(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 Pomona, thus adorned, Likest she seemed - Pomona when she fled Vertumnus or to Ceres in her prime, Yet virgin of Prosperpina from Jove". (ii) I a child, and thou a Iamb, We are called by His name. (iii) Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray, And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day: (b) (i) I have none, And one would have: My love s a noble madness, Which shows the cause deserved it. Moderate sorrow Fits ulgar love, and for a vulgar man.
(ii) Then your mistress; Your mistress would, she says, have sent her soul, But that you had long since; she humbly begs This ruby bracelet, set with bleeding hearts, The emblems of her own, may bind your arm. (iii) May such malicious fops this fortune find, To think themselves atone the fools designed: If any are so arrogantly vain, To think they singly can support a scene, And furnish fool enough to entertain. For well the learned and the judicious know, That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low, As any one abstracted fop to show. (c) (i) They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting such accesse in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the publick good; I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a 2
little alter d and mov d inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake. And me perhaps each of these dispositions, as the subject was whereon Ienter d, may have at other times variously affected; and likely might in these formost expressions now also disclose which of them sway d most, but that the very attempt of this addresse thus made, and the thought of whom it hath recourse to, hath got the power within me to a passion, farre more welcome then incidentall to a Preface. (ii) All things violently tending to a decisive Battel; Fame, who much frequented, and had a large Apartment formerly assigned her in the Regal Library, fled up strait to Jupiter, to whom she delivered a faithful account of all that passed between the two Parties below. (For, among the Gods, she always tells Truth.) Jove in great concern, convokes a Council in the Milky- Way. The Senate assembled, he declares the Occasion of convening them; a bloody Battle just impendent between two mighty Armies of Atient and Modern Creatures, call d Books, wherein the Celestial Interest was but too deeply concerned. 3
(iii) What advantage is it to be a man over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only scapt the ferular to come under the fescu of an Imprimatur? if serious and elaborat writings, as if they were no more then the theam of a Grammar lad under his Pedagogue must not be utter d without the cursory eyes of a temporizing and extemporizing licenser. SECTION B (5 5 = 25 marks) 2. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each. (a) How does Absalom and Achitophel end? (b) Write an appreciation of the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. (c) Contrast the three young men, Hastings, Marlow and Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer. (d) Justify the title School For Scandal. (e) Comment on Sterne s wayward typography in Tristram Shandy. (f) Bring out the picaresque elements in Robinson Crusoe. (g) Write a brief note on the Spectator Club. (h) Comment on the style of Burke. 4 [P.T.O.]
SECTION C (4 15 = 60 marks) 3. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 (a) Bring out the prominent metaphysical traits in the poems of Andrew Marwell. (b) Discuss the contrary states as depicted in the Songs of Innocence and the "Songs of Experience". (c) Discuss the epic qualities in Paradise Lost Boo IX. 4. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 (a) The Plot of The Way of the World is intricate yet perhaps a little lacking in coherence and strength. Discuss. (b) How do you estimate Dryden as a dramatist from your study of All For Love? (c) Write on the scandalmongers in School for Scandal. 5. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 (a) The Battle of Books is a piece of literary satire, not literary criticism Elucidate and justify. (b) Attempt an essay on Milton s Prose style with reference to Areopagitica. (c) How do Addison and Steele present humour with purpose? 5
6. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 (a) Joseph Andrew is, historically precise about the 18 th Century country manners. Explain. (b) Analyse the satirical elements in Gulliver s Travels. (c) "Tristram Shandy fundamentally criticises humanity". Discuss. 6