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Bachelors Programme

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B. D. P.
Term End Examination December, 2012 & June, 2013

Answer any three of the following :

(a)

Elective Course

ENGLISH

Full Marks : 100

(b)

( Weightage of Marks : 70% )

(a)

course.

Attempt a critical appreciation of Spensers

sonnet One day I wrote her name upon the
strand.
Discuss Absalom
political satire.

(c)

Analyse the various similes used by Shelley

to describe the skylark in his Ode.

(d)

Show how Tennyson bids farewell to the old

and welcomes the new in Ring out, Wild
Bells.

(e)

How does Browning probe the psychology of

an over-possessive lover in Porphyrias
Lover ?

and Achitophel

as

Grays

Elegy

Written

in

the

Country Churchyard as an elegiac poem.

(d)

What impressions do you get of postcolonial Caribbean poetry from the poems
of Dennis Brutus and Dennis Scott ?

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Consider

20 2 = 40

(b)

(f)

To whom does Pope direct his satire, and

Answer with reference to the extract in your

(c)
Answer any two of the following :

Analyse Donnes The Good Morrow as a

how, in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ?

Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance

in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.

1.

12 3 = 36

metaphysical Love poem.

( First Paper : Reading Poetry )

Time : Four Hours

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Show how Wordsworth discovers elements

of wonder in the most common and familiar
in his poem Animal Tranquillity and Decay.

(e)

Discuss two

elements of modernity in

T. S. Eliots poem Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock.
(f)

Discuss Hopkins Pied Beauty as a religious

poem.

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(g)

(h)

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What aspects of nature are revealed in Ted

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(h)

Scan the following lines and name the

predominant metre.

Hughes poem Pike ?

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Kamala Das Introduction is a poem of quest

That floats on high oer vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

for self-identity. Do you agree ? Give

A host of golden daffodils.

reasons for your answer.

3.

Answer any four of the following :

6 4 = 24
(a)

How

does

Shakespeare

challenge

sonneteering conventions in My Mistress

Eyes ... ?
(b)

Write a note on one of the dominant

features of Romanticism.

(c)

What does Keats say about the music of

Autumn ?

(d)

What does Seamus Haney say about his

grandfather in Digging ?

(e)

What is metonymy ? How does it differ from

synecdoche ?

(f)

How would you differentiate between sex

and gender ?

(g)

Explain with reference to the context :

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and
fight.

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