UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit II- Poetry
UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit II- Poetry
Unit – II: Poetry
1. Who is considered the father of English poetry and author of The Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer.
2. What 14-line lyric poem structure consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet is known as the English sonnet? Shakespearean (or Elizabethan) Sonnet.
3. Which 14-line poem structure divided into an octave and a sestet is known as the Italian sonnet? Petrarchan Sonnet.
4. Who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet form into English poetry during the 16th century? Sir Thomas Wyatt.
5. Who pioneered blank verse in English poetry through his translation of Virgil's Aeneid? Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
6. What is the standard unrhymed meter of five iambic feet per line used extensively in English verse? Blank verse.
7. Who wrote the Elizabethan allegorical epic poem The Faerie Queene? Edmund Spenser.
8. What name is given to the nine-line stanza scheme invented by Spenser with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc? Spenserian stanza.
9. Which Elizabethan sonnet sequence features the poems of Astrophel and Stella? Sir Philip Sidney.
10. Who wrote the metaphysical poem 'The Flea'? John Donne.
11. What 17th-century poetic movement is characterized by complex conceits, intellectual wit, and paradoxes, pioneered by John Donne? Metaphysical poetry.
12. Who wrote the famous metaphysical poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'? John Donne.
13. Which Cavalier poet wrote the famous lines 'Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage'? Richard Lovelace.
14. What group of 17th-century poets associated with the court of King Charles I wrote graceful, lighthearted verses celebrating love and loyalty? Cavalier poets.
15. Who authored the monumental epic poem Paradise Lost? John Milton.
16. In which verse form is Paradise Lost written? Blank verse.
17. Who wrote the neoclassical mock-heroic poem The Rape of the Lock? Alexander Pope.
18. What poetic meter consisting of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines was perfected by Alexander Pope? Heroic couplet.
19. Which 18th-century pre-Romantic poet wrote 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'? Thomas Gray.
20. What poetic movement of the mid-to-late 18th century anticipated Romanticism by focusing on melancholy, graveyards, and rustic isolation? Graveyard Poets (or Churchyard Poets).
21. Who wrote the visionary pre-Romantic collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience? William Blake.
22. Which two poets jointly published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, officially launching English Romanticism? William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
23. Who wrote the long autobiographical Romantic poem The Prelude? William Wordsworth.
24. Which Romantic poet wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
25. Who wrote the visionary orientalist dream poem 'Kubla Khan'? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
26. Which second-generation Romantic poet wrote the epic verse drama Prometheus Unbound? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
27. Who wrote the famous Romantic ode 'Ode to the West Wind'? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
28. Which poet wrote 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'To Autumn'? John Keats.
29. What type of lyrical poem, popularized by Keats and Wordsworth, is typically structured as an address to a particular subject or object? Ode.
30. Who wrote the narrative poem Don Juan? Lord Byron.
31. What form of poetry does Lord Byron's Don Juan utilize, consisting of eight-line stanzas with an ABABABCC rhyme scheme? Ottava rima.
32. Which Victorian poet laureate wrote the elegiac long poem In Memoriam? Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
33. Who wrote the dramatic monologue My Last Duchess? Robert Browning.
34. What poetic form features a single speaker addressing a silent auditor, revealing their inner psychological state? Dramatic monologue.
35. Who wrote the melancholic Victorian poem 'Dover Beach'? Matthew Arnold.
36. Which Pre-Raphaelite poet wrote The Blessed Damozel? Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
37. Who wrote the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky'? Lewis Carroll.
38. Which Victorian poet experimented heavily with 'curtal sonnets' and sprung rhythm in poems like 'The Windhover'? Gerard Manley Hopkins.
39. What poetic meter developed by Hopkins uses a variable number of accented syllables while ignoring unaccented ones? Sprung rhythm.
40. Who wrote the post-Victorian cynical and colloquial poems collected in Wessex Poems? Thomas Hardy.
41. Which Irish modernist poet wrote 'The Second Coming' and 'Sailing to Byzantium'? W.B. Yeats.
42. What modernist long poem by T.S. Eliot published in 1922 captured post-war cultural fragmentation and disillusionment? The Waste Land.
43. Who wrote the modernist poem The Waste Land? T.S. Eliot.
44. Which war poet wrote 'Dulce et Decorum Est' during World War I? Wilfred Owen.
45. Who wrote the World War I poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'? Wilfred Owen.
46. Which war poet wrote 'The Soldier' ('If I should die, think only this of me')? Rupert Brooke.
47. Who wrote the 20th-century sequence of poems titled Four Quartets? T.S. Eliot.
48. Which modernist poet wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? T.S. Eliot.
49. Who wrote the modernist poem The Cantos? Ezra Pound.
50. What 20th-century modernist poetic movement advocated for clear, precise, and hard imagery, championed by Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)? Imagism.
