KNU/UG/ENG/SEM II/2021 04.10.

2021
UG 2nd Semester Examination 2021

Award: B.A. (Honours)

Discipline: ENGLISH

Course Type: GEC-2

Course Code: BAHENGGE 201

Course Name: INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

Q.No Marks

Unit-I

1. Answer any five of the following: 5x1=5

(a) What do the vendors weigh in the poem “In the Bazaars of Hyderabad”?
(b) How do the magicians announce themselves “In the Bazaars of Hyderabad”?
(c) When was the poem “The Freaks” published?
(d) Why did the poet’s father ask the tenants to leave in Dilip Chitre’s poem “The felling of
the Banyan Tree”?
(e) Which are the other trees that were felled in “The felling of the Banyan Tree”?
(f) What does the poet mean by ‘internal sweetness’ in the poem “Goodbye Party for Miss
Pushpa TS”?
(g) Why did the insects and birds leave the banyan tree?
(h) Explain the meaning of the expression “mirrors with panels of amber”.
(i) What was the profession of Pushpa’s father in “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa TS”?
(j) What does Kamala Das compare her husband’s mouth with in “The Freaks”?
2. Answer any five questions: 5x2=10
(a) “Bells for the feet of blue pigeons/ Frail as a dragon-fly’s wings” --- Why are the bells
compared to ‘dragon-fly’s wings’?
(b) What is the significance of “tassels of azure and red”?
(c) “Whose roots lay deeper than all our lives”---What aspect of human behaviour does the
line reflect?
(d)
What is the occasion for Ezekiel’s poem“Good bye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S”?
What does the reference to ‘raw mythology’ imply in the poem “The Felling of the
(e)
Banyan tree”?
“Where there are no trees except the one / Which grows and seethes in one’s dreams”---
(f)
Why is the expression ‘grows and seethes’ used?
“No trees except the one which grows and seethes in one’s dreams”. Which tree is
(g)
referred to in this line?

Describe what the flower girls weave in “In the Bazaars of Hyderabad”.
(h)
What is meant by the expression ‘indecipherable words of a lost language’?
(i)
What does rain symbolize in “In a Night of Rain”?
(j)
 2x5=10
3. Answer any two questions:

(a) “Can this man with/ Nimble finger-tips unleash/ Nothing more alive than the/ Skin’s
lazy hungers?”--- What does the poet seek to emphasise through this line?

(b) How does the banyan tree stand out as different from other trees? What details of the
tree does the poet highlight in the poem?

(c) “An hour when/ remembrance is vague, the unknown coastline/ of a land disappearing
into the sea”--- Explain with reference to the context.

(d) What traits of Miss Pushpa TS does the poet appreciate?

UNIT – II

1x10=10
4. Answer any one question:

(a) Bring out the autobiographical elements in Narayan’s The English Teacher.

(b) Critically examine the changes in the relationship between Krishna and Susila
throughout the novel.
(c) Show how successfully the theme of love is developed in Narayan’s The English
Teacher.

5. Answer any one question: 1x5=5

(a) What does Krishna’s role as a teacher reveal about his character?

(b) Briefly analyse how Narayan’s The English Teacher brings out the complexities of a
colonial discourse.