2005

ENGLISH Paper I
(Literature)
:3 Hours j i.faximl1m Marks: 300
INSTRUCTIONS Candidates should attempt all questions from Part Band
C. Part D attempt any three out of five questions.
The number of marks carried by each question is indicated
at the end of the question,
Answers must be written in English.

PART A

AnSlocr each question in about 50 words. Each question carries 5 marks.
1. Explain 'iVordsworth's viev·/s on poetic diction in his Preface to
Lyrical Ballads,

Explain the distinction made by Coleridge between Fancy and Imagination.


What is 'negative capability'


What according to Matthew Arnold is the estimate of poetry




PART B lOxlO=lOO
Answer each 10 marks. question in about 100 words. Each question carnes
1. Annotate with reference to context the following passage:
"My own voice cheered me, and, far more, the mind's
Internal echo of the imperfect sound;
To both I listened, drawing from them both
A cheerful confidence in things to come"
2. Annotate with reference to context the following passage "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abara."
3. Annotate with reference to context the following passage
"Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine
4. Annotate with reference to context the following passage: "I repeat, The count your master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object."

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Discuss brieily' Shelley's view that the poet IS the unacknowledged legislator of the vorld.
6.
From your reading of the Essays of Elia, what m your VlCW, is Lamb's attitude to London?

7.
Discuss briefly the 'Romantic crisis' poem.

8.
What is the ada! debate at the heart of "Ode to the West Wind"

9.
Vnte a brief character sketch of Becky Sharp.

10.
Examine the satire of contemporary society in any Dickens novel.


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PART C 6x15==90
Answer each Ut about 150 words. Each question carnes IS marhs.
1.
Using any two poems, attempt an essay on the treatment of Nature in Romantic poetry.

2.
Vhat precisely was the significance of the 'Art for Art's Sake' Movement?

3.
Why is the 1890s decade called 'Decadent'

4.
a note on Ruskin as a prophetic voice.

5.
Vv'rite a brief note on theme and structure in Tennyson's "In Memoriam".

6.
Using any essay of HazEtt, write a brief note on his style.


PAUT D ,'Jx30=.90
i!lSWer UIlY three the lollowing questions, Hoell questlOll carries 30 marh8. each In ahoul 300
I. Examine the changing vievs on tlw language CC'ntur,Y thought giving suitable example". of poetry in Nineteenth
Haymond Schwabb terms the Nineteenth Century as Rt'nnaissance", Is this an apt description of the period examples to support your answer. the "Oriental GivC' enough
Vhat are the principal moral issues represented Literature? Vrite a vell-documented essay. m Nineteenth Century
-to Write an essay on the Nineteenth Century working-class novel.
5. Write a Century. vell-documented essay on .Tomen writers of the Nineteenth


2005

ENGLISH
Paper II (Literature)
Time: 3 Hours jrI14aximum ll[arhs 300
INSTRUCTIONS Candidates should attempt all questions from Part Band
C. Part D attempt any three out ofth'c questions.
The number of marks carried by each question is indicated
at the end of the question.
Answers mllst be written in English.



PART A 4x5=20
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Answer each question in about 50 words. Each question carries 5 marks.
'What is the 1.Iiltonic Simile?
Explain the Epigraph to The IVaste Land.

Explain briefly Yeats' theory of gyres.


Write a brief note on the significance of the title of As You Like It.


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PART B 1Ox10=100
Answer each question in about 100 words. Each questwn carnes 10 marhs.
1. Annotate with reference to the context the following passage
"Alas the day! What shall I do with my doublet and hose? What did he when thou Saw'5t him? Vhat said he How look'd he "Vherein went he Vhat makes he here? Did he ask for me \Ttere remains he How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word."
2.
Annotate with reference to the context the following passage "And, like bright metal, on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will."

3.
Annotate with reference to context the following passage: "I know thee not,old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane; But, being awak'd, I do despise my dreams.


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L .1lIlot8te with reference to context the following passage
"You taught me language, and my
profit on't
Is, I know to curse. The red plague
rid .you
For learning me your language,
5. Annotate with to context the following passage
"Get thee to a nunnery. Why vouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest,
but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were
better my mother had not borne me."
6. Annotate with reference to context the following passage
"00 0 0 that Shakespeherian Rag­
It's so elegant
So intelligent
7. Annotate with reference to context the following passage "These fragments I have shored against my ruins \11y then Ile fit you. Hieronyma's mad againe. Datta Dayadhvan Damyata. Shantih Shantih Shantih
B. Annotate with reference to context the following passage "Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew, Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal."

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9.
Annotate vith reference to context the fol1oving passage "1 starhL or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins"

10.
Annotate reference to context the fol1ov.,ring passage "It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat Vhereby the thorn of Plenty is undone"


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Answcr eGch rl/arks. qucstion Ul PART C Gbout 150 words. Each question 6xI5=.9IJ carnes
I. Write a critical appreciation of lIamlet's be or not to soliloquy.
2. Explain the role of Ariel in The Tempest.
a. Examine the Epic conventions used by f.Tilton in Paradise Lost.
-1. Discuss the 'Spots of time' passages in The Prelude.
a. Give an appraisal of the character of Frank Churchill in Emma.
6. Write a brief note on the theme of human relationships in The Rainbow.

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