List of top English Questions on Poems asked in GATE XH-C2

"I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true
Men do not sham Convulsion, 
Nor simulate, a Throe
The eyes glaze once - and that is Death
Impossible to feign 
The Beads upon the Forehead 
By homely Anguish strung." 
Which of the following options is/are implied by this poem?

"We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet's difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; [...]. Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his works may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously."
Which of the following options is/are implied by this excerpt?

"Lear cries out 'you are men of stones' as Cordelia hangs from a broken wall.
I step out into Chandni Chowk, a street once strewn with jasmine flowers for the Empress and the royal women who bought perfumes from Isfahan, fabrics from Dacca, essence from Kabul, glass bangles from Agra. 
Beggars now live here in tombs of unknown nobles and forgotten saints while hawkers sell combs and mirrors outside a Sikh temple. Across the street, a theater is showing a Bombay spectacular. 
I think of Zafar, poet and Emperor, being led through this street 2024 by British soldiers, his feet in chains, to watch his sons hanged. 
In exile he wrote: 'Unfortunate Zafar spent half his life in hope, the other half waiting. He begs for two yards of Delhi for burial.' 
He was exiled to Burma, buried in Rangoon." 
Which of the following ideas is/are conveyed by this poem?

Politics --by William Butler Yeats
'In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms.' --Thomas Mann
"How can I, that girl standing there, 
My attention fix 
On Roman or on Russian 
Or on Spanish politics, 
Yet here's a travelled man that knows 
What he talks about, 
And there's a politician 
That has both read and thought, 
And maybe what they say is true 
Of war and war's alarms, 
But O that I were young again 
And 
held her in my arms." Which of the following options is/are implied by this poem?

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
Which of the following can be observed about this poem?

Whose poem does Cleanth Brooks close-read to arrive at his concept of ``the well-wrought urn''?