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DCE 5

Writing Poetry

Assignment for July, 2022-January, 2023

Programme: DCE

Assignment Code: DCE 5/ TMA/2022-2023

Maximum Marks:100

Attempt ALL the questions

1. (a) Distinguish between a ‘rounded ending’ and an ‘open ending’ with illustrations.

(b) What role does ‘tone’ play in the ending of a poem? 

2. Distinguish between: 

(a) Simile and Metaphor.

(b) Symbol and Image

3. Discuss the uses of colloquialisms in poetry?

4. Read the following poems carefully:

Conventions of Despair

Yes, I know all that, I should be modern.

Marry again. See strippers at the Tease.

Touch Africa. Go to the movies

Impale a six-inch spider

Under a lens. Join the TestBans, or become The outsider.

Or pay to shake my fist

(or whatever-you-call-it) at a psychoanalyst.

And when I burn

I should smile, dry-eyed,

And nurse martinis like the Marginal Man.

But, sorry, I cannot unlearn

Conventions of despair.

They have their pride

I must seek and will find

my particular hell only in my hindu mind;

must translate, and turn

till I blister and roast

for certain lives to come, ‘eye-deep’,

in those Boiling Crates of Oil, weep

iron tears for winning what I should have lost;

see Them with lidless eyes

saw precisely in two equal parts

(one of the sixty-four arts

they learn in That place)

a once-beloved head

at the naked parting of her hair.

(a) Make a list of colloquialism in the poem. Now try to replace them with ordinary words or expressions. 

(b) Is the use of the colloquial justifiable in the poem? State your reasons clearly.

5. Here are the opening lines of a poem. Can you continue the theme to make up a brief poem? 

The sea is calm tonight

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon………

6. Write a brief poem on any one of the following.

(a) Childhood

(b) Your experience of love.

(c) Nature and its appeal

(d) Friendship

7. Comment on the Metrical Structures with emphasizes on prose rhythm and verse rhythm. 

8. Write short note on any one: 

a) Use of language in poetry

b) Composition of poetry

c) Organization of language in poetry

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