UGC NET English June 2025: Solved Questions on Language and Linguistics

"Frost at Midnight" Stanza 3 Dear babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm, Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought! My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee,

The set "No Second Troy," "Lapis Lazuli," "Easter 1916," and "When You Are Old" consists entirely of poems by William Butler Yeats. Sohrab (from Death of Sohrab) is a character in Matthew Arnold's poem Sohrab and Rustum. "The Home-Coming" is often associated with Rabindranath Tagore. "The House of Life" is a sonnet sequence by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

The full title of Oliver Goldsmith's 1764 philosophical poem is "The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society." The subtitle signifies its theme: a panoramic, reflective survey of various nations and social conditions across Europe, contrasting different political systems and values. "The Citizen of the World" is a separate work (letters) by Goldsmith.

Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), a Scottish settler and abolitionist, is known as the "Father of South African English Poetry." He was the first major English-language poet to vividly describe the South African landscape, indigenous peoples, and colonial life, notably in his collection African Sketches.

George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, was first published in eight separate instalments (known as parts or books) between 1871 and 1872 by Blackwood and Sons. This utilized the common Victorian practice of serial publication for major novels.

Rudyard Kipling's short story "Mrs. Bathurst" (1904) is set in South Africa, specifically around Simon's Town, a British naval base near Cape Town. The story captures themes of imperial dislocation and mystery among naval officers in a colonial setting.

Erziehungsroman is a German literary term that translates to "novel of education" or "novel of upbringing." It is a subgenre of the Bildungsroman that specifically focuses on the protagonist's pedagogical or moral development through formal or institutional education.

The Field Marshal's Memoirs is a novel written by John Masters, known for his military and historical fiction set in British India. The other three novels (Scenes from Provincial Life, Scenes from Married Life, and Memoirs of a New Man) are all works by William Cooper (H. S. Hoff), known for his semi-autobiographical, realist fiction.