NTA UGC/NET/SET/JRF English Paper 2, Includes 2023 Solved Papers, 4th Edition

NTA UGC NET 2021 Paper II English

Shift 1

Directions for questions 1 to 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet’s own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.

But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self-recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and ...