(DEG 21) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year. English. Paper I LITERARY CRITICISM. Question No.1 is Compulsory.

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1 (DEG 21) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year English Paper I LITERARY CRITICISM Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks 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 passsage : Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge so many I had not thought death had undone so many Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,

2 And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William street, To where Saint Many Walenooth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! That Corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it began to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? I keep the dog far hance, that's friends to men, Or with his nails he'll dig it up again! You! hypocrite lecture!- non semblable, - non frore! UNIT II 2. Bring out the significance Aristotle assigns to plot in a tragedy. 3. Estimate Johnson's achievement as a critic. 4. Explain coleridge's views on the form and nature of poetry. 2 (DEG 21)

3 UNIT III 5. Examine what are the limitation of the historic and personal estimated, according to Arnold. 6. Discuss Eliot's views on Association of Sensibility' with reference to the poets mentioned by him. 7. What according to you, is the Chief value of Eliot's essay as a critical force of writing? 8. Comment on the essay of I.A. Richards. UNIT IV 9. Examine death Brook's criticism in relation to the modern critical schools. 10. Discuss the aesthetic analysis in The Intentional Fallacy. 11. Write an essay on the nature and scope of ambiguity in Empson's essay. UNIT V 12. Assess the practical value of stylistic analysis in the teaching of language and literature. 13. Write a note on genette's views on the relationship between structuralism and other disciplines. 3 (DEG 21)

4 14. What are the main ideas in the essay of Stanley fish? Discuss. 15. Evaluate Derrida's essay as an assessment of poststructuralism. 16. Explain the significance of gymocritics in Towards a Feminist poetics. 4 (DEG 21)

5 (DEG 22) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year English Paper II AMERICAN LITERATURE Time : Three hours Question No. 1 is compulsory. Maximum : 100 marks Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (a) (b) (c) Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song, Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe He called on his mate, He poured forts the meanings which I of all men know The wonder is I didn't see at once I never noticed it from here before I must be wonted to it - that's the reason.

6 (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighten darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them I learn from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or splendour of his speech. The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearance. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit! Now pay attention. What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. UNIT II 2. How does Emerson advocate intellectual independence of America in The American Scholar? 3. Critically examine the significance of the major symbols in When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. 4. Bring out the element of realism in Frost's poetry. 2 (DEG 22)

7 5. Discuss Miller's Death of a Salesman in the context of The American Dream. 6. Attempt a critical essay on the impact of the civil war on American Literature. UNIT III 7. How is Walden an expression of the transcendentalist vision? Elaborate. 8. Explain the symbolic nature of Emily Dickinson's poetry. 9. The Old Man and The Sea marks the passage of the Hemingway hero from negation to affirmation. Comment. 10. Write an appreciation of the poem The Raven. 11. The Hairy Ape is basically a play of social protest. 12. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : (a) The Sage of Concord (b) Existentialism in recent American Drama (c) Expressionism in American Drama 3 (DEG 22)

8 (d) Theme of Mokey Dick. (e) Significance of the title The Assistant. (f) Quest for identity in The Glass Managerie. (g) Pastoral element in Frost's poetry (h) Impact of the great depression on American literature. 4 (DEG 22)

9 (DEG 23) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year English Paper III INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Question No.1 in Unit I is Compulsory. Answer TWO questions each from Units II and III. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Annotate FOUR of the following : UNIT I (a) Yet shall they dream of it until the day! When shall those Children by their mother's side Gather, Oh me! as list at eventide? (b) Mine inner vision rose a form sublime, Thy form, I Tree, as in my happy prime I saw thee, in my own load native Clime. (c) The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds were neither great nor rare. Home is where we have to gather grace. (d) In the transverse midnight gossip of cousin's reunion among brandy fumes, Cashews and the Absences. (e) In the darkened room A woman Cannot find her reflection in the mirror.

10 (f) The languages I speak. Becomes mine, mine alone. If is half - English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest. (g) The supreme man is to come. His Chariot is on the move, but He has not yet arrived. (h) Only through great suffering is measured the truth of his happiness. There is Continual tension between man's natural condition and his true character. UNIT II 2. Write an essay on the poetic skills of Toru Dutl in the poems prescribed. 3. Examine the epic style of Aurobindo in either Rose of God or Thought the Paraclete. 4. Discuss the Conic perception and serious. thought expressed by Ezekiel in his poetry. 5. Consider Kamal Das as me of the most Aggressively individualistic poets. 6. Examine A.K. Ramanujan as essentially a poet of memory. 7. Write an essay on Tagore's views on Man. 8. Bring out the mystical and metaphysical UNIT III features in Aurobindo's The symbol Dawn. 2 (DEG 23)

