UGC NET Question paper | Quotes and Poetic lines | Paper 2 | 2018 - 2020 | Part II

 
UGC NET Question Papers (2018 – 2020)
QUOTES and POETIC LINES
PART -II
 
1.     “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,”

Work: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Writer: John Keats    

Art Form: Poem

Publication: 1820

2.   “O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
by sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,”
Work: “Ode to Psyche”

Writer: John Keats   

Art Form: Poem

Publication: 1819

3.   “A true poet and of devil’s party without knowing it”

Work: “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”

Writer:  William Blake  

Art Form: Poetry

Publication: 1868

4.   “What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it.”

Work: “Henry IV Part I”

Writer:  William Shakespeare

Speaker: Falstaff

Art Form: Drama

Publication: 1613

5.   “Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water”

Work: “The Duchess of Malfi”

Writer:  John Webster

Speaker: Bosola

Art Form: Drama

Publication: 1623

6.   “The chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side”

Work: “The Importance of Being Earnest”    

Writer:  Oscar Wilde

Speaker: Miss Prism   

Art Form: Drama

Publication: 1895

7.   “Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and that we are actually alive”

Work: “Look Back in Anger”    

Writer: John Osborne    

Speaker:   Jimmy Porter

Art Form: Drama

Publication: 1956

8.   “It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another, as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not,”

Work: “The plague”    

Writer: Albert Camus   

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1947

9.   “We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single “theological” meaning but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash…. Literature”

Work: “The Death of the Author”    

Writer: Roland Barthes    

Art Form: Essay

Publication: 1967

10. “Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? I present to you History, the fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama.”

Work: “Waterland”    

Writer: Graham Swift   

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1983

11. “He put Clarissa Harlowe back in the bookcase”

Work: “The Human Factor”    

Writer: Graham Greene    

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1978

12. “In yonder grave a Druid lies”

Work: “Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson”    

Writer: William Collins      

Art Form: Poem

Publication: 1749

13. “Not even a sense of loss to feed on”

Work: “A Doll’s House”    

Writer: Henrik Ibsen   

Speaker:  Mrs. Linde

Art Form: Drama

Publication: 1879

14.“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the Millionth time the reality of experience to forge …….. April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead”

Work: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”    

Writer: James Joyce 

Speaker: Stephen Dedalus 

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1916

15. “Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?”
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how
Choose
Between this Africa and the English
Tongue I love?”

Work: “A Far Cry from Africa”    

Writer: Derek Walcott    

Art Form: Poem

Publication: 1962

16.“The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow
Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart”

Work: “Sad Steps”    

Writer: Philip Larkin    

Art Form: Poem

Publication: 1974

17. “I am the woman they give dead women’s clothes to”

Work: “The Book of Night Women”    

Writer:  Marlon James      

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 2009

18. “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else”

Work: “David copperfield”    

Writer: Charles Dickens    

Speaker: David 

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1849

19.  “….the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth”

Work: “Gulliver’s Travels”    

Writer: Jonathan Swift   

Speaker:  The King of Brobdingnag

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1726

20. “I address these lines written in India-to my relatives in England.”

Work: “The Moonstone”    

Writer:  Wilkie Collins  

Art Form: Novel

Publication: 1868