1) "By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed/By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed/By foreign hands thy humble rave adorned,/By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned!" This quote is from a) Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems b) The King's speech before Agincourt, in Shakespeare's "King Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii c) Milton's oeuvre d) Pope's "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. " The correct option, however much as close distractors, especially (a) and (b) may appear to be, is (d)!
2) The 'meter' used in "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright!" is a) iambic trimeter b) trochaic trimeter c) trochaic tetrameter d) none of these. The correct option is (c). There is a catalectic effect as well. That is to say, each line has seven syllables, with the final unstressed element being dropped. Hence, each line ends on a stressed syllable, thereby adding to the power and raw energy the poem is depicting.
3) "Preludes" by T.S.Eliot ends with the "notion of some infinitely gentle/infinitely suffering thing." The final conclusive image is a) three witches b) "the yellow soles of feet/in the palms of both soiled hands" c) " the worlds revolving like ancient women/gathering fuel in vacant lots" d) "trampled by insistent feet" . The correct option is (c), an ultimate image of total futility.
Pratima Agnihotri Pune
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