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ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code : 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time-4 hours Full marks—100
[N.B.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—(a) Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father and may thee.
(b) Be not afeared, this isle is full of noises
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
(c) He hadde maad ful many a marriage Of yonge wommen, at his owne cost.
(d) Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou showest thee in a child Than the sea-monster.
(e) O it is excellent
To have a giant’s strenght, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
(f) Wommenes counseils been ful oft colde Wommenes counseils broughte us first to wo And made Adam from Paradys to go There as he was ful merye and wel at ese.
(g) Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
O life, of croun, of queen, at once dispatched.
(h) Criseyde gan all his chere espyen
And let so soft it in her herte sinke.
2. (a) Comment on Chaucer’s use of humour and irony in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or
(c) Show in what ways Chaucer’s Troilus and Creseyde transcends the literary convention.
3. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or
(b) To what extent is Hamlet an unconventional revenge play?4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or
(b) Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of intrigues in Othello:5. (a) What is the role of Foal in king Lear? Why does he disappear so mysteriously?
Or
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significant6. (a) Discuss the theme of colonisation as depicted in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Or
(b) Attempt a comparison and contrast between Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest.7. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure as a dark comedy? Give reasons for your answer.
Or
(b) The conclusion of Measure for Measure does not adequately resolve the complex moral issue the play presents. Justify.
ENGLISH—2008
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—(a) How weary stale and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.
(b) And she was cleped Madame Eglentyne Ful well she soong the service divine.
(c) We are such stuff
As dreams are made of and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
(d) Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we off might win By fearing to attempt.
(e) O! beware, my Lord, of jealousy.
It is the green eye’d monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
(f) And now, good people, pay attention to all. See how Dame fortune quickly change side And robs her enemy of hope and pride.
(g) As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods They kill us for their sport.
(h) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pair To tell my story.
2. (a) Discuss Chaucer’s art of characterization with reference to The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Consider The Nun’s Priest’s Tale as a beast fable.
Or,
(c) Comment on the mingling of comic and serious elements in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write on the soliloquies in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Discuss how the play-within- the play contributes to the development of action in Hamlet.4. (a) Do you agree with the view that Iago is more interesting than Othello?
Or,
(b) How far, do you think, is Desdemona responsible for the tragedy in Othello?5. (a) Discuss the theme of Self-knowledge in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Make a comparative study of the three daughters in King Lear.6. (a) ‘Prospero is the dramatic centre of The Tempest’.—Comment.
Or,
(b) Comment on the love story of Ferdinand and Miranda in The Tempest.7. (a) Discuss Shakespeare’s treatment of justice and mercy in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Critically analyze the character of Angelo in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to New and old Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 First Paper (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No.1 and Four others.]1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) She was a worthy woman al hir lyve; Housbondes at Chirche dore she had fyve.
(b) For he that winketh whan he shotde see, Al wilfully, God lat him nevere thee
(c) Better it were a brother died at once
Than that a sister, by redeeming him, Should die for ever
(d) The play’s the thing
Where in I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
(e) Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
(f) Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. This may do something
(g) Be not a feard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not
(h) O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt
Than and resolve itself into a dew!
2. (a) Write a note on Chaucer’s realism in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Discuss in detail Chaucer’s use of mock-heroic technique in The Nun ‘s Priest’s Tale.
Or,
(c) What tragic philosophy of the poet do you find in Troilus and Criseydel
3. (a) The tragic interest of the play Hamlet lies in the character of the hero and his pursuit of revenge. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Critically examine the dramatic significance of the grave diggers’ scene in ‘Hamlet’.
4. (a) ‘Othello’ is a tale of a man who loved excessively but lov’d not wisely’. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Consider Othello as a tragedy of intrigues.
5. (a) Bring out the dramatic significance of the sub-plot in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Lear’s fool has wisdom in disguise.—Elucidate.
6. (a) Write a note on Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme of usurpation in The Tempest.
Or,
(b) Compare and contrast the characters of Ariel and Caliban in The Tempest.
