The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write like disaster.

1. What are the losses the poet mentions in the poem
2. Comment on the function of repetition in the poem.

3. Comment on the form of the poem.

4. What is the significance of the phrase "('Write it in the last line

5. Suggest a suitable title for the poem and justify it.

6. What is the role played by the younger generation in the last plays of Shakespeare

7.
Bring out the significance of any One epic Simile in Paradise Lost.



8. Define and illustrate the comedy of Humours.

9. How does irony function in A Modest Proposal

10. Enumerate the features of the Periodical Essay.

11. What is the female Gothic Answer with the help of examples.


12. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Comment.

13. Who were the aesthetes What beliefs did they hold



14. Comment on the use of pause and silence in the plays of Harold Pinter.

15. Define 'Carnivalesque' with the help of examples.

16. Define gynocriticism with the help of examples.

17. Critically comment on the wrestling scene between Gerald and Birkin in Women in Love.

18. What significance do you attach to the chorus of murder in the cathedral being women

19. What is the picaresque novel Answer with the help of examples.



20. Write a note on the Great Exhibition of 1851.


21. What is Grimm's Law How did Verner modify this Law

22. What impact did the Norman conquest have on middle English Explain with appropriate examples.

23. How do words change their meanings What impact do these changes have on current usage

24. What are the basic objectives of a Language Test How are they met most successfully in short papers set for a class test

25. What are 'World Englishes' How has this concept revolntionalized teaching practices


26. European Literature from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century
21. What dramatic function does the Chorus serve in Greek plays Illustrate with reference to any one play.

22. Examine the human condition in any one Novel of the European realist tradition.

23. Do you agree with the view that Madame Bovary inaugurates a tradition of exploitative themes in the modern novel

24. Comment on the 'flaneur' as a stock character in the city poems of Bandelaire.

25. examine the innovations in technique in the work of Pirandello.


26. Indian Writing in English and Indian Literature in English Translation

21. Discuss the East-West theme in post-Independence Indian English writing.

22. How do Indian English women writers respond to patriarchy

23. Critically discuss at least two autobiographies in Indian English or in English translation.

24. What contribution have Indian writers made to English prose Discuss with reference to at least two writers, one from the pre-Independence and the other from the post-Independence period.

25. Analyse the ways in which Girish Karnad refashions Indian history and myth in his plays.


26. American and other Non-British English Literature

21. How dose O'Neill combine myth and modernity in his plays Answer with the help of examples.

22. What is the significance of the frontier in the literature of the United States

23. Critically analyse the contribution of African American women writers to American literature.

24. Analyse why Naipaul's A House for Mr.Biswas is a key test in New Literatures in English.

25. Critically analyse the contribution of African writers/intellectuals to the theories of decolonization.



26. Elective Literary Theory and Criticism
21. How did Sidney and Dryden reformulate Aristotle's idea of mimesis

22. Assess T. S. Eliot's contribution to twentieth century criticism.

23. Write a note on British .arxist critics after .aymond Williams.

24. Write a note on Deconstructive criticism in the United States.

25. Examine the salient tenets of post colonial theory with illustrations.


26. English Studies today OR
The indispensable eighteenth century

27. antasy in literature

28. eminism and feminisms

29. Island Castaways