Total No. of Questions 12] [Total No. of Pages 02
M.A. (ENGLISH) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
(First Year)
ENGLISH
Modern Literature I (1550-1700)
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Answer question No.1 in section-A is compulsory.
Answer any Two questions from Section-B and Two from Section C
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION-A
Q1) Annotate any Four of the following:
Above th'Aonian Mount, while it pursue
Things unattempted yet in prose or Rhime.
Their conference will be a greater help to me
Than all my labours, plod I ne'er so fast.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.
Deformed persons and eunuchs and old men and bastards are envious.
And the third, simulation, in the affirmative, when a man industriously and
expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.
Being still with you, the muscle, sinew, and vein
Which tile this house, will come again
Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch
On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread.
Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
SECTION-B
Q2) Examine Marlowe's Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance Tragedy.
Q3) Comment on the prose style of Bacon's by choosing illustrations from his essays.
Q4) How do thoughts become experiences in the case of Donne as a poet?
Q5) Discuss the epic features in "Paradise Lost Book I".
Q6) Critically examine Bacon's subjectivity in his essays.
SECTION-C
Q7) Consider Marlowe's Edward II as a historical play.
Q8) Discuss the melodrama in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
Q9) Critically comment on the significance of the prologue in Every Man in his Humour.
Q10) Examine John Webster's imagery in The White Devil
Q11) Consider The Way of the World as a comment on the moral scenario of the
contemporary world.
Q12) Write short notes on any four of the following:
The Essay as literary form
Comedy of manners.
Neo-Classicism.
Sidney's Criticism of Tragi-Comedy.
Blank Verse.
Jacobian Drama.
Three Unities.
University Wits.