7. (a) Discuss the contradictions in Isabella’s character in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Discuss the theme of authority in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2006
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer arid Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) He hadde maad ful many a marriage of yonge wommen of his owene cost.
(b) He Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou showest thee in a child Than the sea-monster!
(c) O, it is excellent
To have a giants strength: but its tyrannous To use it like a giant
(d) Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fend records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there.
(e) This storie is also trewe, I undertake,
As is the book of Launcelot De Lake
That women holde in ful great reverence.
(f)As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods;
They kill us for their sport.
(g) O, wonder,
How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankinds!
O brave new world
That has such people in it.
(h) Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my
reputation! I have lost the immoral part of myself, and what
remains is bestial.
2. (a) Discuss how realistically Chaucer portrays the contemporary society in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or,
(c) Evaluate the ingredients of romantic in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write, after The Tempest, an essay on the theme of liberty.
Or,
(b) Discuss how adroitly Prospero handles Caliban in The Tempest.
4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or,
(b) Give an estimate of the role of Emilia in Othello.
5. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure to be a dark comedy? Give reasons for your answer.
Or,
(b) Comment on the significance of disguise in Measure for Measure.
6. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Do you agree that there was a method in Hamlet’s madness? If so, why?
7. (a) Construct the image of King Lear as a man more sinned against than sinning.
Or,
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significance.
ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code : 1152 (Modern Poetry)
Time —4 hours Full marks—100
[NB.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and any four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) I am the poet of the body and
I am the poet of the soul
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me.
(b) The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity .
(c) And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm?
(d) Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
(e) Home is the place where, when you have to go there
They have to take you in.
(f) And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s
Forgotten morning when he walked with his mother.
(g) I took the less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(h) Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests
I’ll dig with it.
2. (a) What modern elements do you find in W. B. Yeats’ poems?
Or
(b) Illustrate W. B. Yeats as a love poet.3. (a) Whitman is merely fantastic in his symbolism. Discuss with reference to ‘Song of Myself.’
Or
(b) Comment on the American fervor found in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”4. (a) How does Frost discuss the importance of communication in his poems?
Or
(b) Discuss the dramatic qualities in Frost’s poems.
5. (a) Critically discuss Auden’s use of mythology in the poetry.
Or
(b) Auden preferred to confront modern problems directly in his poetry—Elucidate.
6. (a) How does Dylan Thomas celebrate life over death? Illustrate your answer with reference to some poems.
Or
(b) Comment on Dylan Thomas’ obsession with words.
7. (a) “Much of Heaney’s poetry is fascinating for his words of lyrical beauty and ethical depth”—Discuss.
Or
(b) Write an essay on how Heaney’s concern has been to give a voice to the silent and oppressed.
ENGLISH—2008 (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No 1 and Four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
(b) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
(c) The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made
But a spring mending-time we find them there.
(d) About human suffering they were never wrong
The Old Masters.
(e) Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight.
(f) I missed his funeral Dawn-sniffing reverent,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.
(g) Ceremony’s name for the rich horn
(h) And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
(h) Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
2. (a) Write a critical appreciation of W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.”
Or,
(b) Comment on the use of symbols in the poetry of Yeats.3. (a) How does Walt Whitman ‘song’ and ‘celebrate’ the self in his ‘Song of Myself ?
Or,
(b) Show how Whitman broke with the traditional verse forms and themes in his poetry.
4. (a) Discuss the relationship between men and women in Frost’s poetry.
Or,
(b) “Frost’s poems are local in colour but universal in appeal”— Discuss.
5. (a) Do you think Auden is an anti-romantic poet?
Or,
(b) How does Auden’s social consciousness shape his poetry?6. (a) The poetry of Dylan Thomas is a celebration of the unity of
all life. Do you agree? Give reasons.
Or,
(b) What religious elements do you find in the poetry of Dylan Thomas?7. (a) How does Heaney’s poetry combine pictures of ancient
Ireland with those of modern times?
Or,
(b) What are the special features of Seamus Heaney’s poetry?
