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1 (DEG21) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2013 Second Year English Paper - I : LITERARY CRITICISM Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 100 Question No. 1 is Compulsory Answer One question from each unit making Five questions in total All questions carry equal marks UNIT I 1) Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem While joy gave clouds the light of stars, That beamed where er they looked; And calves and lambs had tottering Knees, Excited, while they sucked; While every bird enjoyed his song, Without one thought of harm or wrong I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I Stood, Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood UNIT - II 2) What are the main characteristics of tragedy, according to Aristotle? 3) Bring out the views of Johnson on the life of Milton 4) Explain the views of Coleridge on poetry UNIT III 5) Write a note on Arnold s touch-stone method 6) What light is thrown by Eliot s Tradition and Individual Talent on his views on the poetic process? 7) What are the views of T.S. Eliot on The Metaphysical Poets. 8) Discuss the four kinds of meaning given by I.A. Richards

2 UNIT IV 9) Bring out the views of Brooks in Irony as a Principle of structure. 10) Intention is design or plan in the author s mind. Discuss. 11) Discuss the seventh type of ambiguity of Empson. UNIT V 12) Explain Widdowson s approach to stylistic analysis. 13) Discuss Is there a text in the class? 14) The structuralist idea is to follow literature in its overall evolution. Discuss. 15) Discuss Showalter as the Champion of feminist criticism. 16) Attempt an essay on the importance of structure, sign and play in the Discourse of Human Sciences.

3 (DEG22) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2013 Second Year English Paper - II : AMERICAN LITERATURE Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 100 Question No. 1 is Compulsory Answer any Two questions from Unit II and Two from 1) Annotate any FOUR of the following : Unit III All questions carry equal marks UNIT I a) With this just sustain d note I announce my self to you This gentle call is for you my love, for you. b) Dark mother always gliding near with soft fret, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? c) I shall laugh the worst laugh I ever laughed. I m cursed. God, if I don t believe I m cursed. d)... Earth is the right place for love: I don t know where it s likely to go better. e) Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. f) The actions of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation g) Oh, Ben, that s good to hear! Because sometimes I m afraid that I m not teaching them the right kind of Ben, how should I teach them? h) I see great things for you kids, I think your troubles are over. But remember, start big and you ll end big.

4 UNIT II 2) Bring out the autobiographical element in Whitman s Out of the cradle endlessly rocking. 3) Consider Home Burial as a dramatic monologue. 4) How does Emerson establish that self-reliance is the most essential quality needed in the scholar? 5) Discuss Death of a Salesman as criticism on American business morality. 6) Discuss aspects of American Renaissance. UNIT III 7) Attempt an essay on the major themes in Dickinson s poetry. 8) Comment on Thoreau s economy from a study of his Walden. 9) Bring out the religious symbolism in Hemingway s The Old Man and the Sea. 10) Comment on the theme of belonging in The Hairy Ape. 11) Discuss the poetic devices used by Poe in The Raven. 12) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : a) Frost s depiction of Nature. b) Puritanism. c) Theme of The Assistant. d) Tragic irony in Glass Managerie. e) Ishmael s quest in Moby Dick. f) Character of Santiago. g) Transcendentalism. h) Plastic theatre.

5 (DEG23) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2013 Second Year English Paper - III : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 100 Question No. 1 is Compulsory Answer any Two questions each from Unit II and Unit III All questions carry equal marks 1) Annotate any Four of the following : UNIT I a) When first my casement is wide open thrown At dawn, my eyes delighted on it rest; b) Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. c) We lost a friend whose stylish prose Was quite the best of all our batch d)... why not leave Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins, Every one of you? e)... Probably Only the Egyptians had it right f) In a corner of her mind a living green mango drops softly to earth. g) Anarchy is always a source of danger h) Creation has been made possible through the continual self-surrender of the unit to the universe

6 UNIT II 2) Discuss the poetic evocation of tree in Our Casuarina Tree. 3) Bring out the varied interpretations in the poems of A.K. Ramanujan. 4) Critically comment on the theme of Enterprise. 5) The theme of The King of the Dark Chamber is sombrely impressive. Discuss 6) Critically examine Tagore s Man. UNIT III 7) Bring out the epic qualities of Savitri. 8) Gitanjali is full of Pure poetry. Discuss. 9) Discuss the folk elements in Hayavadana. 10) Explain the influence of Gandhian ideals on Untouchable. 11) How does Shashi Deshpande depict man woman relationships in That Long Silence. 12) Write short notes on any Four of the following : i) Use of myths in A Tiger for Malgudi. j) Theme of Indian Summer. k) Indianness in Night of the Scorpion. l) Theme of alienation in The Last Labyrinth. m) Theme of A River. n) Telling in On the Ganga Ghat. o) Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet. p) Feminism in A Fire on the Mountain.

