2117/N11 OCTOBER 2011 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND. LITERARY FORMS ‘Time : Three hours L (For those who joined in July 2003 and after) Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A Give a brief account of the literary achievements of any THREE of the following authors (8x 10=30) (a) Ben Johnson. (b) John Milton. (©) doseph Addison, (@) Henry Fielding. (@) PB. Shelley. (Byron. (g) Thomas Hardy. (h) Bernard Shaw. Write essays_on the impact of THREE of the following literary movements in English literature (8x 10 = 30) (a) The Renaissance or the Imagist movement. (b) The _ Metaphysical Movement or The Pre - Raphaelite Movement. (©) The Romantic Movement or Georgion poetry SECTION B Write short essays on any FOUR of the following topics (4x 10 = 40) (a), Shakespearean comedy. (b) The popularity of the one-act play in the modern world. (©) Characteristic features of an epic. (a) Pastoral elegy, (e) The Horation satire. () Aphoristic Essays. (g) The plot and structure of a novel. (h) Alliteration and Synecdoche. 2 2117/N11@ © Consider Marvel as a metaphysical poet with reference to "The Garden". Consider Gray as a precursor of the Romantic Movement with special reference to his "Elegy" 4 2118/N12 2118/N12 OCTOBER 2011 Paper Il — THE ELIZABETHAN AND THE AUGUSTAN AGES (Por those who joined in July 2003 and after) ‘Time : Three hours ‘Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A 1. Annotate any FIVE of the following passages, choosing at least TWO from each group : (Gx 4=20) GROUP A (a) The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile Stirred up with every and revenge, deceived ‘The mother of mankind, (©) Ifthe world be worth thy winning, ‘Think, O think it worth enjoying. (© Our hands wore firmly cemented With a fast balm, which thence did spring, Our eye-beams, twisted, and did thread Our eyes upon one double string@ © © @ wy) @ 0 So let use melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ‘Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. ‘Three things another's modest wishes bound: My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound, GROUPB Revenge triumphs over death; Love slight it; Honour aspireth to it; Frief flieth to it; Fear pre-oceupateth it ‘To begin first with the length of the action; it is so far from exceeding the compass of a natural day, that it takes not up an artificial One would suspect it for a shop of witcheratt, to find in it the fat of serpents, spawn of snakes. Ifyou please, I'm sure I don't care how soon we leave off quarrelling, provided you own you were tired first. If the old Jwery were a ward, I believe Charles would be an elderman. I hear he pays as many annuities, as the Irish tontine 2 2118/N12 Answer any TWO of the following questions, in about 500 words each @ ©) © @ @ (2x 20= 40) How does Dryden present the ancient- modern controversy's in "An Essay on. Dramatic Poesy"? Consider Paradise Last as an epie. Write an essay on the metaphysical conceits in Donne's "A Valediction : For bidden mourning"? Discuss f Mali as a Jacobean tragedy Write a critical note on Scheridan's character-portrayal in The School for Scandal SECTION B Answer any TWO of the following questions, in about 500 words each (a) ) © (2 20= 40) Write an essay on Milton as a pamphleteer, with reference to AeroPagitica, Critically analyse Robinson Crusoe as an allegory, Consider The Vicar of Wakefield as a sentimental comedy. 3 2118/N12ML 16, a. 18, 19. 20. SECTION B — (2 x 20 = 40 marks) Answer any TWO of the following questions. What according to Newman is the relation between knowledge and learning? Consider “The Eve of St. Agnes” as a romance. Sketch the character of Mrs, Barthwick in ‘The Silver Box, Analyse Kenneth's experiences at Engaadi in ‘The Talisman. Bring out the sufferings of Tess. 4 2119/N21 2119/N21 OCTOBER 2011 THE ROMANTIC AND THE VICTORIAN AGES. ‘Time : Thiee hours L (Por those who joined in July 2003 and after) ‘Maximum : 100 marks Annotate FIVE of the following passages choosing at least TWO from each Group. (x 4=20) GROUP A How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, (0 Sylvan Wye ! thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! Better than all measures Of delightful sound — Better than all treasures, ‘That in books are found — ‘Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown ‘Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways,‘To man, propose this test ~ ‘Thy body at its best, How far can that project thy soul on its lone way? ‘The gemmy bridle glitter'd free, Like to some branches of stars we see Hung in the golden galaxy. GROUP B Prints, pictures, all the glittering and endless succession of knacks and gewgaws, and ostentatiously displayed wares of tradesmen, which make a week-day saunter through the less busy parts of the metropolis so delightful ~ are shut out, T scrambled up with pain and shame enough ~ yet outwardly trying to face it down, as if nothing had happened - when the roguish grin of one of these young wits encountered me, And though Ill tongues