ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“God’s in His Heaven/All’s well with the world". Who wrote the above?
A
Alfred Tennyson
B
Christina Rossetti
C
Robert Browning
D
Francis Thompson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most quoted lines from Robert Browning’s poem Pippa Passes is ‘God’s in his Heaven/All’s right with the world!

Detailed explanation-2: -His most popular poems include Porphyria’s Lover, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, the diptych Meeting at Night, the patriotic Home Thoughts from Abroad, and the children’s poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Pippa’s Song’ by Robert Browning is a sweet-seeming poem about the natural world, it’s harmony, and God in heaven. The short and simple lines of this poem depict everything “right” in the world. The season is spring, the morning is 7 o’clock and dew is on the hill. In the speaker’s eyes, everything is as it should be.

Detailed explanation-4: -The silent Porphyria after death is all he wants as he can now control her like an object and keep her for himself only, far from the world. ‘My Last Duchess’ is also one of Browning’s well-known dramatic monologues.

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