ENGLISH—2007
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1152 Second Paper (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
(b) Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy
Whatever I touch or touch-d from,
The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles and all creeds……………….
(c) The ceremony of innocence is drowned,
The best lack of conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(d) And pursue manifold objects, no two alike and everyone good.
The Earth good and the Stars good and their adjuncts all good.
(e) O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
(f) I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
(g) May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
(h) Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
2. (a) What romantic elements do you find in the poems of W. B. Yeats? Illustrate your answer from the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Trace the development of Yeats’ poetic style with reference to the poems you have read.3. (a) Show how Whitman demonstrates the ideals of democracy in ‘Song of Myself.
Or,
(b) Consider Whitman’s treatment of soul, self and body.4. (a) Frost’s poetry reflects modern life despite its pastoral setting.—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Comment on Frost’s handling of psychological tension.5. (a) What picture of contemporary society do you find in Auden’s poetry?
Or,
(b) Comment on Auden’s celebration of nature in his poetry.6. (a) Dylan Thomas engages our most fundamental emotions. Elucidate and illustrate.
Or,
(b) Write a note on Dylan Thomas as a metrical artist.7. (a) Critically examine Seamus Heaney’s concern with serious cultural and political issues, referring to the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Write a critical appreciation of any one poem of Seamus Heaney.
ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code : 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time-4 hours Full marks—100
[N.B.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father and may thee.
(b) Be not afeared, this isle is full of noises
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
He hadde maad ful many a marriage
Of yonge wommen, at his owne cost.
(c) Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou showest thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
(e) O it is excellent
To have a giant’s strenght, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
(f) Wommenes counseils been ful oft colde
Wommenes counseils broughte us first to wo
And made Adam from Paradys to go
There as he was ful merye and wel at ese.
(g) Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
O life, of croun, of queen, at once dispatched.
(h) Criseyde gan all his chere espyen
And let so soft it in her herte sinke.
2. (a) Comment on Chaucer’s use of humour and irony in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or
(c) Show in what ways Chaucer’s Troilus and Creseyde transcends the literary convention.
3. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or
(b) To what extent is Hamlet an unconventional revenge play?4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or
(b) Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of intrigues in Othello:5. (a) What is the role of Foal in king Lear? Why does he disappear so mysteriously?
Or
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significant6. (a) Discuss the theme of colonisation as depicted in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Or
(b) Attempt a comparison and contrast between Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest.7. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure as a dark comedy?
Give reasons for your answer.
Or
(b) The conclusion of Measure for Measure does not adequately resolve the complex moral issue the play presents. Justify.
ENGLISH—2008
[According to the New Syllabus]
Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare) Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—(a) How weary stale and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
(b) And she was cleped Madame Eglentyne Ful well she soong the service divine.
(c) We are such stuff
As dreams are made of and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
(d) Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we off might win By fearing to attempt.
(e) O! beware, my Lord, of jealousy.
It is the green eye’d monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
(f) And now, good people, pay attention to all.
See how Dame fortune quickly change side And robs her enemy of hope and pride.
(g) As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods
They kill us for their sport.
(h) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pair
To tell my story.
2. (a) Discuss Chaucer’s art of characterization with reference to The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Consider The Nun’s Priest’s Tale as a beast fable.
Or,
(c) Comment on the mingling of comic and serious elements in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write on the soliloquies in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Discuss how the play-within- the play contributes to the development of action in Hamlet.4. (a) Do you agree with the view that Iago is more interesting than Othello?
Or,
(b) How far, do you think, is Desdemona responsible for the tragedy in Othello?5. (a) Discuss the theme of Self-knowledge in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Make a comparative study of the three daughters in King Lear.6. (a) ‘Prospero is the dramatic centre of The Tempest’.—Comment.
Or,
(b) Comment on the love story of Ferdinand and Miranda in The Tempest.7. (a) Discuss Shakespeare’s treatment of justice and mercy in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Critically analyze the character of Angelo in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to New and old Syllabus]
Subject Code: 1151 First Paper (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours Full marks—100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No.l and Four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) She was a worthy woman al hir lyve; Housbondes at Chirche dore she had fyve.
