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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
Second Year
ENGLISH
Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
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:
And the twice told fields of infancy
That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine…
There's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. Take him
on from this, or the lot of us will be likely put on trial for his dead
today.
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, for poetry makes
nothing happen.
Intellectual disgrace
States from every human face
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
But superstition, like belief, must die
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
Drinking the sea and eating the rock
A tree struggles to make leaves…
But not calling to my mind any person, gentle, simple, judge or
jury, did the like of me.
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SECTION II
Q2) Discuss Auden's competence as a writer of occasional poems.
Q3) Dylan Thomas's "Poem in October" has the freshness and immediacy the
child's vision of nature? Discuss.
Q4) Describe the agony of Robert Graves as it is evidenced in "Recalling War",
for the victims of War.
Q5) Write a critical note on the imagery used by Ted Hughes in the poems
prescribed for your study.
Q6) Comment on the use of irony in Philip Larkin's poetry.
Q7) The Playboy of the Western World shows that "heroes are not burn but
made". Discuss.
Q8) Write an essay on the influence of existentialism on Modern Drama.
SECTION III
Q9) Is Thomas Gunn's poetry marked with violence or energy for its theme?
Discuss.
Q10) Evaluate Spender as a poet of social justice.
Q11) Examine the symbolic significance of Christopher Fry's title A Phoenix too
Frequent.
Q12) What elements of the theatre of the absurd can you find in Happy Days?
Q13) Discuss Pinter's The Birthday Party as a comedy of menace.
Q14) Write short notes on any Four of the following:
Political interest in modern poetry.
Irish Drama.
Naturalism.
Post-war poetry.
Neo-romanticism.
Imagism.
Realism.
Play of Ideas.