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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
Second Year
ENGLISH
Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Question No.1 in Section- I is compulsory.
Answer any Two questions from each Section II and Section III
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION I
Q1) Annotate any four of the following:
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
With water praying and call of seagull and rock
And the knock of sailing boats on the webbed wall
That sagged ominously upon the earth
Even when the season was the airiest May.
From where i stand the roof looks almost
Cleaned or restored? Someone would know: I don't
Until the next town, new and nondescript,
Approached with acres of dismantled cars.
There is a sort of counter on the right with shelves, holding many bottles and jugs,
just seen above it. Empty barrels stand near the counter.
He's right too, and have you no shame, Michael James, to be quitting off for the
whole night, and leaving myself lonesome in the shop?
A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower
Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.
SECTION II
Q2) Describe Auden's eulogy for Yeats as you perceive it from Memory of W.B Yeats'.
Q3) How does Dylan Thomas establish creation and destination as the twin and inalienable
aspects of all life forms?
Q4) Comment on the craftsmanship of Robert Graves.
Q5) Write a critical note on the imagery used by Ted Hughes in the poems prescribed for
your study.
Q6) Describe Philip Larkin's views on growing decadence in religion.
Q7) Examine The Playboy of the Western World as a comedy.
Q8) Critically comment on the common themes of Twentieth century literature.
SECTION III
Q9) Write an essay on Thomas Gunn's poetic technique with special reference to "My Sad
Captains".
Q10) How does Christopher Fry show that the power of life can prevail over the impulse to
useless self-immolation?
Q11) Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem "The Prisoners".
Q12) How does Beckett project human condition as he understands it, in his Happy Days?
Q13) Discuss Pinter's art of characterization in his play The Birthday Party.
Q14) Write short notes on any four of the following:
War poetry
Movement poetry.
Imagism.
Satire in modern drama.
Play of ideas.
Language in modern drama.
Expressionism.
Comedy of menace.