7 (DEG24) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2013 Second Year English Paper - IV : TWENTIETH CENTURY - POETRY AND DRAMA Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 100 1) Annotate any FOUR of the following : Question No.1 in Unit - I is Compulsory Answer any Two questions each from Unit - II and Unit - III All questions carry equal marks Unit I a) You were silly like us: your gift survived it all: The Parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. b) And there could I marvel my birthday Away but the weather turned around. c) He continues quick and dull in his clear images; I continue slow and sharp in my broken images. d) I stayed on under the welding cold Watching the tramp s face glisten and the drops on his coat Flash and darken. e) No indolent procrastinations and no yawning states, No sighs or head-scratchings. Nothing but bounce and stab And a ravening second. f) Bravery s a pleasure in a lonesome place, and a lad would kill his father, I m thinking, would face a foxy divil with a pitchpike on the flags of hell. g) What call have you to be that lonesome when there s poor girls walking Mayo in their thousands now? h) What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here; Unit II 2) Discuss love as a major theme in Auden s poetry with reference to In Memory of W.B. Yeats. 3) Bring out the surrealistic elements in Dylan Thomas poems.

8 4) Discuss the grace in Robert Graves poems. 5) Explain the theme in Church Going. 6) Critically comment on the poem Thrushes. 7) Comment on the plot of The Playboy of the Western World. 8) Discuss the contribution of Irish Theatre to English Literature. Unit III 9) Discuss the Craftsmanship in My Sad Captains. 10) Explain the structure and plot in A Phoenix Too Frequent. 11) Discuss Happy Days as an exposition of the resourcefulness of the human spirit in the face of hopelessness. 12) Can The Birth Day Party be called an Absurd play? Explain. 13) Bring out the lyrical beauty in The Prisoners. 14) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : q) Synge as an Irish dramatist. r) Theme of Pibroach. s) Poetic drama. t) Symbolist manifesto. u) Comedy of Menace. v) Stephen Spender as a modern poet. w) Trends in modern poetry. x) Pathos in The Whitsun Wedding.

9 (DEG25) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2013 Second Year English Paper - V : TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE AND FICTION Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 100 Questions in UNIT - I is Compulsory Answer any Two questions from Unit - II and Two questions from 1) Annotate any Four of the following : Unit - III All questions carry equal marks UNIT I a) And during a good part of history the philosopher endeavoured to deal with objects which he believed to be of the same exactness as the mathematician s. b) The end of the enjoyment of poetry is a pure contemplation from which all the accidents of personal emotion are removed; c) To create a form is not merely to invent a shape, a rhyme or rhythm. d) A mute theatre is a possibility (I do not mean the cinema); e) It is the Mona Lisa of literature. f) The Hamlet of Laforgue is an adolescent; the Hamlet of Shakespeare is not, he has not that explanation and excuse. g) Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction so we are told. h) Lamps were being lit and an indescribable change had come over London since the morning hour. UNIT II 2) Who, according to T.S. Eliot is a perfect critic? 3) Discuss the possibilities of poetic drama. 4) Discuss the problems of Hamlet, according to T.S. Eliot. 5) Consider A Room of One s Own as a plea for women s rights. 6) Estimate the impact of Virginia Woolf on Women s writing.

10 UNIT III 7) Discuss the views of Lytton Strachey on Matthew Arnold expressed in Eminent Victorians. 8) Attempt an essay on the theme of Lord Jim. 9) Comment on Joycean diction in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10) Bring out the significance of the title The Lord of the Flies. 11) Comment on the final episode in The Power and the Glory. 12) Discuss the theme of The Moon and Six Pence. 13) Explain the narrative technique in The Sand Castle. 14) Bring out the theme of C.P. Snow s The Masters. 15) Write short notes on any Four of the following : y) Novel as a genre. z) Stream of Consciousness Technique. aa) Feminism. bb) Plot and characters. cc) The Modern Novel. dd) Lytton Strachey prose style. ee) Setting. ff) The language of fiction.

1) Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem. And calves and lambs had tottering. Knees, Excited, while they sucked;

ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY-2014. Paper I : LITERARY CRITICISM (DEG 21) 1) Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem While joy gave clouds the light of stars, That beamed where er they looked; And