51. Who wrote the confessional poem 'Daddy'? Sylvia Plath.
52. What 20th-century poetic mode, associated with Plath and Robert Lowell, centers on deeply personal and taboo private traumas? Confessional poetry.
53. Who wrote the landmark confessional poetry collection Life Studies? Robert Lowell.
54. Which Welsh poet wrote the lyrical and emotional masterpiece 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? Dylan Thomas.
55. Who wrote the post-war poem 'The Church Going'? Philip Larkin.
56. Which movement of 1950s British poets, including Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, reacted against modernist obscurity in favor of clarity and traditional form? The Movement.
57. Who wrote the collection Crow and was a prominent British nature and mythic poet? Ted Hughes.
58. Which Northern Irish poet wrote 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging'? Seamus Heaney.
59. Who wrote the post-colonial poetry collection Midsummer and won the Nobel Prize in Literature? Derek Walcott.
60. Which African American poet wrote 'I, Too' and 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'? Langston Hughes.
61. What major artistic and cultural movement of the 1920s centered on African American literary expression, featuring poets like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay? Harlem Renaissance.
62. Who wrote the Harlem Renaissance sonnet 'If We Must Die'? Claude McKay.
63. Which American modernist poet wrote 'The Red Wheelbarrow'? William Carlos Williams.
64. Who wrote the long modernist poem Paterson? William Carlos Williams.
65. Which American poet wrote 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'? Robert Frost.
66. Who wrote the experimental, lowercase-heavy modernist poetry celebrating individuality like 'anyone lived in a pretty how town'? E.E. Cummings.
67. Which American poet wrote 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'? Wallace Stevens.
68. Who wrote the modern feminist revisionist poetry collection Diving into the Wreck? Adrienne Rich.
69. Which Caribbean-British poet wrote Island Man? Grace Nichols.
70. Who wrote the post-colonial poetry collection Rights of Passage? Kamau Brathwaite.
71. What poetic form consists of nineteen lines with two repeating rhymes and two refrains, famously used by Dylan Thomas in 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? Villanelle.
72. What fixed Japanese poetic form consists of three phrases with a 5-7-5 syllable structure? Haiku.
73. Who was the master Edo-period Japanese haiku poet who revolutionized the form? Matsuo Bashō.
74. What is the term for a song-like narrative poem that tells a story, often structured in four-line stanzas (quatrains)? Ballad.
75. What type of unwritten ballad transmitted across generations without a known author is known as ? Popular Ballad (or Folk Ballad).
76. Who wrote the 19th-century romantic narrative poem The Eve of St. Agnes? John Keats.
77. Which Victorian poet wrote the narrative poem sequence Idylls of the King concerning King Arthur? Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
78. What term refers to a poem expressing grief or mourning for someone who has died, such as Milton's Lycidas? Elegy.
79. Which John Milton pastoral elegy mourns the death of his friend Edward King? Lycidas.
80. Who wrote the classical pastoral elegy Adonais to mourn the death of John Keats? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
81. What term describes a short poem expressing personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person? Lyric poetry.
82. Who wrote the 17th-century devotional metaphysical poetry collection The Temple? George Herbert.
83. Which metaphysical poet wrote the shaped or pattern poem 'Easter Wings'? George Herbert.
84. Who wrote the neoclassical poem London (1738) before William Blake wrote his own visionary poem of the same name? Samuel Johnson.
85. Which Romantic poet wrote the long philosophical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage? Lord Byron.
86. Who wrote the gothic narrative poem Christabel? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
87. Which Victorian poet wrote the dramatic verse narrative Aurora Leigh? Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
88. What term describes a poem that tells a story, containing plot elements such as characters, setting, and conflict? Narrative poetry.
89. Who wrote the modernist poem 'The Second Coming'? W.B. Yeats.
90. Which American poet wrote the epic historical poem The Bridge? Hart Crane.
91. Who wrote the modernist long poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley? Ezra Pound.
92. Which modern American poet wrote The Waste Land editorial notes alongside free verse masterpieces like Personae? Ezra Pound.
93. Who wrote the post-modern minimalist poetry collection The World Does Not Require You? Rion Amilcar Scott.
94. Which 20th-century Scottish modernist poet wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle? Hugh MacDiarmid.
95. What poetic term describes the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within stressed syllables? Assonance.
96. What poetic device features the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words? Alliteration.
97. What is the primary metric foundation of Old English poetry, characterized by four stressed syllables and a medial pause (caesura)? Alliterative verse.
98. What is the famous anonymous Old English epic poem detailing a hero's battles against Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon? Beowulf.
99. Who translated Beowulf into modern English prose ? J. R. R. Tolkien
100. What medieval English alliterative poem features the encounter between Sir Gawain and a mysterious green knight? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Unit – II: Poetry
1. Who is considered the father of English poetry and author of The Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer.