shall wound me, and our common name Be as a marked stamp on thine innocent brow For men to point at as they pass. 2 2119/N21 10. IL 1 12, 13, M4, |As to my character for what men call crime Seeing I please my senses as I list, And vindicate that right with force or guile, It is a public matter, and I care not IfT discuss it with you. Do we waste the evening Commiserating with each other about ‘The unhygienic condition of our worm-cases? SECTION A — (2 x 20= 40 marks) Answer any TWO of the following questions. Bring out the humour in Lamb's essays. ‘Sum up Ruskin’s views on books. Analyse Wordsworth’s attitude towards nature in Tintern Abbey”. Discuss the wit and humour in Fry's The Lady is Not For Burning, Comment on the portrayal of Lucretia in ‘The Cenci. 2119/N2116. a. 18. 19. 20. SECTION C — (2 x 20 = 40 marks) Answer TWO of the following questions. Discuss the ambiguity of life shown in “The Whit sun weddings”. How does sylvia plath display the racial animosity in “Daddy”? Comment on the role of Alison porter in Look Back in Anger. Consider Animal Farm as a political allegory. Examine the portrayal of septimus warren smith in Mrs Dalloway. 4 2120/N22 2120/N22 OCTOBER 2011 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE (Por those who joined in July 2003 and afterwards) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A— (20 marks) Annotate FIVE of the following passages choosing at least TWO from each group. (x 4=20) GROUP A 1. Astarlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities , ‘The furry and the mire of human veins. 2. O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing masters of my soul. 3. And the camels galled, sore footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow.Between the conception ‘And the creation Between the emotion And the responses Falls the shadow Our researchers into public opinion are content that he held the proper opinions for a time of year; when there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. GROUP B So far indeed was he from sharing the opinions and feelings of the caste to which he belonged, that he conceived an aversion to the glorious and the immortal memory, and even when George the third was on the throne, maintained that nothing but the restoration of the banished dynasty could save the country. Would it be a sufficient defence of such a picture to say that every part was exquisitely colored, that the green hedges, the apple trees loaded with fruit, the wagons reeling, under the yellow sheares and the submitted reapers wiping their foreheads, were very fine? 2 2120/N22 10. 1 12. 13. u. 15, He was neither ill-natured enough, nor Jong-headed enough to be quality of any malicious act which required contrivance and disguise. Give me a goddess's work to do; and I will do it. 1 will even stoop to a queen's work if you will share the throne with me. I stand for the future and the past, for the posterity that has no vote and the tradition that never had any. SECTION B — (2 x 20 = 40 marks) Answer TWO of the following questions. Consider “Journey of the magi” as a poem of spiritual conflict. How does Yeats symbolise Byzantium? How far is “The unknown citizen” a satire on modern society? What are macaulay’s views on Goldsmith? Sketch the character boanerges in the Apple Cart, 3 2120/N2218, 19. 20. Comment on the bird's experiences of anguish and suffering in “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”. How far is Willy both a tragic and pathetically comic figure in Death of a Salesman? Attempt a portrayal of Roger Chillingworth in ‘The Scarlet Letter. 4 2121/NB1 2121/N31 OCTOBER 2011 Paper V— AMERICAN LITERATURE (Por those who joined in July 2003 and after) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A — (60 marks) Annotate FIVE of the following passages choosing atleast TWO from each Group: (x 4=20) GROUP A Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak: December, And each separate dying enter wrought its ghost up on the floor. Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead, Over my mood stealing and spreading they come, Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach's sky. ‘Than Oars divide the ocean, ‘Too silver for a seam - Or butterilies, off Banks of Noon Leap, plashless as they swim.I've known her - from an example nation Choose one — ‘Then - Close the values of her attention - Like stone. Thave come after then and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, ‘To please the yelping dogs. GROUP B Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote The near explains the far. The drop is a small Patience - Patience; - with the shades of all the good and the great for company; and for solace, the perspective of your own infinite life; and for work: the study and communication of principles, the making those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world. Horrors! Heaven have mercy... You're a Christian martyr, yes, that’s what you're a Christian martyr. It isn’t a flood, it's not a tornado, mother. I'm just not popular like you were in Blue Mountain, ‘Mother's afraid that I'm going to be an old maid. 2 2121/N31 10. IL. u, 12, 18, “4 1B 16. 