2019

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) How appropriate, in your opinion, is the title ‘After
Apple Picking’?
b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Poe’s poem ‘To Helen’.
c) How does Plath combine history with personal emotion in
her poem ‘Daddy’?

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Discuss the role of the sea in The Old Man and the Sea.
b) A man can be destroyed but not defeated-How does The
Old Man and the Sea illustrate this theme.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Examine ‘The Purloined Letter’ as a successful detective
story.
b) Discuss ‘Dry September’ as a critique of racism.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) How does Arthur Miller treat the theme of American
dream in Death of a Salesman?
b) Comment on the dramatic techniques in Death of a
Salesman.
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• Attempt any one of the following questions:
a) Consider Whitman’s ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ as an
elegy.
b) Comment on the poetic style of Langston Hughes with
reference to ‘Harlem’.
c) Examine Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ as a feminist poem.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Discuss Hemingway’s narrative techniques as revealed in
The Old Man and the Sea.
b) Comment on the title of The Old Man and the Sea.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Critically analyses the autobiographical elements in F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Crack-Up’.
b) Examine Faulkner’s representation of gender and class in
‘Dry September’.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Comment on Millar’s use of symbols in Death of a
Salesman.
b) Comment on the dramatic conflict in Miller’s Death of a
Salesman.
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• Attempt any one of the following questions:
a) Assess the effectiveness of the imagery in Robert Frost’s
‘After Apple Picking’.
b) Show how Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ belongs to the
‘confessional mode’ of poetry.
c) Examine Edgar Allan Poe’s use of classical allusions in
his poem, ‘To Helen’.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Examine the relationship shared by Santiago and
Manolin in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
b) Comment on Hemingway’s handling of symbols in The
Old Man and the Sea.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Comment on the narrative style of Edgar Allan Poe as
revealed in his story, ‘The Purloined Letter’.
b) Bring out the appropriateness of the title of William
Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Analyse the significance of the role of Linda Loman in
Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
b) Examine Arthur Miller’s critique of the American Dream
in Death of a Salesman.
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• Attempt any one of the following questions:
a) Comment on the major themes of Robert Frost’s ‘After
Apple Picking’.
b) Comment on the metaphor in Walt Whitman’s ‘O
Captain! My Captain!’
c) Bring out the significance of the images in Langston
Hughes poem ‘Harlem’.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is an allegory of
man’s life on earth – Elucidate.
b) Comment on the title of the novel, The Old Man and the
Sea.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Show how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Crack-Up’
successfully manifests the socio-economic and political
upheaval of the contemporary times.
b) Comment on the theme of racial discrimination in ‘Dry
September’.

• Attempt any one of the following questions:

a) Critically examine Aurther Miller’s depiction of Willy
Loman in Death of a Salesman.
b) Analyse Miller’s dramatic technique in Death of a
Salesman.