ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is ____
A
How nature can render someone good
B
How nature can corrupt someone
C
Eternal youth
D
A dark voyage into madness
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He was deeply interested in authentic self-expression, and his poetry was personal, intimate, spiritual, and intensely emotional. Although he had a reputation for being egotistical, he could also be a source of empathy and support for his family and close friends, notably Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse is a long narrative poem by William Wordsworth, written in 1798, but not published until 1819.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.” Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.

Detailed explanation-4: -His masterpiece is commonly considered to be The Prelude (1850), a long verse-autobiography that includes Wordsworth’s journey through revolutionary France in 1791, ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ He abandoned his early republicanism and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843.

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