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M.A. (ENGLISH) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
First Year
ENGLISH
Modern Literature III (1850-1950)
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
Answer Question No.1 in Section-A compulsory.
Answer two questions from Section-B and two from Section-C.
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
Q1) Annotate any Four of the following:
Yet all experience is an arch wheretho
Gleams that untravelleved world, whose margins fades.
My father and my mother died of want
Well, had I riches of my own? You see
How one gets rich! Let each one bear list lot.
My nerves are badto-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Speak to me. Why do you never speak.
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony
rubbish.
Then your voices command you not to submit yourself to the church
Militiant?
Light your fire do you think I dread it as much as the life of a rat in a
hole?
O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive,
thy saints? How long? O Lord, how long?
In the mountains, there you feel free
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
SECTION B
Q2) Is Ulysses a heroic or a bewildered character? Discuss.
Q3) Account for popularity of Browning's "Andrea Del Santro".
Q4) Consider "Gog" as a jaguarish poem.
Q5) What possibilities of redemption for mankind does Eliot suggests in "The
Wasteland"?
Q6) Give an account of Joan's martyrdom.
Q7) Explain the concept of style according to Pater.
SECTION C
Q8) Critically comment on the elements of myth and history in Yeat's "Sailing to
Byzantium".
Q9) Bring out the narrative technique in The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Q10) Write an essay on the depiction of women characters in Sons and Lovers.
Q11) Fiction is truer than facts. Does this statement apply To the Lighthouse?
Q12) Examine the plot and structure of the play The Cocktail Party.
Q13) Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play.
Q14) Write short notes on Four of the following:
Symbolism in modern poetry.
Dramatic monologue.
Movement poets.
Dissociation of sensibility.
Problem play.
Art for Art's sake movement.
Mysticism.
Impressionism.