P/ID 4212/PNB. (7 pages) MAY SECTION A (3 5 = 15 marks)

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1 (7 pages) MAY 2012 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (3 5 = 15 marks) 1. Annotate THREE of the following passages choosing from ONE each from, and. (i) Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens, That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence. (ii) Whether the nymph shall break Diana s law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom d that Shock must fall.

2 (iii) I ll shade him from the heat, till he can bear To lean in joy upon our father s knee; And then I ll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. (i) Nature has cast me in so soft a mould, That but to hear a story, feigned for pleasure, Of some sad lover s death, moistens my eyes, And robs me of my manhood. I should speak So faintly, with such fear to grieve her heart, She d not believe it earnest. (ii) If he be vanquished, Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil, While Antony stood firm, our Alexandria Rivaled proud Rome (Dominion s other seat) And Fortune striding, like a vast Colossus, Could fix an equal foot of empire here. 2

3 (iii) Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst, Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst: For they re a sort of fools which fortune makes, And, after she has made em fools, forsakes. With Nature s oafs tis quite a diff rent case, For Fortune favours all her idiot race. (i) The most antient and natural Grounds of Quarrels, are Lust and Avarice; which, tho we may allow to be Brethren or Collateral Branches of Pride, are certainly the Issues of Want. For, to speak in the Phrase of Writers upon the Politicks, we may observe in the Republick of Dogs, (which in its Original seems to be an Institution of the Many) that the whole State is ever in the profoundest Peace, after a full Meal; and that Civil Broils arise among them, when it happens for one great Bone to be seized on by some leading Dog, who either divides it among the Few and then it falls to an Oligarchy, or keeps it to Himself 3

4 and then it runs up to a Tyranny. The same Reasoning also, holds Place among them, in those Dissensions we behold upon a Turgescency in any of their Females. (ii) instill the poison they suck, first into the Courts of Princes, acquainting them with the choisest delights and criticisms of sin. As perhaps did that Petronius whom Nero call d his Arbiter, the Master of his revels; and that notorious ribald of Arezzo, dreaded and yet dear to the Italian Courtiers. (iii) Day being far spent and the numerous forces of the Moderns half inclining to a retreat, there issued forth, from a squadron of their heavy-armed foot, a captain whose name was Bentley, the most deformed of all the Moderns: tall, but without shape or comeliness; large, but without strength or proportion. His armour was patched up of a thousand incoherent pieces and the sound of it, as he marched, was loud and dry, like that made by the fall of a sheet of lead, which an Etesian wind blows suddenly down from the roof of some steeple. His helmet 4 [P.T.O.]

5 was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips. SECTION B (5 5 = 25 marks) 2. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each : (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Consider The Tiger as a representative of the Songs of Experience. Bring out the central idea of the poem To Althea, From Prison. Justify the title of She Stoops to Conquer. Make a comment on the Prologue to the School for Scandal. Comment on the style of Burke. Attempt a critique of Sir Rodger at the church. Comment on Sterne s wayward typography in Tristram Shandy. How does Crusoe exhibit his paternalism? 5

6 SECTION C (4 15 = 60 marks) 3. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 words. Paradise Lost as an Epic Discuss with special reference to Book IX. Why is the Rape of the Lock of Mock-epic? Account the popularity of Gray s Elegy. 4. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 words : What is an anti-sentimental comedy? How is the School for Scandal? Discuss The Way of the World as a comedy of manners. Consider All for Love as a tragedy in which the climax occurs before the action begins. 5. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 words : What do Addison and Steele aim to achieve in their essays? What is Milton s argument about freedom and knowing good or evil? How does he make a connection between freedom and Adam s first sin and the need for freedom of the press? Consider The Battle of Books as a literary satire. 6

7 6. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 words : Attempt an appreciation of Joseph Andrews. Many pages of Gulliver s Travels continue to appeal to us for reasons which have little to do with satiric significance. Discuss. Robinson Crusoe is a prudent hero whose prudence rather than his heroism is the key to his actions. Discuss. 7

P/ID 4212/PNB. (6 pages) OCTOBER SECTION A (3 5 = 15 marks)

P/ID 4212/PNB. (6 pages) OCTOBER SECTION A (3 5 = 15 marks) (6 pages) OCTOBER 2011 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (3 5 = 15 marks) 1. Annotate THREE of the following passages choosing from ONE each from (a), (b) and (c). (a) (i) "To pales, or