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1. How Did the Camel Men Behave with the Magi? 2. What Does Paper-VIII T.S.Eliot Very short question:- 1. How did the camel men behave with the Magi? 2. What does the 'fog' in 'Marina' signify? 3. How does the street look in section I of preludes with evening coming on? 4. Name the poem where every street lamp beats like a fatalistic drum. 5. What is meant by 'death's other kingdom' in ''The Hollow Men''? 6. What does the phrase 'sunless dry geraniums' suggest in 'Rhapsody'? 7. Explain the symbolic significance of the 'three trees on the low sky' in'' The Journey of the Magi''? 8. Whose eyes may reappear as the 'multifoliate rose' to the hollowmen ? 9. What do the Magi mean by a 'cold coming'? 10. Who is the speaker in 'Marina'? 11. 'They flickerded against the ceiling' -what is being referred to as 'they'? 12. What does the cat in the gutter do in 'Rhapsody'? 13. Who is the Old Guy in the epigraph of ''The Hollow Men''? 14. Whose soul is stretched tight accros the skies? 15. What are the deliberate disguises of the Hollow - Men? 16. Why does the women's eye look like a 'crooked pin' in ''Rhapsody''? 17. What did the Magi witness in the tavern? 18. In the opening lines of 'Burnt Norton'', how are the past and future related to the present? 19. What do the hollow-men dare not to do? 20. What is the last twist of the knife in 'Rhapsody'? 21. Who are those who have crossed with direct eyes in ''''The Hollow Men''? 22. How is the woman presented in lamplight in 'Rhapsody'? 23. Whose 'insistent feet' trample the soul in ''Preludes Section IV''? 24. What does the image of hands 'raising dingy shades ' in Preludes signify? 25. Comment on the significance of the 'lonely cab horse' in the first section of ''Preludes''? 26. What is the 'tumid -river' in ''The Hollow Men''? 27. What do the street lights drum up in Rhapsody on a windy Night? 28. Why are prayers formed to broken stone by the Hollow Men? 29. Why do the Magi regret their 'summer palaces on slopes' and other pleasures? 30. Why is the rose garden called 'our first world' in ''Burnt Norton''? 31. Why does the person waking up in section III of Preludes have 'yellow soles' and 'soiled hands'? 32. What change did Eliot make in the opening rhyme of section V of the Hollow Men and why? 33. What do the burnt out ends of smoky days in preludes signify? 34. How is the woman's eye described in the second stanza of Rhapsody on a Windy Night? 35. Why was it such a long journey for the Magi? 36. What does the 'twilight kingdom' in the Hollow Man stand for? 37. Where did the Magi come to at dawn? 38. What does the broken spring in a factory yard in Rhapsody on a Windy Night stand for? 39. Whose eyes do the Hollow men dare not meet? 40. In section I of Burnt Norton, what does the bird say about reality? Shorts questions:- 1. What do the Magi wish to 'set down'? 2. Comment on the ending of ''Preludes''? 3. What does Eliot mean by 'style of contenment' in 'Marina'? 4. What are the memories recalled by the 'whispers and small laughter' in Marina? 5. What another death do the Magi desire? 6. How does morning come to consciousness in ''Preludes''? 7. What happened when the Magi were sleeping in snatches? 8. What is meant by ' certain uncertainties'? 9. What does the 'prickly pear' rhyme perform in the scheme of ''The Hollow Men''? 10. How are the floors of memory dissolved in the 'Rhapsody'? 11. What is the 'tumis river'? Why are hollow-men gathered on its bank? 12. Cite two images that invoke the idea of emptiness in 'Rhapsody'. 13. What happened to the stone images in the cactus land? 14. Why are the images of eyes and crab coupled in the 'Rhapsody'? 15. What did the Magi learn at the tavern? 16. How is this grace dissolved in place in 'Marina'? 17. Why are there no eyes in ' this valley of dying stars'? 18. What doubts and regrets did the Magi experiences in route? 19. Comment on the use of Irony in Section II of preludes. 20. Why are the lines of prayer truncated in the end of the ''The Hollow Men''? 21. What happens at four o'clock in 'Rhapsody'? 22. What is the state of the speaker's ship in 'Marina'? 23. Why does 'this Birth' and death become similar to the Magi? 24. What doe sthe blackened street /Impatient to assume the world signify? 25. What did the Magi see when they 'came down to temperate valley'? 26. What is heard in the rose gurden in ''Burnt Norton''? What does it stand for? 27. What are the hollomen stuffed with? 28. Explain the last two lines of the 'Preludes'? 