Friday, May 22, 2026

Soupçon MCQ Series 12

1) "If hope were dupes, fears may be liars" is a unique insight by a) Lovelace b) Marvell c) Browning d) A.C.Clough. 'd' is the right option. The famous quote is from Clough's brilliant poem, "Say not, the struggle nought availeth." 

2) The ode entitled "To a skylark" is by           a) Wordsworth b) Keats c) Shelley d)Leigh Hunt. The answer is (c), Shelley. It is one of Shelley's finest lyrical poem wherein the very stanzaic structure reflects the soaring flight of the skylark.

3) The "spiritus mundi" in Yeats' "The Second Coming" refers to a) the Byzantine Empire  b) the Indian philosophy c) a Platonic form d) 'Spiritus Mundi', also referred to as "Anima Mundi", is a work by Henry More, a seventeenth century platonist. Yeats identifiés it as the Great Memory or with the universal human consciousness.

Pratima Agnihotri                                                         Pune                                          

N.B.:                                                                                 *I must clarify that Soupçon MCQ Series is a sheer and pure academic exercise. I do NOT run any "coaching" classes. Nor am I affiliated in any way to any "teaching" institution/institute, et al. I have NO contacts whatsoever with anybody in the UGC/in the NET/SET exam committee. I am NOT associated with anybody in the publication industry, online and/or offline. I will NOT be responsible for any misuse of these publically and honourably shared bits of literary/intellectual awareness.*            Pratima Agnihotri

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