(6 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 (a), (b) and (c). (a) (i) Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plum, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold vermillion.
(b) (i) (ii) Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews sons mine ah God I know not! Well She, men would have to be your mother once, Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was! What's done is done, and she is dead beside, Dead long ago, and I a Bishop since, And as she died so must we die ourselves, And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream. (iii) (I saw her smile.) But soon their path Was vague in distant spheres: And then she cast her arms along The golden barriers, And laid her face between her hands, And wept. (I heard her tears.) I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. 2
(c) (i) (ii) Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers. (iii) That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Our leading class is an aristocracy, and no aristocracy likes the notion of a State authority greater than itself, with a stringent administrative machinery superseding the decorative inutilities of lord lieutenancy, deputy lieutenancy, and the posse comitatis, which are all in its own hands. (ii) Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin Redbreast; till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it. Here Alice put out one of her dear mother's looks, too tender to be called upbraiding. 3
(iii) Pig let me speak his praise is no less provocative of the appetite than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices. SECTION B (5 5 = 25 marks) 2. Write short note on any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each. (a) Write a note on the super natural machinery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (b) Show from two of three passages in The Prelude, the characteristic qualities of Wordsworth's landscape description. (c) "The Importance of Being Ernest as a farce" Discuss. (d) Sketch the character of Demogorgon in Prometheus Unbound. (e) How does Hazlitt describe his first meeting with Coleridge? (f) Comment on Ruskin's prose style. 4 [P.T.O.]
(g) Sketch the character of Frankenstein. (h) Why does Marlow travel primarily by boat and seldom on land in Heart of Darkness? SECTION C (4 15 = 60 marks) 3. Attempt ONE of the following in about 1,200 words: (a) (i) (b) (i) How does Wordsworth develop the idea 'the child is the father of man' in his Ode the Intimations of Immortality? (ii) Assess the poetic traits of Arnold with special reference to "The Scholar Gipsy" (iii) Critically evaluate the prescribed poems of Christina Rossetti. Analyse the concept of imagination in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. (ii) The Importance of Being Ernest as a Satire Discuss. (iii) Write an essay on the significance of the title "The Importance of Being Ernest". 5
(c) (i) Comment on Arnold's Prose style. (d) (i) (ii) Is Lamb still popular? Why? (iii) Evaluate Thomas Carlyle as an essayist. Explain the art of characterization by Jane Austen. (ii) Would you agree that Middlemarch represents the author's genius? Give reasons for your answer. (iii) Write a critical note on Hardy's craftsmanship as exhibited in Jude the Obscure. 6