29. How much is in'' The Journey of the Magi'' autobiographical? 30. Why does Eliot bring in a crowd of twisted things in ''Rhapsody''? 31. Why do the Magi call the vent they travelled for ''satisfactory''? 32. How are the moon and the memory linked in 'Rhapsody'? 33. Why do the holowmen use both singular and plural proonouns? 34. How is the winter evening characterised in section -I of ''Preludes''? 35. Why does the street hardly understand its own vision? 36. What happens in the dry pool in section I, ''Burnt Norton''? 37. 'Midnight shakes the memory / As a madman shakes a dead geranium'= Explain. 38. What are the deliberate disguises of the Hollow Men? 39. In section III, what sordid images come to the waking consciousness? 40. What do the voice 'singing in our ears', tell the Magi? Whose are the voices? 41. What is the 'figure of the ten stairs', alluded to in section V of Burnt Norton? 42. Why is the old guy mentioned at the dead of The Hollow Men? 43. Why should the Magi be 'glad of another death'? 44. Why do the words of prayer fail in section V of The Hollow Men? 45. Why do the Magi fell this birth was like death for them? 46. ''To be conscious is not to be in time''- explain briefly. 47. How is time presented in ''Burnt Norton''? 48. Are the ' three trees on the low sky' and ' an old white horse' seen by the Magi, significant in any way? 49. How do the lunar incantations work upon memory in Eliot's Rhapsody? 50. In Rhapsody in a Windy Night, what is the function of the street lamp? 51. What feelings does the morning inspire in 'Preludes'? 52. Explain the final image of Preludes in your own words. 53. How is 'Mistah Kurtz' related to 'The Hollow Men''? 54. How do the hollow men describe themselves? 55. What is the shadow in section V of The Hollow Men? 56. In The Hollow Men , whose are the eyes called ''multifoliate rose'' and why? Short Essay type Question:- 1. What is the significance of the Becket's sermon? 2. Why are the most -poets of our civilization difficult? 3. Comment on the role of First Temptor. 4. What are the problems of considering the 'metaphysical' poets as a school? 5. What fears do canterbury women harbour about Thomas? 6. What does Eliot mean by 'telescoping of images and multiplied associations? Answer with reference to the text. 7. How does the first Knight justify the muder of Thomas? 8. What is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet? 9. Why is the third temptation most difficult for Thomas? 10. What does Eliot say about the poetry of John Donne? 11. Asses the role of the other priests in ''Murder in the Cathedral''? 12. How does Eliot analyse Dr. Johnson's poetry? 13. What accusations do the knights level at Thomas? 14. Does Eliot consider a revival of poetic association of sensibility possible in the present era? 15. How does Thomas Becket react to the Chorus's first speech? 16. What according to Eliot were the roles of Milton and Dryden in poetic history? 17. How doe Eliot use images from the nature ''Murder in the Cathedral''? 18. What is the relevance of the 'metaphysical poetry' of the seventeenth century in Eliot's own time, as he says? 19. What are the first two temptation set before Thomas? 20. How does Eliot place the metaphysical poets in literary history? 21. What are the rhetorical figures used in the knights' final speeches to bring out their natures? 22. What was Jonson's impeachment of the metaphysical poets? What caused it? 23. Explain the central image of all centre of the turning wheel in relation to martyrdom. 24. What does the Eliot have to say about the grouping of 'so -called' metaphysical poets? 25. Asses Thomas Becket's relation to the fourth Tempter in ''Murder in the Cathedral''. 26. What according to Eliot , are the salient qualities of the 'Metaphysical poets'? 27. Critically analyse opening speech of the women of canterbury? 28. What is Eliot's opinion of Jonson and Chapman? 29. How does Thomas describe the true martyre in his Christmas sermon? 30. How has the phrase 'metaphysical poetry' been a term of abuse? 31. What mechanism of sensibility did the poet of 17th century possess? What is the result of its loss? 32. What charges do the Knights bring against Thomas? 33. How does the Interlude of Murder in the Cathedral important to the thematic pattern of the play? 34. ''Is there no way , in my souls sickness, Dows not lead to damnation in pride''? What is the crisis the speaker alludes to? Discuss crisis briefly.
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