ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of his poems did he collaborate on?
A
“Lucy” Lyrics
B
Micheal
C
Lyrical Ballads
D
Squap De Bop Squap
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Tintern Abbey” is William Wordsworth’s most famous poems, published in 1798. It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an Ode and dramatic monologue.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is perhaps the most famous poetic ballad, while William Wordsworth and Thomas Percy also wrote extensively with the ballad form. With the arrival of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats became the foremost ballad writer in English poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era.

Detailed explanation-4: -A ballade poem is a verse form consisting of three main stanzas and one concluding stanza called an envoi, each of which culminates in a repeated last line (referred to as the refrain line). The first three stanzas are eight-line stanzas, while the envoi is four lines.

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