Total No. of Questions 12] [Total No. of Pages 02
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
(First Year)
ENGLISH
Modern Literature II (1700 1850)
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:
Of Beechen green and shadows numberless
Singest of summer in full throated ease.
Conspiring with him how to load and bless.
With fruit the vines that round the thatchfaves run.
No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colour
of green field.
Those who was that they may employ conjecture to a certain degree, were willing to
indulge it a little further.
When I ran away with your mother, I would not have touched anything old or
uglyto gain an empire.
Had I thousand daughters, by
Heaven! as soon have them taught
The black art as their alphabet!
The faults are more than could have happened without the concurrence of many
causes.
What little town river or seashore, or mountain-built with
Peaceful citadel is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
SECTION-B
Q2) Critically appreciate Keats' great five odes.
Q3) Discuss wordsworth's The prelude as poetic autobiography.
Q4) Why is Johnson called a neo-classic critic? Justify this statement with reference to
'Preface to shakespeare'.
Q5) "The Rivals" is a comedy of manners Comment.
Q6) Examine the romantic element in the odes of Keats'.
SECTION-C
Q7) Make a note on Pope's personal element in the poem The Rape of the Lock.
Q8) Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Q9) Austen's writing shows a hold on characterization. Justify with reference to Emma.
Q10) Write an essay on Lamb's humour and wit in his essays.
Q11) Critically examine goldsmith's art of characterization in She Stoops to Conquer.
Q12) Discuss "Adonais" as a pastoral elegy.