List of top English Questions

Take note also that the apostrophe is not used for indicating the possessive form: loves philosophy
Examples from other poems from this period:
• How neatly doe we give one onely name
• To parents issue and the sunnes bright starre!
Notice the adjectives in phrases such as ‘infant loves’ and ‘brave clearnesse’. What is the meaning of these adjectives?
(i) in isolation
(ii) as part of these phrases
Why has the poet pitted the flight of Time against the ‘lazy leaden-stepping hours’ and ‘the heavy Plummets pace’?
What are the things associated with the temporal and what are associated with the eternal?
What guides human souls towards divinity? Who is the final winner in the race against Time?
Why does Milton feel it is not necessary to put up a monument in stone for Shakespeare?
What does the ‘weak witness of thy name’ refer to?
How does Milton describe Shakespeare as the source of inspiration for all succeeding generations of poets?
In which section of the play does Mr. Lamb display signs of loneliness and disappointment? What are the ways in which Mr. Lamb tries to overcome these feelings?
Love is described as light. What makes the poet talk about shadows?
Comment on the use of the image of the shadows for the idea that the poet wants to convey
The poet seems to be addressing his beloved in the poem. What is the message he wishes to convey to her?
Instead of ‘A Lecture Upon Love’ the poet calls the poem ‘A Lecture Upon the Shadow’. What is the effect that this has on our reading of the poem?
Dr Sadao was compelled by duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?
How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?
What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self absorption?
While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during war time, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A. J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year? What are the similarities?
Is there any film you have seen or novel you have read with a similar theme?
Who is Mr. Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?
Do you think all this will change Derry’s attitude towards Mr. Lamb?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?