Objective Questions
1.Donne present himself in ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ in-
(A) the first person singular number
(B) the first person plural number
(c) the third person singular number
(D) None of thes
Answer ⇒ (A)
2. Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ is-
(A) a didactic poem
(B) an allegorical poem
(C) a love poem
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (C)
3. Donne is well-known for his-
(A) songs and sonnets
(B) satires
(C) sermons
(D) All of these
Answer ⇒ (D)
4. In the poem, ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ ‘dye’ stands for-
(A) to die
(B) to paint
(C) both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
5. ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ may be compared with Shakespeare’s-
(A) ‘All the World’s Stage’
(B) ‘The Marriage of True Minds’
(C) ‘Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind’
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (B)
6. Who has composed the poem,’Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Andrew Marvell
(C) George Herbert L.
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
7. John Donne was the pioneer of –
(A) Elizabethan poetry
(B) Metaphysical poetry
(C) Restoration poetry
(D) Neo-classical poetry
Answer ⇒ (B)
8. Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ is-
(A) sonnet
(B) an ode
(C) a lyric
(D) a ballad
Answer ⇒ (C)
9. ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ has been addressed to-
(A) Donne’s sistet
(B) Donne’s mother
(C) Donne’s friend
(D) Donne’s wife
Answer ⇒ (D)
10. The occasion of the poem, ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ is Donne’s-
(A) continental trip
(B) space tour
(C) voyage
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
11. John Donne has written the poem –
(A) Song of Myself
(B) An Epitaph
(C) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
(D) The Soilder
Answer ⇒ (C)
12. The poet in Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe is…………. his beloved.
(A) tired of
(B) angry with
(C) sad for
(D) happy for
Answer ⇒ (C)
13. John Donne is going to ………… leaving his wife behind.
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Italy
(D) England
Answer ⇒ (B)
14. John Donne thinks that that ………….. is certain.
(A) death
(B) work
(C) life
(D) None of these
Answer ⇒ (A)
15. John Donne wants to go away because he is not tired on his ……………..
(A) mother
(B) father
(C) beloved
(D) sister
Answer ⇒ (C)
16. The poet (John Donne) is better than the –
(A) moon
(B) sun
(C) earth
(D) sky
Answer ⇒ (B)
17. John Donne feels that a …………. is very hopeless.
(A) animal
(B) goat
(C) bird
(D) man
Answer ⇒ (D)
18. …. has been described as a metaphysical poet.
(A) John Keats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Donne
(D) Walt Whitman
Answer ⇒ (B)
19. . .. wants to gladly accept death,
(A)Walt Whitman
(B) John Keats
(C) John Donne
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer ⇒ (C)
20. John Donne had seen the sun setting ……………. night.
(A) today
(B) yesterday
(C) tomorrow
(D) None of these
(C) bird
Answer ⇒ (B)
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the poet want to go away from his beloved?
Ans. The poet wanted to go away from his beloved because he is tired of her, or he can find a more beautiful. beloved. But at last death must come and separate them. So by short separations will teach him to die because each separation is like death.
2. What are the things that the sun does not have?
Ans. The sun has no beloved. So he has no desire or motive to return quickly.
3. What will make the speaker’s journey speedier?
Ans. The speaker loves his beloved intensely, so he has a great incentive and stimulus to get back quickly. He shall fly back on the wings of love quickly.
4. What makes a man’s power feeble?
Ans – Man cannot retain or add to his happiness. But he always exaggerates his mosfortunes. He continuously mournis and cries over his grief. Thus, weakens his power.
5. How do sighing and weeping affect the speaker?
Ans. When the speaker’s beloved sighs, she dries up his soul. When she weeps she decays his blood.
6. How does the beloved waste the speaker’s life?
Ans. The beloved wastes the speaker’s life by taking the best hour of him.
7. In what way will the lovers remain united?
Ans. The poet says that those who love each other can never be separated. They live in each other and so remain ever united.