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Vallath MPPSC Revision | Session 11
Added:Good evening everyone and welcome to the session.
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So welcome again to this new session of MPSC revision.
Great sir. Are you all ready for some extra revision today?
Okay, let me start by sharing my screen with you all that you can see the questions.
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So, welcome again to our MPSC revision session number 11.
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Here we go to the first question for tonight.
In Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man, whose philosophical ideas and arguments heavily frame and inspired the poem's theological and ethical framework.
Good evening, Hina. Good evening, Victory Zone Shika Shik Shamantra. Right. Yeah.
Okay.
So, yes, here's the first question for you all today. In Alexander Pope's an essay on man whose philosophical ideas and arguments heavily frame and inspire the poem's theological and ethical framework.
Tell me it is Lord Paulingbrook.
Alexander pope dedicated an essay on man to his close friend the political philosopher and prominent dast Henry St. John first viscount bowling broke.
Bowling broke's physical philosophical arguments particularly those concerning natural theology cosmic optimism and theodicy heavily framed and inspired the theological and ethical framework of the poem.
Okay. Clear? So it was Lord Balling broke. Lord Balling broke.
Okay.
>> I was also checking if the uh link has been shared. So yes, it has been shared. Right.
Right.
Next question.
Which of the following Galiva's travels societies represents swift severe critique of the Royal Society and its pursuit of useless abstract scientific experiments?
Tell me Which of the following Galivver's travels societies represents Swed's severe critique of the Royal Society and its pursuit of useless abstract scientific experiments?
It is the Laotans, the flying island of Laaputa. Remember the flying island of Laputa. Swift severely criticized the royal society and the excesses of the enlightenment.
In part three of Galiva's struggles, the floating island of Lauta here represents intellectuals so obsessed with abstract mathematics and music that they're completely detached from reality. Below on the main island, the Grand Academia of Lagardo functions as a direct parody of the Royal Society, while projectors waste time and resources on utterly useless and impractical experiments such as trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. So through this flying island of Lauta, Swift criticized the useless experiments of royal society.
Clear?
Yes.
Right.
Next.
Which famous romantic poet drew upon Robert Burton's extensive compilation of love melancholy to write his narrative poem Lamia. I hope you all remember that work that trise the anatomy of melancholy by Robert Burton which was written under the pseudonym democratus junior. So there's a tratise anatomy of the melancholy by Robert Burton. It talks about love melancholy and religious melancholy.
So which romantic poet was greatly inspired which romantic poet was greatly inspired by Robert Burton's extensive compilation of love melancholy in the anatomy of melancholy to write his narrative poem lama. It is absolutely John Keats.
John Keats was greatly inspired by the idea of love melancholy in Robert Burton's the anatomy of melancholy.
Okay.
So John Keats's narrative poem Lama is based on the concept or on the idea of love melancholy drawn from Robert Burton.
Okay. Right. Next. Between 1621 and 1651 the anatomy of Melancholy underwent numerous expansions and revisions. How many distinct editions were published during this period?
Between 1621 and 51, the anatomy of Melancholy underwent numerous expansions and revisions.
How many distinct editions were published during this period?
Six.
Six. Between 1621 and 51, Robert Burton published six distinct editions of the anatomy of melancholy with the first edition appearing in 1621 and massive expansions were released in 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638 and a posthumous 6th edition in 1651, 1651.
Clear? Right. Next question.
Which poem by TS Elliot famously concludes with the chanting of the upanishadic blessings damata and shanti shanti shanti.
Which poem by TS Elliot famously concludes with the chanting of the upanishadic blessings?
Da da dham and damata and shanti shanti shanti. I hope you all know that this is quoted from Briha Dhanyaka Upanishad Briha Dhanyaka Upanishad.
It is absolutely the Westlands.
It's a modernist masterpiece by TS Elliott published in 1922 which comments and critiques on the contemporary fragmentation experienced by the postworld war era and hence this evoking of Shanti Shanti Shanti let peace prevail that's the ultimate message okay and this was borrowed from Brihadanyaka upanishad Right. Very good.
