We drew lots, who would go and see him.
It was me. I got up from our table.
It was almost time for visiting hours.
He said nothing in reply to my greeting.
I tried to take his hand he pulled it back
like a hungry dog who wouldn't give up a bone.
He seemed ashamed of dying.
I don't know what you say to someone like him.
As in a photomontage, our eyes would not meet.
He didn't ask me to stay or go.
He didn't ask about anyone at our table.
Not about you, Bolek. Not about you, Tolek. Not about you, Lolek.
My head began to ache. Who was dying for whom
I praised medicine and the three violets in the glass.
I talked about the sun and thought dark thoughts.
How good there's a staircase to run down.
How good there's a gate to be opened.
How good you're all waiting for me at our table.
The smell of a hospital makes me sick.

1. Comment on the form of the poem.

2. Comment on the connection between line length and the tempo of the poem.

3. Select a simile from the poem and analyse it.

4. What is the function of the repetition of the words 'How good' at the end of the poem

5. Analyze how the poet conveys emotion through simple language.

6. What is the function of the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales.

7. Comment on the rejection of Falstaff.

8. Analyse the significance of the Invocation in Paradise Lost Book I.

9. Define the heroic couplet with examples.

10. Comment on De Quincey's essay "On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth."

11. Why is the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood so called

12. Comment on the 'Woman Question in the Victorian Age.

13. What is Joycean Epiphany

14. "O body swayed to music, O brightening glace, How can we know the dancer from the dance Critically comment on the above lines by W.B. Yeats.

15. What feminist concerns inform The Golden Notebook

16. What significance would you attach to the birds of prey in Ted Hughes' poetry

17. What does Dr. Johnson say about Shakespeare's use of the Unities

18. What is formalism Answer with the help of examples.

19. Write a note on Imagism.

20. Who is logocentrism

21. Comment on the influence of Latin on the English language with suitable examples.
22. Explain the principles of the communicative approach to language teaching and discuss its relevance in the Indian context.
23. What do you understand by the term 'English for Specific Purposes' Explain its relevance to the teaching of English.
24. Write an essay on the factors that have affected English spelling.
25. Comment on the relevance of Proficiency Tests in classroom teaching.
21. Write a critical essay on the French Symbolist Movement.
22. What are the features of the Theatre of the Absurd in Europe Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.
23. Discuss Kafka's vision of a disordered universe with suitable examples.
24. Examine Rilke's concept of art and nature in the Duino Elegies.
25. Comment on the metaphor of illness in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's fiction.
21. What significance did the earliest writers of English attach to the Independence of India Answer with reference to at least two texts from fiction, non-fiction of poetry.
22. What modernist themes do you find in the poetry of A.K. Ramanujan and Arun Kolatkar
23. Write an essay on Subaltern representatives in Indian Literature in English.
24. Do you agree with the view that the best Indian plays in English are those in English translation Argue with reference to at least two plays.
25. Discuss the use of history in Midnight's Children and The Shadow Lines.
21. Analyse the clash between America and Europe in any two novels by Henry James.
22. Write a critical essay on Emily Dickinson's style.
23. How does Arthur Miller critique the American Dream in his plays
24. Examine the literature of apartheid in South Africa.
25. Examine Judith Wright's fascination for the natural forms of life.
21. What changes did Wordsworth and Coleridge propose in poetic diction
22. What are the major principles of New Criticism How have they been challenged by later theorists
23. Critically analyse the contribution of the French Feminists to contemporary theory.
24. How has the reader changed since theory Argue your case with examples.
25. What is Eco-criticism Discuss with reference to any two texts.

26. Protocols of reading.

27. Journals, diaries and fiction.

28. Post-structuralism and literary studies.

29. Translation as discovery.

30. Gender and power.