ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
A
Ode to Nightingale
B
Ode on Indolence
C
Ode to Melancholy
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A partner in your sorrow’s mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.

Detailed explanation-2: -As in “The Eve of St. Agnes, ” John Keats addresses the transience of a beauty in “Ode On Melancholy.” He speaks of “Joy” that turns to poison. Even while it exists, Beauty is an “aching Pleasure, ” for it is marked by inevitable decline.

Detailed explanation-3: -Melancholy, Beauty, and Impermanence. John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” is a rich and complex poem that offers a way of responding to deep despair. Put simply, it encourages people to embrace sadness, not by seeking to end or soften it, but by living within it-that is, by actively acknowledging its presence.

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