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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
Second Year
ENGLISH
Indian English Literature
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
Question No.1 in Unit-I is compulsory.
Answer any two questions from each Unit-II and Unit-III.
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
Q1) Annotate any Four of the following:
When first my casement is wide open thrown
At dawn, my eyes delighted on it rest;
Sometimes, and most in winter, on its crest.
Live in the mind of our earthhood; O golden Mystery, flower,
Sun on the head of the Timeless, guest of the marvellous Hour.
We stood it very well, I thought,
Observed and put down copious notes
On things the peasants sold and bought.
I dreamed one day that face my own yet hers
With my own nowhere to be found
lost, cut, loose like my dragnet past.
He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
Being the burning type,
he burned properly
at the cremation
And it is Janardan who persuaded us to come to this precious country!
We never had any second person like him in our family. You knew my
father, of course; he was a great man, a pious man if ever there was
one.
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Eh, man, who do you think you are? You weren't of course born with
such lofty strides, my friend? Why should we stand off, my dear sir?
Why should we budge? Are we street dogs, or what?
UNIT II
Q2) Analyse the salient features of Toru Dutt's poetry.
Q3) A.K. Ramanujan's "Striders" is an account of the contemporary feature of
India in each and every field against the backdrop of a large and glorious
past. Discuss.
Q4) Discuss Ezekiel's search for philosophy in his poem "Enterprise".
Q5) Explain the thematic concerns of Jayanta Mahapatra in the poems
prescribed for your study.
Q6) Comment on Tagore's art of characterization in The King of the Dark
Chamber.
Q7) Discuss the philosophical framework of Tagore's The Man.
UNIT III
Q8) Write an essay on Rabindranath Tagore's spiritual beliefs as presented in
"Gitanjali".
Q9) Critically comment on Mulk Raj Anand's social realism in Untouchable.
Q10) Consider the novel A Tiger for Malgudi as a fable of modern times.
Q11) What is the central theme of Anita Desai's A Fire on the Mountain?
Q12) Justify the title of the novel That Long Silence.
Q13) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:
Ephiphomic Poem.
Indian drama in English.
Identity crisis.
East-West Encounter in Indian English.
Allegory.
Salvation Army.
Feminism.
Psychological Novel.