ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

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Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean?
A
Born to be free
B
Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
C
Of royal birth
D
Wearing purple robes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem serves as an allegory about a king “in the olden time long ago” who is afraid of evil forces that threaten him and his palace, foreshadowing impending doom. As part of “The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe said, “I mean to imply a mind haunted by phantoms-a disordered brain” referring to Roderick Usher.

Detailed explanation-2: -’The Haunted Palace’ by Edgar Allan Poe is a six stanza poem that is divided into sets of eight lines. These lines loosely conform to a rhyme scheme of ababcdcd, changing from stanza to stanza.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first four stanzas are about the happy past, while the last two are about the miserable present.

Detailed explanation-4: -The door of the palace represents the mouth of a human head. Spirits, who symbolize human speech, come streaming steadily out of the door. Just like the windows, the door is one of the ways that we can get a sense of what is happening inside the palace-head.

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