ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff?”
A
John Milton
B
John Keats
C
P.B Shelley
D
William Wordsworth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Women, Wine, and Snuff” by John Keats.

Detailed explanation-2: -Surely we can hear this Huntian influence in the little verses Keats scribbled on the cover of Stephens’s lecture notebook: “Give me women, wine and snuff, / Until I cry out ‘hold, enough!

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia, ” “The Eve of St. Agnes, ” the great odes (“On Indolence, ” “On a Grecian Urn, ” “To Psyche, ” “To a Nightingale, ” “On Melancholy, ” and “To Autumn”), and the two unfinished versions of an epic on Hyperion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poet John Keats wrote with great insight and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature. His famous poems include ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’.

Detailed explanation-5: -transient sensation or passion / enduring art. dream or vision / reality. joy / melancholy. the ideal / the real. mortal / immortal. life / death. separation / connection. being immersed in passion / desiring to escape passion. 21-Sept-2010

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