ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind?
A
Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B
Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C
Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D
all but C
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -apocalyptic literature, literary genre that foretells supernaturally inspired cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term ‘apocalyptic writing’ is generally used to describe writing that aims for the condition of being prophetic, for example certain works by Blake and Yeats. The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the UK in the 1940s, taking their name from the anthology The New Apocalypse (1939), which was edited by J. F.

Detailed explanation-3: -With more than 220000 (100000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem in the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.”

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