2. What 14-line lyric poem structure consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet is known as the English sonnet? Shakespearean (or Elizabethan) Sonnet.
3. Which 14-line poem structure divided into an octave and a sestet is known as the Italian sonnet? Petrarchan Sonnet.
4. Who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet form into English poetry during the 16th century? Sir Thomas Wyatt.
5. Who pioneered blank verse in English poetry through his translation of Virgil's Aeneid? Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
6. What is the standard unrhymed meter of five iambic feet per line used extensively in English verse? Blank verse.
7. Who wrote the Elizabethan allegorical epic poem The Faerie Queene? Edmund Spenser.
8. What name is given to the nine-line stanza scheme invented by Spenser with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc? Spenserian stanza.
9. Which Elizabethan sonnet sequence features the poems of Astrophel and Stella? Sir Philip Sidney.
10. Who wrote the metaphysical poem 'The Flea'? John Donne.
11. What 17th-century poetic movement is characterized by complex conceits, intellectual wit, and paradoxes, pioneered by John Donne? Metaphysical poetry.
12. Who wrote the famous metaphysical poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'? John Donne.
13. Which Cavalier poet wrote the famous lines 'Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage'? Richard Lovelace.
14. What group of 17th-century poets associated with the court of King Charles I wrote graceful, lighthearted verses celebrating love and loyalty? Cavalier poets.
15. Who authored the monumental epic poem Paradise Lost? John Milton.
16. In which verse form is Paradise Lost written? Blank verse.
17. Who wrote the neoclassical mock-heroic poem The Rape of the Lock? Alexander Pope.
18. What poetic meter consisting of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines was perfected by Alexander Pope? Heroic couplet.
19. Which 18th-century pre-Romantic poet wrote 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'? Thomas Gray.
20. What poetic movement of the mid-to-late 18th century anticipated Romanticism by focusing on melancholy, graveyards, and rustic isolation? Graveyard Poets (or Churchyard Poets).
21. Who wrote the visionary pre-Romantic collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience? William Blake.
22. Which two poets jointly published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, officially launching English Romanticism? William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
23. Who wrote the long autobiographical Romantic poem The Prelude? William Wordsworth.
24. Which Romantic poet wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
25. Who wrote the visionary orientalist dream poem 'Kubla Khan'? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
26. Which second-generation Romantic poet wrote the epic verse drama Prometheus Unbound? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
27. Who wrote the famous Romantic ode 'Ode to the West Wind'? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
28. Which poet wrote 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'To Autumn'? John Keats.
29. What type of lyrical poem, popularized by Keats and Wordsworth, is typically structured as an address to a particular subject or object? Ode.
30. Who wrote the narrative poem Don Juan? Lord Byron.
31. What form of poetry does Lord Byron's Don Juan utilize, consisting of eight-line stanzas with an ABABABCC rhyme scheme? Ottava rima.
32. Which Victorian poet laureate wrote the elegiac long poem In Memoriam? Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
33. Who wrote the dramatic monologue My Last Duchess? Robert Browning.
34. What poetic form features a single speaker addressing a silent auditor, revealing their inner psychological state? Dramatic monologue.
35. Who wrote the melancholic Victorian poem 'Dover Beach'? Matthew Arnold.
36. Which Pre-Raphaelite poet wrote The Blessed Damozel? Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
37. Who wrote the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky'? Lewis Carroll.
38. Which Victorian poet experimented heavily with 'curtal sonnets' and sprung rhythm in poems like 'The Windhover'? Gerard Manley Hopkins.
39. What poetic meter developed by Hopkins uses a variable number of accented syllables while ignoring unaccented ones? Sprung rhythm.
40. Who wrote the post-Victorian cynical and colloquial poems collected in Wessex Poems? Thomas Hardy.
41. Which Irish modernist poet wrote 'The Second Coming' and 'Sailing to Byzantium'? W.B. Yeats.
42. What modernist long poem by T.S. Eliot published in 1922 captured post-war cultural fragmentation and disillusionment? The Waste Land.
43. Who wrote the modernist poem The Waste Land? T.S. Eliot.
44. Which war poet wrote 'Dulce et Decorum Est' during World War I? Wilfred Owen.
45. Who wrote the World War I poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'? Wilfred Owen.
46. Which war poet wrote 'The Soldier' ('If I should die, think only this of me')? Rupert Brooke.
47. Who wrote the 20th-century sequence of poems titled Four Quartets? T.S. Eliot.
48. Which modernist poet wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? T.S. Eliot.
49. Who wrote the modernist poem The Cantos? Ezra Pound.
50. What 20th-century modernist poetic movement advocated for clear, precise, and hard imagery, championed by Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)? Imagism.