1, reach for a cigaratte, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger - anything that can blow your candles out. Answer TWO of the following questions in about 500 words each: (2 20= 40) ‘Sum up Emerson's views on Man Thinking. How does Dickinson describe the bird's movements in "A Bird Came Down the Walk"? Bring out the conflicting nature of Frost's poem "Mending Wall’ Comment on the theme of illusion vs. reality in ‘The Glass Menagerie Sketch the character of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. SECTION B — (2 x 20 = 40 marks) Answer TWO of the following questions in about 500 words each. What are the constructive and positive features of “Civil Disobedience”? Describe the ways in which Cummings portray the balloon man, 3 2121/N312122/N32 OCTOBER 2011 Paper VI— INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH (For those who joined in July 2003 and after) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A — (60 marks) I. Annotate FIVE of the following passages choosing atleast 2 from each group: (5x 4 = 20 marks) Group - A 1. sau the ward fingers Glow as smoke is inhaled And the lighted end of tobacco Becomes an orange spot. 2, God is in heaven and all Is right with their stinking world. 3. When, finally, we reached the place, We hardly knew with we were there. 4. And he left us a changed mother and more than one annual ritual,10. IL 1 12, With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. children have their play on the seashore of worlds. Group -B Thad read in the Ramayana of the tribulations of sita for having left the ring drawn by Lakshman, 80 it was not possible for me to be sceptical of its potency. I somehow felt the day coming to me like a new gift-edged letter, with some unheard of news awaiting me on the opening of the envelope. The materials of which be spoke were invariably so rare or distant that one could hardly hope to get hold them without the help sindbad , the sailor. It is not healthy for youngsters to be made self conscious. It was not he it was the liquor : he insisted, Answer TWO of the following questions in about 500 words each : (2 20 = 40 marks) How does Tagore glorify children? Write a critical appreciation of “The Fancy-Dress show’. 2 2122/N32 13. 14. 16, IIL. 16. 1. 18. 1s. 20. How the father becomes an alien in his own home in Dilip chitre’s “Father Returning Home"? How does Tagore bring out the value of one's reminiscences in the essay “The picture-chamber"? What was Tagore’s reaction to the “various Learning” to which he was subjected at home? SECTION B — (40 marks) Answer TWO of the following questions in about 500 words each (2x 20 = 40 marks) Bringout the importance of the opening scene of ‘Tughlag. Describe the circumstances leading to the death of Ghiyas-ud-din Abbasid, Comment on the symbols used in Tughlag. Write a detailed account on Gandhiji's tour of malgudi, Analyse the character Sriram in detail, 3 2122/N32Answer TWO of the following questions fa) (b) © @ ©) (2x 10 = 20) Examine the characteristics of Shakespeare's tragedies. Analyse the role of Fools in Shakespeare's plays, Describe the Elizabethan stage. Write an essay on the supernatural elements in Shakespeare's plays. Comment on the themes of shakespeare’s sonnets, 4 2123/N33 2123/N33 ‘Time : Three hours OCTOBER 2011 PAPER VII — SHAKESPEARE (For those who joined in July 2008 and after) Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A — (50 marks) Annotate FIVE of the following passages, choosing at least TWO from each group x4=20) GROUP A (a) We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed (b) Indeed, she is a most fresh and delicate creature (©) Tam glad Ihave found this napkin, ‘This was her first remembrance from the ‘Moor. (a) If that the earth could teem with women’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. out of my sight! (e) Nobody; I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my Kind lord. O, farewell!GROUP B (Dusen for whose dear love (They say) she hath abjur’d the Company And sight of men, (@) Toft no ring with her; what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charm’d her! (h) Tove thee so, that maugre all. thy pride, Nor is't nor reason can my passion hide. (Why, man, he's a very devil, I have not seen such a frago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard, and all (Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times ‘Thou never should'st: love woman like to me. Answer ONE of the following questions (1x 15 =15) (@) Discuss the tragic flaw in the character of othello, (b) Comment on the role played by Casio. (©) Sketch the character of Desdemona. 