IGNOU DCE 5 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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DCE 5 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

DCE 05

WRITING POETRY

Max. Marks: 100

Programme: DCE

Assignment Code: DCE 5/TMA/1/2025-2026

Answer the following questions.

1. Given below is the poem by Wordsworth. The speaking voice in this poem is that of the poet. Change the persona in this poem to the reaper herself and rewrite the poem.

The Solitary Reaper

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! for the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound.

 

No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands:

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings? -

 

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far-off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to-day?

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,

That has been, and may be again?

 

Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang

As if her song could have no ending;

I saw her singing at her work,

And o'er the sickle bending; —

I listened, motionless and still;

And, as I mounted up the hill,

The music in my heart I bore,

Long after it was heard no more.

 

2. Read the following poem by Robert Herrick (1648).

Comment on the rounded ending of the above poem. Attempt an open ending for the same.

Upon Ben Jonson

Here lies Jonson with the rest

of the poets; but the best.

Reader, would'st thou more have known?

Ask his story, not this stone.

That will speak that this can't tell

of his glory. So farewell.

3. Discuss the importance and effect of ENDING while writing a poem.

4. Write short notes on Simile and Metaphor. Give examples.

5. Explain the following:

a) rhyme

b) scansion.

6. Explain the English Meter. Give examples.

7. Discuss the various kinds of structures of a poem.

8. Climax is the tensest moment in a poem. Discuss.

9. The problem with poetry on public themes is that it may deteriorate into mere rhetoric if it lacks personal and emotional involvement. Comment.

10. Discuss the possible uses of colloquialisms in poetry.

 

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