Internal Assessment Early 20th Century Literature.

Compare and contrast your answers with other writers and poets in this paper for
your analyses.
Do not plagiarise. Make sure you provide references and bibliography when quoting
other writers, parts of the text(s), or even ideas not your own but those you use to
either justify your own or contrast your critique.

Poetry Unit.

Answer ANY ONE of the following 2 questions. (20 marks each)

1. Yeats uses distinct symbols and motifs in his poems that betray a romantic idealism but
also uses the symbols to comment on the early twentieth century. Identify some of the
symbols he employs based on your readings of the prescribed poems. What is the picture of
the present you derive from his references to epic imagery or the role of art amidst war,
anarchy and ageing?
(Or)

2. Comment on your impression of the city in post war Europe/ England that emerges from
your readings of Eliot's poems. What is the nature of the individuals that inhabit the city. How
do they represent the neurosis and psychosis of the modernist era?
(Or)

3. Compare and contrast the references to hell in poems by Eliot and Wilfred Owen.

Drama Unit : Waiting for Godot.

Answer ANY ONE of the following questions. ( 20 marks each)

1. The relationship between Pozzo and Lucky critiques the relationship between Vladimir
and Estragon in Beckett's play. Agree or disagree? Justify your answer with references from
the play. What are the various themes that emerge from the interactions between these
characters in your understanding of the text?

(OR)

2. Do Vladimir and Estragon find meaning in their existence at the end of the play? How
does the play reflect the modernist problems of existential angst? Use examples from the
text to identify some elements of modernist problems you have encountered in your
readings of this and other texts in the course.
(OR)

3. Comment on the lack of any female characters in Waiting for Godot. What will change if
any or all characters were women in the play? Do you agree Beckett's play is
gender-biassed and / or racist ? If so, how will you adapt or reinterpret the play to be more
inclusive?
(OR)
4. Comment on the title of Beckett's play. How do you interpret it?