11 9. Comment on the view that Gitajanli is a devotional poem which sees the divine in the human and the human in the divine. 10. Attempt an essay on the relevance of the Character of Devadatta and Kajula to the central theme of Hayavadana. 11. Consider Raja Rao's On the Ganga Ghat as a Triumph of his mastery of the craft of fiction. 12. Examine the comic detachment and unpretentious. narrative art of marayan in A Tiger for Malgudi. 13. Examine the character of Bakha in Anand's untouchable as a representative of Indian Youth. 14. Critically comment on the theme of alienation in Anita Desai's A Fire on the Mountain. 15. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Art of characterization in That Long silence. Theme of Autobiography of a yogi. Narrative technique in The Last Labyrinth. Imagery in Jayanta Mahapatra. Theme of The Might of the Scorpion. Significant views of Ambedkar's views. Tagore's The King of Drak Chamber. Modern Indian English Novel. 3 (DEG 23)

12 (DEG 24) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year English Paper IV TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer Question No. 1 from Unit I, TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate FOUR of the following : (a) (b) In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Leach the free man how to praise. It turned away from the blithe country And down the other air and the blue altered sky Streamed again a wonder of summer.

13 (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) His ankles, bound with sacking and hairy hand Rubbed each other, resettling. The wind hardened; A puff shook a glittering from the thorns. Drinking the sea and eating the rock A tree struggles to make leaves An old woman follow from space. A serious house on serious earth it is In whose blent air all our compulsions meet Are recognised, and robed as destinies. Success so hugi and wholly farcical The women shared The secret like a happy funeral. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, Sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first rate brand. It s true that all girls are fond of courage and do hate the like of you. 2 (DEG 24)

14 UNIT II 2. What is yeats achievement as narrative by W.H. Auden in his poem? Explain. 3. Discuss the theme of remembered childhood in Dylan Thomas Poem in October. 4. Examine the salient features of the poetry of Robert Granes. 5. Discuss the poetic qualities of Ted Hughes. 6. The playboy of the Western World is extravagant comedy with elements of force. Discuss. 7. Comment on the influence of the Irish Theatre on the Playwrights. UNIT III 8. How do you consider Thomas Gunn as a Movement poet? Explain. 9. Critically comment on the central theme in A Phoenix Too frequent. 10. Write an essay on the dramatic structure in Happy Days. 11. Write a note on the art of characterisation in The Birthday Party. 12. Discuss the poetic art of Stephen Spender. 3 (DEG 24)

15 13. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Imagery in Philip Larkin. Stephen Spender as a modern poet. Theme of decadence in modern drama. Symbolism in modern playwrights. Tragic obsession in modern drama. Nihilistic glamour in Thomas Gunn. Absurdity in Beckett. Theatre of menace. 4 (DEG 24)

16 (DEG 25) M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE Second Year English Paper V TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE AND FICTION Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Question No.1 in Unit I is Compulsory. Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from Unit III. All questions carry equal marks. UNIT I 1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (a) Aristotle had what is called the scientific mind a mind which, as it is rarely found among scientists except in fragments, might better be called the intelligent mind. (b) He is now inclined to believe that the historical and The philosophical critics had better be called historians and philosophers quite simply. (c) Nevertheless, the drama is perhaps the most Permanent, is Capable of greater variation and of expressing more varied types of society, than any other. (d) Why he attemped it at all is an insoluble puzzle; under compulsion of what experience he attempted to express the inexpressibly horrible, we cannot ever know. (e) The reasons perhaps why know so little of Shakespeare-compared with Donne or Ben Jon son or Milton- is that his grudges and spites and antipathies are hidden from us.

17 (f) She should have been taught to look at the stars and reason scientifically. Her writs were turned with solitude and freedom. (g) The poet was have been taught to look at the stars and reason scientifically. Her hits were turned with more often than not that he was unattractive to them. (h) The Fascist poem, one may fear, will he a horrid Little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar. UNIT II 2. Bring out the salient features of Eliot's The Perfect Critic. 3. Explain Eliot's views in The Possibility of Poetic Drama. 4. Consider Eliot as a great literary critic from your study of Hamlet and His Problems. 5. What light does A Room of One's Own throw on the problems faced by women writers? Examine. 6. Evaluate virginia woolf as a master literary critic from your study of A Room of One's Own. UNIT III 7. Examine Eminent Victorians as a masterpiece of Lytton Strachey. 8. Discuss the psychological features of Conrad's Lord Jim. 9. Write an essay on the thematic concerns in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10. Consider The Moon and Six Pence as a symbolical novel. 11. C.P. Snow's intelligence is bots institutional and human. Illustrate. 12. Write an essay on the art of characteristics in The Sand Castle. 2 (DEG 25)

18 13. Discuss the significance of the title Lord of the Flies. 14. Bring out the conflict between the Church and the state in Greene's The power and the Glory. 15. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Problems in Hamlet. Biography as Literature. Significance of the title A Portrait of the Artist. Feminist criticism. Golding's narrative technique. Stephen De dalus. Theme of Lord Jim. The Mexican backdrop in The Power and the Glory. 3 (DEG 25)