Modern Poetry

1. D.H. lawrence’s novels are located in: Mining Country of Nottingham.
2. Which novel of D.H. Lawrence has autobiographical overtones? Sons and Lovers.
3. D.H. Lawrence called one of his novels “Thought Adventure”: Kangaroo
4. D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is generally called an obscene novel. Why? Its theme is sexual experience.
5. one of Lawrence’s novels was proscribe on the charge of obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
6. What is Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia? A Travel Book
7. Why is the phrase ‘religion of the Blood’ associated with D.H. Lawrence? Because several of his novels expose sexual experience.
8. One of Lawrence’s novels is now availabe in its expurgated form, and not in its original form: Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
9. What is Lawrence’s Phoenix? A collection of Prose articles
10. What is Lawrence’s The Mortal Coil? A Collection of stories.
11. What is the name of Lady Chatterley’s husband? Sir Clifford.
12. What is the name of the man with whom Lady Chatterley has illicit love? Mellors.
13. Tom and Lydia are central characters in which novel? The Rainbow
14. In which novel do Mr. and Mrs. Morel appears as important character: Sons and Lovers.
15. In Sons and Lovers Mr. Morel appears in ‘red and black’ colour. What do these colours symbolise? His sensual vitality.
16. What is the basic theme of Lawrence’s Rainbow? The balancing of instinct and intellect.
17. England, My England is Lawrence’s A collection of stories
18. Fantasia and Unconscious is Lawrence’s: A study of human psychology.
19. novels by Lawrence: The Lost Girl, Aaron’s Rod, kangaroo

W.B. Yeats

1. W.B Yeats was a: Anglo-Irish poet.
2. W.b Yeats has written a poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Where is Innisfree situated? It is situated in Lough Gill
3. What is Yeat’s The Land of Heart’s Desire? A Drama in One Act.
4. What is Yeats ideas of Good and evil? A Collection of Essays.
5. Countless Cathleen is a drama written by Yeats: In prose.
6. What is Yeats’s Reveries Over Childhood and Youth? An autobiographical treatise
7. Poems by Yeats: Esther Waters, Palicio, the Day’s Work, The Second coming
8. ” … for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.” The Lake Isle of Innisfree
9. yeats poem When You Are Old is addressed to: His beloved Maud Gonne
10. what is the theme of Sailing to Byzantium? Eternity of Life.
11. The symbols used by W.b. Yeats are difficult to understand because: They are derived from obscure Irish mythology
12. “My fuftieth year had come and gone, / I sat a solitary man, / In a crowded London Shop, / an open book and empty cup/ On the marble table top.” From which poem of Yeats these lines are taken: Vacillation
13. “Wisdom is the property of the dead,/ A something incomparable with life and power/ A property of the living.” From which poem: A Prayer for Old Age.
14. Yeats primarily is a Symbolist.
15. “Through winter time we call on spring,/ And through the spring on Summer call,/ And when the abounding hedges ring/ Declare that winter’s beast of all.” lines from: The Wheel.
16. What is Yeats’s In the Seven Woods? A Collection of poems
17. Yeats has written a poem “His Wishes His Beloved Were Dead.” What is the mood inwhich this poem is written? A mood of weariness.
18. What is Yeats’s The Tower? A series of interlocked poems.
19. Yeats’s poem Coole park is related with the poet’s association with: lady Gregory.

W.H. Auden