2 2123/N33 Answer ONE of the following questions (1x 15 = 15) (a) Examine the central theme of Twelfth Night. (b) Write an essay on the note of pathos in ‘Twelfth Night. (© Comment on Feste's Versatility as a humourist. SECTION B — (50 marks) Answer ONE of the following questions : (x15 =15) (a) Discuss the conflict between Richard II and Bolingbroke. (b) Consider Richard Il a lyrical drama. (©) Examine the source of Richard Il Answer ONE of the following questions (1x15 = 15) (a) Comment on the theme of sin and redemption in The Tempist. (b) Examine the role played by Gonzalo. (©) Describe the love-relationship between Miranda and Ferdinand. 8 2123/N83(6 pages) 2124/N34 OCTOBER 2011 LITERARY CRITICISM AND PRACTICAL CRITICISM (Por those who joined in July 2003 and after) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A— (60 marks) Literary Criticism 1. Answer TWO of the following questions. (2 x 20=40) (a) Discuss how the sociological cri literature and literarians, (@) Elaborate how psychology helps literary cxiticism, (© Elucidate the tenets of the Formalistic approach to literature. (@ Bring out the merits and demerits of the Historical approach to literature. (©) Explain what, according to the Moralistic approach, is the aim of literature. 2, Answer ONE of the following questions: (ax 20=20) (@) Consider T.S. Bliot a classicist in art and criticim, (b) Illustrate how LA. Richards distinguishes between the language of science and the language of poetry. (© Discuss the contribution of leavis to literary criticism. 3 SECTION B — (40 marks) Practical eriticism (a) Attempt a critical analysis of the following passages: (My love is like a red, red rose ‘That's nowly sprung in June: ‘My love is like the melody ‘That's eweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I: And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till’ the seas gang dry, my dear, ‘And the rocks melt wi the sun: And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run, ‘And fare thee weel, my only love, ‘And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my love, ‘Thou’ it were ten thousand mile. Or 2 2124/N34Gi) Full many a gem, of purest ray sorene, ‘The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air, Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast ‘The little tyrant of his fields withstood, ‘Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of, his country's blood. ‘The applause of listening senates to command, ‘The threats of pain and ruin to despise, ‘To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read thoir history in a nation’s eyes o @ Once upon a sunny morning, a man who sat at his breakfast looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her.’ There's a unicorn in the garden, he said. ‘Eating roses.’ She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. ‘The unicorn is a mythical beast’, she said, and turned her back on him, The man walked slowly drownstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still 3 2124/N34 Gi) there; he was now browsing among the tulips. ‘Here, unicorn’, said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him, “The unicorn, ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again, ‘The unicorn,’ he said, ‘ate a lily’ His wife sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly, ‘You are a booby,’ She said, ‘and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch’. The man, who had never liked the words ‘booby’ and booby-hatch’, and who liked thom even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. ‘We'll see about that,’ he said. He walked over to the door. “He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead,’ he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn, but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep. Or When the film ended and the lights were switched on, Sambu turned about and gazed at tho aperture in the projection room as if his father had vanished into it ‘The world now scemed to be a poorer place without father. He ran home. His mother was waiting for him at the door “Itis nine o'clock. You are very late. 4 2124INBS [P-r.0}‘I would have loved it if the picture had lasted even longer. You are Perverse, mother. Why won't you see it?” Throughout the dinner he kept talking, ‘Exactly as father used to sing, exactly as he used to walk, exactly... His mother listened to him in grim silence. ‘Why don't you say something, mother?” ‘Thave nothing to say. ‘Don't you like the picture?” She didn’t answer the question, She asked, ‘Would you like to go and see the picture again tomorrow?” ‘Yes, mother, if possible every day as long as the picture is shown, Will ‘you give me four annas every day?” Yes, ‘Will you let me sce both the shows every day? “Oh, no. You can't do that. What is to happen to your lessons?” ‘Won't you come and see the picture, mother?” ‘No, impossible,” 5 2124/N34 For a week more, three hours in the day, Sambu lived in his father's company, and feit depressed at the end of every show. Every day it was a parting for him. He longed to sit down and see the night show too, but mother bothered too much about school lessons. Time was precious but mother did not seem to understand it; lessons could wait, but not father. He envied those who were seeing the picture at night. Unable to stand his persuasions any more, his ‘mother agreed to see the. 6 2124/N34