ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Queen Mab, a fairy, descends in a chariot to a dwelling where Ianthe is sleeping on a couch. Queen Mab detaches Ianthe’s spirit or soul from her sleeping body and transports it on a celestial tour to Queen Mab’s palace at the edge of the universe. Queen Mab interprets, analyses, and explains Ianthe’s dreams.

Detailed explanation-2: -He writes: Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Shelley had certain inherent tendencies which made him a rebel and a reformer. From his very early life he marked an antagonism between himself and the established order of society. ‘Ode to the West Wind’, shows Shelley’s revolutionary zeal and his ideas of social reform.