51. Who wrote the confessional poem 'Daddy'? Sylvia Plath.
52. What 20th-century poetic mode, associated with Plath and Robert Lowell, centers on deeply personal and taboo private traumas? Confessional poetry.
53. Who wrote the landmark confessional poetry collection Life Studies? Robert Lowell.
54. Which Welsh poet wrote the lyrical and emotional masterpiece 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? Dylan Thomas.
55. Who wrote the post-war poem 'The Church Going'? Philip Larkin.
56. Which movement of 1950s British poets, including Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, reacted against modernist obscurity in favor of clarity and traditional form? The Movement.
57. Who wrote the collection Crow and was a prominent British nature and mythic poet? Ted Hughes.
58. Which Northern Irish poet wrote 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging'? Seamus Heaney.
59. Who wrote the post-colonial poetry collection Midsummer and won the Nobel Prize in Literature? Derek Walcott.
60. Which African American poet wrote 'I, Too' and 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'? Langston Hughes.
61. What major artistic and cultural movement of the 1920s centered on African American literary expression, featuring poets like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay? Harlem Renaissance.
62. Who wrote the Harlem Renaissance sonnet 'If We Must Die'? Claude McKay.
63. Which American modernist poet wrote 'The Red Wheelbarrow'? William Carlos Williams.
64. Who wrote the long modernist poem Paterson? William Carlos Williams.
65. Which American poet wrote 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'? Robert Frost.
66. Who wrote the experimental, lowercase-heavy modernist poetry celebrating individuality like 'anyone lived in a pretty how town'? E.E. Cummings.
67. Which American poet wrote 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'? Wallace Stevens.
68. Who wrote the modern feminist revisionist poetry collection Diving into the Wreck? Adrienne Rich.
69. Which Caribbean-British poet wrote Island Man? Grace Nichols.
70. Who wrote the post-colonial poetry collection Rights of Passage? Kamau Brathwaite.
71. What poetic form consists of nineteen lines with two repeating rhymes and two refrains, famously used by Dylan Thomas in 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? Villanelle.
72. What fixed Japanese poetic form consists of three phrases with a 5-7-5 syllable structure? Haiku.
73. Who was the master Edo-period Japanese haiku poet who revolutionized the form? Matsuo Bashō.
74. What is the term for a song-like narrative poem that tells a story, often structured in four-line stanzas (quatrains)? Ballad.
75. What type of unwritten ballad transmitted across generations without a known author is known as ? Popular Ballad (or Folk Ballad).
76. Who wrote the 19th-century romantic narrative poem The Eve of St. Agnes? John Keats.
77. Which Victorian poet wrote the narrative poem sequence Idylls of the King concerning King Arthur? Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
78. What term refers to a poem expressing grief or mourning for someone who has died, such as Milton's Lycidas? Elegy.
79. Which John Milton pastoral elegy mourns the death of his friend Edward King? Lycidas.
80. Who wrote the classical pastoral elegy Adonais to mourn the death of John Keats? Percy Bysshe Shelley.
81. What term describes a short poem expressing personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person? Lyric poetry.
82. Who wrote the 17th-century devotional metaphysical poetry collection The Temple? George Herbert.
83. Which metaphysical poet wrote the shaped or pattern poem 'Easter Wings'? George Herbert.
84. Who wrote the neoclassical poem London (1738) before William Blake wrote his own visionary poem of the same name? Samuel Johnson.
85. Which Romantic poet wrote the long philosophical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage? Lord Byron.
86. Who wrote the gothic narrative poem Christabel? Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
87. Which Victorian poet wrote the dramatic verse narrative Aurora Leigh? Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
88. What term describes a poem that tells a story, containing plot elements such as characters, setting, and conflict? Narrative poetry.
89. Who wrote the modernist poem 'The Second Coming'? W.B. Yeats.
90. Which American poet wrote the epic historical poem The Bridge? Hart Crane.
91. Who wrote the modernist long poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley? Ezra Pound.
92. Which modern American poet wrote The Waste Land editorial notes alongside free verse masterpieces like Personae? Ezra Pound.
93. Who wrote the post-modern minimalist poetry collection The World Does Not Require You? Rion Amilcar Scott.
94. Which 20th-century Scottish modernist poet wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle? Hugh MacDiarmid.
95. What poetic term describes the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within stressed syllables? Assonance.
96. What poetic device features the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words? Alliteration.
97. What is the primary metric foundation of Old English poetry, characterized by four stressed syllables and a medial pause (caesura)? Alliterative verse.
98. What is the famous anonymous Old English epic poem detailing a hero's battles against Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon? Beowulf.
99. Who translated Beowulf into modern English prose ? J. R. R. Tolkien
100. What medieval English alliterative poem features the encounter between Sir Gawain and a mysterious green knight? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