In Wilfred Awen's famous war poem, Anthem for Doomed Youth, what is the symbolic function of the demented choirs mentioned in the opening lines in Wilfred Davin's famous war poem, Anthem for Doomed Youth, what is The symbolic function of the demented coers mentioned in the opening lines.
They serve as a metaphor for the terrifying unseasing artillery fire and the screams of the dying.
So the horrors of war.
The horrors of war.
Correct.
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Next. Who among the following is widely recognized as the pioneer of the imagist movement in poetry having heavily edited the anthology test I justice 1914 have you all liked the session guys please like the session okay all Right. Please like the session.
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Correct. Okay. Now, so who among the following is widely recognized as the pioneer of the imagist movement in poetry?
Yes. Yes, it is.
But look at the options and look at the questions. Who edited the anthology this image?
Did TE Hume edit the anthology desk image? No. T Hume never edited any anthology.
So if the question specifically mentions about the editing of the anthology this image justice has to be Ezra Pound.
Ezra Pound coined the term imagism and heavily edited the movement's first anthology this imagist in 1914 which helped popularize precision economy of language and direct treatment of the subject in modernist poetry.
Te Hume is the father of imagism true but te Hume never edited the anthology this imagist. So if the question has mentioned clearly who edited the antholog it will be obviously Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound.
All right.
Clear?
Right.
Next question.
How does John Dan contrast the son's age in the opening stanza of the poem the anniversary with the age of the lover's relationship?
It's a question from the poem the anniversary.
How does John Dan contrast the son's age in the opening stanza of the anniversary with the age of the lover's relationship?
The sun is elder by a year now than it was. In the opening lines of the anniversary which says all kings and all their favorites here John Dan contrasts the aging of the natural world with the enduring nature of the lovers bond.
While the lovers are celebrating one year together the sun is older by a year. A small natural aging that brings it one step closer to its inevitable decay. In contrast, their love transcends time and hath no decay.
Okay, so option B is the correct answer.
Next Complete the paradox used by John Dunn to describe the eternal nature of the lover's bond in the first stanza.
So complete the paradox used by John Dunn describe the eternal nature of the lover's bond in the first stanza. You have to fill in the blank. You have to do fill in the blank. There's no tomorrow hath nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away. But truly keeps his first last dash.
but truly keeps his first last first last everlasting day.
First, last everlasting day.
Everlasting day.
Okay.
Clear.
writes in the essay our motherland Swami Viveanandanda asserts that India can rightfully lay claim to being which of the following?
In the essay our motherland? Swami Viveananda asserts that India can rightfully lay claim to being which of the following?
Puna bhi puna bhi in his essay our motherland swami Viveanandanda asserts that India is the land to which all souls on this earth must come to account for karma and rightfully claims it to be the blessed puna. Bhumi or holy lands. Pune bhumi or holy land.
According to Swami Vive Ananda, what is the cornerstone and fundamental legacy of Indian culture that transcends all linguistic, political and economic differences?
According to Vive Ananda, what is the cornerstone and fundamental legacy of Indian culture that transcends all linguistic, political and economic differences? What is so special about us? What is so special about our Indian culture?
It's spiritual unity. It's spiritual unity.
Clear? Right.
In the opening chapter of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway notes that 7,000 soldiers died of what specific cause?
Deliberately framing the grim realities of war.
In the opening chapter of A farewell to arms, Ernest Hemingway notes that 7,000 soldiers died of what specific cause?
Deliberately framing the grim realities of war. The soldiers in a farewell to arms died of collera. They died of cholera.
The soldiers died of cholera in earnest Hemingways. A farewell to arms.
All right.
So that's all for tonight from our side.
I really hope you guys loved the session and enjoyed answering these questions.
Tomorrow I will be back with more at exactly 9:30 p.m. So do join me tomorrow as well and you can also join our UGC net paper one dedicated course.
Okay. So great then tata take care good night. Bye and see you all again tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. for some more revision of MBPSC.
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