You are required to attempt all eight (8) questions provided below:
1. Q: Which term is used to describe poetry written during the Middle Ages? (10 m)
2. Q: Provide three characteristics of medieval poetry. (15 m)
3. Q: Define the term “Renaissance”. (10 m)
4. Q: What was the position of originality in the neoclassical period of English poetry? (10 m)
5. Q: Name two Romantic poets from the first generation and two from the second generation of Romanticism. (10 m)
6. Q: How did Romantic poetry differ from neoclassical poetry? (30m
7. Q: Name the event of 1832 that is generally acknowledged as the catalyst of the Victorian period. (5 m)
8. Q: What did Herbert Read in 1933 imply when he declared modernism to be “an abrupt break with all tradition … five centuries of European efforts openly abandoned”? (10 m)