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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
M.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECONDSEMESTER APRIL 2018
17/16PEL2MC01/EL2808 BRITISH POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO 20TH CENTURY
Date: 17-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
I. Interpret the following in 60 words each: (10X2=20)
1. Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England. It held
Pike too immense to stir,
2. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine. 3. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight 4. Will the veiled sister between the slender
Yew trees pray for those who offend her
5. ... My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
6. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
7. Lots of folk live up lanes
With fires in a bucket,
8. We can die by it, if not live by love,
9. O Attic shape! Fair attitude!
10. Rather at once our Time devour,
II. Answer any EIGHT of the following (four from each section) in 200 words each:
SECTION A
11. Comment on the significance of the title Ash Wednesday.
12. Write a critique on the poem Pike. 13. ''Blackberry-Picking' is about youth's hopeful optimism''. Comment. 14. Peasant portrays an archetypal rural man's life. Discuss. 15. Write an essay on the structure and symbols in The Windhover.
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SECTION B 16. Philip Larkin chose to use a toad to represent work. Did he make a good choice? Why or Why not.
17. Discuss pictorial art of John Keats.
18. What makes Ulysses think it is futile to be the king of Ithaca?
19. Comment on John Donne's poem 'The Canonization' 20. Discuss the syllogistic pattern of Andrew Marvell's poem His Coy Mistress'.
III. Answer any FOUR of the following (two from each section) in 300 words each: (4X10=40)
SECTION A
21. Select any poem prescribed in the syllabus and critically evaluate the same observing the salient features
of the genre.
22. Consider the typical aspects of Romantic poetry as observed through the poems TinternAbbey and To a
Skylark.
23. Justify the faith of John Milton in his poem Light.
SECTION B
24. Write a critical note on Andrew Marvell as a poet of Nature.
25. Show that the great odes of Keats are a sequence showing an inter-relationship of mood and subject. 26. Attempt a critical appreciation of the Sonnet-116