Exam Details
| Subject | english | |
| Paper | paper 2 | |
| Exam / Course | civil services main literature | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | union public service commission | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | 2010 | |
| City, State | central government, |
Question Paper
CS main EXAM, 2010
ENGlISH (Literature) Paper II
SECTION A
1. Write short notes on the following 20x3=60
P.rufrock's struggle to find a proper emotion for the occasion he wants to celebrate.
Yeats t preoccupation with old age and death in The Tower.
The Shield of Achilles and the poees handling of dark premonition.
2. Who are the uPoets of the Thirties n and wli.at is their contribution to English literature Explain. 40
Comment on the elements of modern English poetry in Philip Larkin's poems prescribed for your study. 20
3. With examples) highlight the major post-colonial approaches to Indian English literature. 60
4. What is 'Kitchen-sink realism' Comment on this phenomenon in the light of Look Back in Anger. 40
If Waiting for Godot is considered to be a play on the absurdity of exploring life for examine if there is a standpoint for this exploration. meaning, 20
SECTIONB
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow 10x6=60
This penitential mood kept· her from naming the wedding-day. The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times. But Tess's desire seemed to be for a perpetual betrothal in which everything should remain as it was then.
The meads were changing now; but it was still wa·rm enough in early afternoons before milking to idle there awhile, and the state of dairy-work at this time of year allowed a spare hour for idling. Looking over the damp sod in the direction of the sun, a glistening ripple of gossamer webs was visible to their eyes under the luminary, like the track of moonlight on the sea. Gnats, knowing nothing of their brief glorification, ,vandered across the shimmer of this pathway, irradiated as if they bore fire within them, then passed out of its line, and were quite extinct. In the presence of these things he would remind her that the date was still the question.
Or he would ask her at night, when he accompanied her on some m1ss1on invented by Mrs. Crick_ to give him . the opportunity. This was mostly a journey to the farmhouse on the slopes above the vale, to inquire how the advanced cows were getting on in the straw-barton to which they were relegate d . Fo r i t was a ti m e of the year that bro ught great changes to the world of kine. B atches of th e animals were sent away d ai ly to this lying-in h ospital where they lived on straw ti ll their calve s ,vere born, after which event, and a s s o on as th e calf could wal k moth e r and offs pring were driven back to the d airy. In the interval which el apsed before the calves were s o ld there was, of course li ttl e milking to be done, but as soon as the cal f had been taken away th e milkmaids would h ave to set to w o rk as usual.
What does the author say about cows and calves
On whi ch occasions did he ask Tess about the we dding
Comment on th e changing season as depicted by the author.
What led the man to remi nd the wom an of "the
e Why d i d not Tess n am e the wedding day
Explai n th e meaning of any five of the SIX unde rlined words/terms in the pa ssage keeping in mi nd the context in ,which th ese are used .
6. (a)The artist s at once a member of his society, a rebel a m artyr and the possible saviour, in whose imagination the s pirit of man is continualiy affirmed .Explain how this definition applies to Stephen in A Portra it of the Artist as a Young Man. 40
After his failure in two crucial tests of his life, is Jim in Lord Ji,n redeemed 20
7. In Mrs. Dalloway we stay with . Clariss consciousness for the most p art. Do you agree 35
In Sons and Lo vers what does the nature of h ow Paul Morel rel ates to his women lovers tell us about the meaning of the novel 25
8. Criti cal ly analyse A Passage to India as an Englishman's view of the Indi an s cenario . 40
What do the probl ems faced by Mr. Biswas with th e Tu.Isis, tell us about both ?20
ENGlISH (Literature) Paper II
SECTION A
1. Write short notes on the following 20x3=60
P.rufrock's struggle to find a proper emotion for the occasion he wants to celebrate.
Yeats t preoccupation with old age and death in The Tower.
The Shield of Achilles and the poees handling of dark premonition.
2. Who are the uPoets of the Thirties n and wli.at is their contribution to English literature Explain. 40
Comment on the elements of modern English poetry in Philip Larkin's poems prescribed for your study. 20
3. With examples) highlight the major post-colonial approaches to Indian English literature. 60
4. What is 'Kitchen-sink realism' Comment on this phenomenon in the light of Look Back in Anger. 40
If Waiting for Godot is considered to be a play on the absurdity of exploring life for examine if there is a standpoint for this exploration. meaning, 20
SECTIONB
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow 10x6=60
This penitential mood kept· her from naming the wedding-day. The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times. But Tess's desire seemed to be for a perpetual betrothal in which everything should remain as it was then.
The meads were changing now; but it was still wa·rm enough in early afternoons before milking to idle there awhile, and the state of dairy-work at this time of year allowed a spare hour for idling. Looking over the damp sod in the direction of the sun, a glistening ripple of gossamer webs was visible to their eyes under the luminary, like the track of moonlight on the sea. Gnats, knowing nothing of their brief glorification, ,vandered across the shimmer of this pathway, irradiated as if they bore fire within them, then passed out of its line, and were quite extinct. In the presence of these things he would remind her that the date was still the question.
Or he would ask her at night, when he accompanied her on some m1ss1on invented by Mrs. Crick_ to give him . the opportunity. This was mostly a journey to the farmhouse on the slopes above the vale, to inquire how the advanced cows were getting on in the straw-barton to which they were relegate d . Fo r i t was a ti m e of the year that bro ught great changes to the world of kine. B atches of th e animals were sent away d ai ly to this lying-in h ospital where they lived on straw ti ll their calve s ,vere born, after which event, and a s s o on as th e calf could wal k moth e r and offs pring were driven back to the d airy. In the interval which el apsed before the calves were s o ld there was, of course li ttl e milking to be done, but as soon as the cal f had been taken away th e milkmaids would h ave to set to w o rk as usual.
What does the author say about cows and calves
On whi ch occasions did he ask Tess about the we dding
Comment on th e changing season as depicted by the author.
What led the man to remi nd the wom an of "the
e Why d i d not Tess n am e the wedding day
Explai n th e meaning of any five of the SIX unde rlined words/terms in the pa ssage keeping in mi nd the context in ,which th ese are used .
6. (a)The artist s at once a member of his society, a rebel a m artyr and the possible saviour, in whose imagination the s pirit of man is continualiy affirmed .Explain how this definition applies to Stephen in A Portra it of the Artist as a Young Man. 40
After his failure in two crucial tests of his life, is Jim in Lord Ji,n redeemed 20
7. In Mrs. Dalloway we stay with . Clariss consciousness for the most p art. Do you agree 35
In Sons and Lo vers what does the nature of h ow Paul Morel rel ates to his women lovers tell us about the meaning of the novel 25
8. Criti cal ly analyse A Passage to India as an Englishman's view of the Indi an s cenario . 40
What do the probl ems faced by Mr. Biswas with th e Tu.Isis, tell us about both ?20