DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English) B.A. (English) (Addl. Degree) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
AMERICAN AND COMMON WEALTH LITERATURES
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Assess Whitman as poet with reference to "Crossing
Booklyn Feory".
2. Trace the evolution of thought in the poem "Poetry".
3. Write a short note on Smith's innate wish.
4. How does David help to overcome the King's despair?
5. Discuss Babitt's views of the critic and the American life.
6. Consider The Old Man and the Sea as an Allegory.
7. Comment on the significance of the Dance of the Lost
Traveller.
8. Discuss the art of characterization of Sharon in
Blood Relations.
Sub. Code
33 109
DE-2383
2
SP 5
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Write the critical appreciation of the poem
"Mending Wall".
10. Discuss Derek Walcott's inner conflict as recorded by him
in his poem "A Far cry from Africa".
11. Explain the attitude of the mother to the child, as
pictured by Chinua Achebe in his poem "Refugee Mother
and Child".
12. Consider "The American Scholar" as a document of
Transcendentalism.
13. Summarise Irving Babbitt's "The critic and American
Life".
14. Explain how Patrick white Projects the movement of
opinion in Voss.
15. Discuss the dramatic techniques of O'Neill with reference
to The Emperor Jones.