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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
Second Year
ENGLISH
American Literature
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
Question No. 1 in Section-I is compulsory.
Answer any two questions from each
Section-II and Section-III.
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION I
Q1) Annotate any Four of the following:
The undertone, the savage old mother incessantly crying,
To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret
hissing,
To the outsetting bard.
I cease from my song for thee;
From my gaze on thee in the west, communing with thee,
O comrade lustrous, with silver face in the night.
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I don't know how to speak of anything
So as to please you. But I might be taught.
But the world's evil. I won't have grief so
If I can change it. Oh, I I
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
The grass don't grow anymore, you can't raise a carrot in the backyard.
They should've had a law against apartment houses.
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There's more people! That's what's ruining this country! Population is
getting out of control. The competition is maddening.
SECTION II
Q2) Analyse the salient features of Walt Whitman's poetry.
Q3) Critically examine the philosophy of life of Robert Frost in his poem
"Birches".
Q4) "The American scholar as a study of American Renaissance". Discuss.
Q5) Examine Death of a Salesman as a tragedy of common man.
Q6) Trace the growth and development of American drama.
SECTION III
Q7) Analyse critically the theme of death in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Q8) "Thoreau's individuality was always at war with social institution". Explain with
reference to Walden.
Q9) Bring out Hemingway's symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea.
Q10) Discuss the theme of quest for identity in The Hairy Ape.
Q11) How do you support the title The Glass Menagerie for the play?
Q12) Write short notes on any Four of the following:
American Dream.
Impressionism.
American Romantics.
Themes in Dickinson's poetry.
Domestic concerns in American Literature.
Mysticism.
The Absurd.
'The Philosophy of Composition'.