DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English/B.A. (English) Addl. Degree) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
AMERICAN AND COMMON WEALTH LITERATURES
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. What is the central theme of the poem ''Mending
2. What characteristics of the mirror and its owner are
revealed in the poem by Sylvia Plath?
3. Why does the author Judith Wright insist on time and its
effect?
4. What is the reference to in the poem Far Cry
from Africa'' by Derek Walcott?
5. Write one Irving Babbit's views in 'The Critic and
American Life'.
6. How does Catherine represents marriage in Bliss?
7. Critically examine the role of Manolin in Old Man and
the Sea.
8. What are the main themes developed in Lion and
the by Wole Soyinka?
Sub. Code
33/109
DE-3283
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions.
9. What are the most significant features of Sylvia Plath's

10. What is definition of poetry according to Marianne
Moore's poem
11. Comment on the Yeatsian presence in A.J.M. Smith's
an Old, Proud King in a Parable''.
12. Describe the message conveyed in the poem the
Month of
13. Describe the characteristics of American Scholar'' by
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
14. Critically examine the plot structure of Margaret
Atwood's The Blind Assassin.
15. Discuss Eugene O'Neill's technique in The Emperor
Jones.