(b) For he that winketh whan he shotde see, Al wilfully, God lat him nevere thee
(c) Better it were a brother died at once Than that a sister, by redeeming him, Should die for ever
(d) The play’s the thing
Where in I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
(e) Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
(f) Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. This may do something
(g) Be not a feard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not
(h) O, that this too, too solid flesh would meltThan and resolve itself into a dew!
2. (a) Write a note on Chaucer’s realism in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Discuss in detail Chaucer’s use of mock-heroic technique in The Nun ‘s Priest’s Tale.
Or,
(c) What tragic philosophy of the poet do you find in Troilus and Criseydel
3. (a) The tragic interest of the play Hamlet lies in the character of the hero and his pursuit of revenge. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Critically examine the dramatic significance of the grave diggers’ scene in ‘Hamlet’.
4. (a) ‘Othello’ is a tale of a man who loved excessively but lov’d not wisely’. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Consider Othello as a tragedy of intrigues.
5. (a) Bring out the dramatic significance of the sub-plot in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Lear’s fool has wisdom in disguise.—Elucidate.
6. (a) Write a note on Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme of usurpation in The Tempest.
Or,
(b) Compare and contrast the characters of Ariel and Caliban in The Tempest.
7. (a) Discuss the contradictions in Isabella’s character in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Discuss the theme of authority in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2006
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer arid Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) He hadde maad ful many a marriage of yonge wommen of his owene cost.
(b) He Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou showest thee in a child Than the sea-monster!
(c) O, it is excellent
To have a giants strength: but its tyrannous To use it like a giant
(d) Yea, from the table of my memoryI’ll wipe away all trivial fend records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there.
(e) This storie is also trewe, I undertake,As is the book of Launcelot De Lake
That women holde in ful great reverence.
(f)As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods;
They kill us for their sport.
(g) O, wonder,
How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankinds! O brave new world That has such people in it.
(h) Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my
reputation! I have lost the immoral part of myself, and what
remains is bestial.
2. (a) Discuss how realistically Chaucer portrays the contemporary society in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or,
(c) Evaluate the ingredients of romantic in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write, after The Tempest, an essay on the theme of liberty.
Or,
(b) Discuss how adroitly Prospero handles Caliban in The Tempest.
4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or,
(b) Give an estimate of the role of Emilia in Othello.
5. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure to be a dark comedy? Give reasons for your answer.
Or,
(b) Comment on the significance of disguise in Measure for Measure.
6. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Do you agree that there was a method in Hamlet’s madness? If so, why?
7. (a) Construct the image of King Lear as a man more sinned against than sinning.
Or,
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significance.
ENGLISH—2009 Subject Code : 1152 (Modern Poetry) Time —4 hours Full marks—100
[NB.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and any four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) I am the poet of the body and
I am the poet of the soul
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me.
(b) The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity .
(c) And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm?
(d) Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
(e) Home is the place where, when you have to go there
They have to take you in.
(f) And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s
Forgotten morning when he walked with his mother.
(g) I took the less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(h) Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests
I’ll dig with it.
2. (a) What modern elements do you find in W. B. Yeats’ poems?
Or
(b) Illustrate W. B. Yeats as a love poet.3. (a) Whitman is merely fantastic in his symbolism. Discuss with reference to ‘Song of Myself.’
Or
(b) Comment on the American fervor found in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”4. (a) How does Frost discuss the importance of communication in his poems?
Or
(b) Discuss the dramatic qualities in Frost’s poems.
5. (a) Critically discuss Auden’s use of mythology in the poetry.
Or
(b) Auden preferred to confront modern problems directly in his poetry—Elucidate.6. (a) How does Dylan Thomas celebrate life over death? Illustrate your answer with reference to some poems.
Or
(b) Comment on Dylan Thomas’ obsession with words.
