ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?
A
Queen Victoria’s coronation
B
Industrial Revolution
C
Women’s Education and Rights
D
Rise of Democracy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women’s university where men are forbidden to enter.

Detailed explanation-2: -This blank verse narrative poem by Tennyson (1809–1892) is a satire on the state women’s education. The narrative centres on a princess who sets up a University for women, although her plans are disrupted by the intrusion of a prince.

Detailed explanation-3: -A. K. Ramanujan’s celebrated poem, “The Last of the Princes” is a tragic commentary on the pathetic pen-picture of present plight of once-powerful princes. The law of history ever walks in its own way. In the ongoing flux of time many vast empires and many mighty emperors come and go.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many of his poems are about the temptation to give up and fall prey to pessimism, but they also extol the virtues of optimism and discuss the importance of struggling on with life. The need to persevere and continue is the central theme of In Memoriam and “Ulysses” (1833), both written after Hallam’s death.

Detailed explanation-5: -only hints and counters of basic being. The famous advice of the prince’s father-“Man for the field and woman for the hearth: / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart” (5, ll. 437-39)-explains just why Ida must pursue life away from men.

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