M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
First Semester
English
BRITISH POETRY
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer the following questions in a sentence or two each.
1. Who assemble in Tabard Inn?
2. What is wrong with the Monk?
3. Whom does Camus represent?
4. What did the poet see in the meadow in Prothalamion?
5. What do you mean by the term 'the tuneful voice' in
Dryden's poem?
6. How many canto versions has The Rape of the Lock?
7. How does Keats describe the Nightingale?
8. Where has the Skylark flown?
9. When was the Deutschland wrecked?
10. Why did the magi take up the long journey?
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Part B x 5 25)
Answer the following questions briefly.
11. How does Chaucer glorify the Parson and his
brother, the Plowman?
Or
What are the vices of the Summoner.
12. List out the types of clergy as portrayed by Milton
in Lycidas.
Or
Write a short note on the Tribute paid to Essex.
13. How does Dryden show his awareness and the
greatness of music?
Or
Write a short note on the verse of the Rape of the
Lock.
14. What is Aurora's reaction to Tithonu's plight?
Or
Why does Keats praise the nightingale's song as
immortal?
15. Comment on the Five Franciscan Nuns in G.M.
Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland.
Or
Explain the poetic devices used by T.S.Eliot in the
poem 'The Journey of the Magi'.
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Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in detail.
16. Consider The Prologue to Canterbury Tales as a crosssection
of the Fourteenth Century England of Chaucer's
time.
17. Consider Lycidas as a pastoral elegy.
18. Illustrate the stylistic features of the poem A Song for St.
Cecilia's Day.
19. Write a critical appreciation of the poem Resolution and
Independence.
20. Discuss the evolution of thought in Ted Hughes' Hawk
Roosting.
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