2. Discuss Dickinson’s poetic diction.
  3. Discuss the critical appreciation of “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”.
  4. Discuss Dickinson as a poet of nature.

  1. Discuss Whitman’s treatment of soul, self, and body based on ‘Song of Myself’.
  2. Comment on the use of Whitman’s use of Imagery/symbols in his poems.
  3. Discuss Whitman as a mystic poet/as a modern poet.
  4. Discuss ‘O my Captain, My captain’ as an elegy.
  5. Discuss the critical appreciation/justify the title of ‘O my Captain My captain’/’The Death Of The hired man’.

  1. Discuss the theme of alienation in Frost’s poems.
  2. Discuss Robert Frost as a poet of the common man.
  3. Discuss the rural setting of Frost’s poem.
  4. Discuss the symbolic elements from Robert Frost’s poems.

  1. Discuss the themes/anti-racial elements in Hughes’ poetry.
  2. Discuss the dark side/ugly aspects of American society/life in Hughes’ time.
  3. Discuss Hughes’ liberal attitude towards America.
  4. Discuss the socio-politic conditions of America in the poems of Langston Hughes.
  5. Discuss the symbolic elements of Hughes’ poems.

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Question of Previous Exam- 2020

Previous Suggestion

For 2020 Exam

  1. Discuss the major themes of Emily Dickinson’s poems.
  2. Discuss the mysticism in Dickinson’s poems. [Common]
  3. Discuss Dickinson’s poetic diction.
  4. Discuss the elegiac elements in ‘When Lilacs….Bloomed’. [Common]
  5. Discuss Whitman’s treatment of soul, self, and body based on ‘Song of Myself’.
  6. Discuss Robert Frost as a Modern Poet. [Common]
  7. Discuss the theme of alienation in Frost’s poems.
  8. Discuss Frost as a Nature poet. [Common]
  9. Discuss the anti-racial elements in Hughes’ poetry.
  10. Discuss the dark side of American society in Hughes’ time.
  11. Discuss Hughes’ liberal attitude towards America.