AFCAT Revision Question- 2015.
AFCAT Revision Question- 2015. For AFCAT Coaching - Please visit - www.ssbcoaching.com 6.Comprehension Passage Today every major anthology of nineteenth – century poetry includes examples of the work which Christina Rossetti produced during her literary career. Born in 1830, she, began composing verse at the age of eleven and continued to write for the remaining fifty-three years of her life. Her brother dante Gabriel Rossetti, himself a poet and painter, soon recognized her genius and urged her to publish her poems. By the time of her death in 1894, Christina had written more than eleven hundred poems and had published over nine hundred of them. Although this work has earned her recognition as the greatest woman poet of the Victorian Age, there is still no authoritative edition of her poetry. Q.1. Who was the poet discussed in the passage and to which age did she belong? Q.2. In which year did she begin composing verse?