TNPSC General English - Literature Appreciation Questions from Poetry
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
"Yes: quaint and curious war is!"
The speaker is
- (a)
D.H Lawrence
- (b)
Rudyard Kipling
- (c)
Thomas Hardy
- (d)
H.W Long Fellow
"Learn to labor and to wait"
Message for the youth in this lines is to learn to work
- (a)
family members
- (b)
relatives
- (c)
very close people
- (d)
A & B
"To live unknown beyond the cherished circle".'Cherished circle' means
- (a)
family members
- (b)
relatives
- (c)
very close relatives
- (d)
all the above
"You blossomed into a nascent loveliness"
'you' refers to
- (a)
kananada
- (b)
English
- (c)
French
- (d)
Hindi
"And departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of the time"........... leaves the footprint.
- (a)
The great woman
- (b)
The great man
- (c)
The child
- (d)
The Angel
"Speech that came like craft" And killed us almost, bleeding us white!" leech-craft refers to the
- (a)
Ancient Medical
- (b)
Modern Medical
- (c)
Ayurveda
- (d)
Surgery
"The world in gloom and splendour passes by"
'gloom' stand for
- (a)
Happy
- (b)
Sad
- (c)
Brave
- (d)
Peace
"Appearences can be deceptive
And to the superficial gaze"
The superficial means
- (a)
external apprearance
- (b)
first impression
- (c)
outerlook
- (d)
all the above
"The outside looks dull and grey plain looking in many ways".Plain means
- (a)
Simplicity
- (b)
Normal
- (c)
Grant
- (d)
none of these
Softly in the dusk, a women is singing to me Taking me back down the vista of years
The singer is.........
- (a)
The poet's mother
- (b)
The poet's teacher
- (c)
The poet
- (d)
None of these
"Man's little day is haste we spend and from its mercy noontide, send no glance to meet the silent end"
"Man's little day refers to"
- (a)
one day
- (b)
an entire life time
- (c)
neither
- (d)
either
"O captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack,the prize we sought is own"
Whiteman's "O captain,My captain" Commemerates the death of....................
- (a)
George washington
- (b)
Emerson
- (c)
Lincoln
- (d)
Italy
"O captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack,the prize we sought is own"
In this poem 'ship' refers to
- (a)
America
- (b)
England
- (c)
Germany
- (d)
Italy
"From fearful trip the victorship comes in with object won;"
Here 'fearful trip' refers to
- (a)
election
- (b)
struggle
- (c)
strike
- (d)
civil war
"My captain does not answer, his lips are pale" and still
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;"
"O captain,My captain is full with........ tone"
- (a)
Patriotic
- (b)
Sensitive
- (c)
romantic
- (d)
social
"If you can meet triumph and disaster"
and treat those imposters just the same;'
Here 'triumph' and 'disaster' mean
- (a)
Success and failure
- (b)
Victory and defeat
- (c)
Quality and disquality
- (d)
Advantage and disadvantage
"And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them".'Hold on'
Who helps one go on in life?
- (a)
Knowledge
- (b)
Truth
- (c)
Will power
- (d)
Tireless
"And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them".'Hold on'
Here 'them' refers to the
- (a)
Heart
- (b)
Nerve
- (c)
Muscle
- (d)
all the above
"The well was dry beside the door And so we want with a pail and can"
who is speaking these words?
- (a)
The poet
- (b)
village people
- (c)
The children
- (d)
none of these
"The barren boughs without the leaves without the birds,without the breeze"
What season was it?
- (a)
Winter
- (b)
Spring
- (c)
Autumn
- (d)
Summer
"The barren boughs without the leaves without the birds,without the breeze"
Why were the boughs without birds?
- (a)
no leaves
- (b)
no fruits
- (c)
neither
- (d)
either
But once within the wood,we paused like gnomes that hid us from the moon ready to run to hiding new
with lughter when she found us soon.
'She' refers to
- (a)
The girl
- (b)
The poet's mother
- (c)
Moon
- (d)
Bird
But once within the wood,we paused like gnomes that hid us from the moon ready to run to hiding new
with lughter when she found us soon.
'Gnomes' means
- (a)
Giant
- (b)
Dwarfs
- (c)
Angel
- (d)
Devil
"We should have sat as down to we
Right many a nipperkin!"
Nipperkin means
- (a)
glass for wine
- (b)
glass for feeding to the children
- (c)
glass for medicine
- (d)
glass for water
"Someone was before me at my water-trough
And I, like a second comer, waiting"
Someone is
- (a)
another person
- (b)
snake
- (c)
dog
- (d)
cat
"Not in a dreamy and inane abstraction
To sleep our life away"
inane abstraction-Explain
- (a)
Stupid-inactiveness Men are not in such a state
- (b)
Stupid-inactiveness Women are not in such a state
- (c)
Stupid-inactiveness Children are not in such a state
- (d)
Stupid-inactiveness the Old people are not in such a state
"Art is long, and time is fleeting"
Why is art supposed to be long?
because Art is...............
- (a)
immortal
- (b)
immovable
- (c)
immutable
- (d)
immobile
"O Winged Seeds! you crossed furrowed seas"
You crossed the forrowed seas means-
- (a)
English language has entered
- (b)
French language has entered
- (c)
Greek language has entered
- (d)
Japanese language has entered
"Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream"
The poet says about life is but an empty
- (a)
dream
- (b)
play
- (c)
sin
- (d)
danger
"Just so; my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough, although"
The poet treat his foe as
- (a)
enemy
- (b)
friend
- (c)
relation
- (d)
none of these