7. (a) “Much of Heaney’s poetry is fascinating for his words of lyrical beauty and ethical depth” —Discuss.
Or
(b) Write an essay on how Heaney’s concern has been to give a voice to the silent and oppressed.
ENGLISH—2008 (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No 1 and Four others.]1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
(b) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
(c) The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made
But a spring mending-time we find them there.
(d) About human suffering they were never wrong
The Old Masters.
(e) Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight.
(f) I missed his funeral Dawn-sniffing reverent,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.
(g) Ceremony’s name for the rich horn
(h) And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
(h) Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
2. (a) Write a critical appreciation of W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.”
Or,
(b) Comment on the use of symbols in the poetry of Yeats.3. (a) How does Walt Whitman ‘song’ and ‘celebrate’ the self in his ‘Song of Myself ?
Or,
(b) Show how Whitman broke with the traditional verse forms and themes in his poetry.
4. (a) Discuss the relationship between men and women in Frost’s poetry.
Or,
(b) “Frost’s poems are local in colour but universal in appeal”— Discuss.
5. (a) Do you think Auden is an anti-romantic poet?
Or,
(b) How does Auden’s social consciousness shape his poetry?6. (a) The poetry of Dylan Thomas is a celebration of the unity of
all life. Do you agree? Give reasons.
Or,
(b) What religious elements do you find in the poetry of Dylan Thomas?7. (a) How does Heaney’s poetry combine pictures of ancient
Ireland with those of modern times?
Or,
(b) What are the special features of Seamus Heaney’s poetry?
ENGLISH—2007
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1152 Second Paper (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
(b) Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy
Whatever I touch or touch-d from,
The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles and all creeds..
(c) The ceremony of innocence is drowned,
The best lack of conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(d) And pursue manifold objects, no two alike and everyone good.
The Earth good and the Stars good and their adjuncts all good.
(e) O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
(f) I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
(g) May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
(h) Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
2. (a) What romantic elements do you find in the poems of W. B. Yeats? Illustrate your answer from the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Trace the development of Yeats’ poetic style with reference to the poems you have read.3. (a) Show how Whitman demonstrates the ideals of democracy in ‘Song of Myself.
Or,
(b) Consider Whitman’s treatment of soul, self and body.4. (a) Frost’s poetry reflects modern life despite its pastoral setting.—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Comment on Frost’s handling of psychological tension.5. (a) What picture of contemporary society do you find in Auden’s poetry?
Or,
(b) Comment on Auden’s celebration of nature in his poetry.6. (a) Dylan Thomas engages our most fundamental emotions. Elucidate and illustrate.
Or,
(b) Write a note on Dylan Thomas as a metrical artist.7. (a) Critically examine Seamus Heaney’s concern with serious cultural and political issues, referring to the poems you have read.
Or,
(c) Write a critical appreciation of any one poem of Seamus Heaney.
ENGLISH—2006
Second Paper (Modern Poetry)
[According to the New Syllabus] Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) I will arise and go now, for always night and day,
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore: While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep hearts core.
(b) What shall I do with this absurdity—
0 heart, O troubled heart—this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog’s tail?
(c) I am the Poet of the Body and I am the Poet of the Soul.
The pleasures of heaven are with me and pains of Hell are with me.
(d) The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appeared.
(e) I shall be telling this with a sigh
Some ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(f) The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.
(g) The words of death are dryer than his stiff,
My wordy wounds are printed with your hair.
I would be tickled by the rub that is:
Man be my metaphor.
(h) Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rest. I’ll dig with it.
2. (a) Analyze Yeats’ symbolism with reference to the poem you have studied.
Or,
(b) Write an essay on Yeats’
handling of history and myth with particular reference to “Sailing to
Byzantium” and “The Second Coming”.3. (a) Show how Whitman broke with the traditional verse forms and themes in his poetry.
Or,
(b) Comment on Whitman’s mysticism.4. (a) Discuss Frost’s treatment of nature in the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Discuss how Frost uses the dramatic narrative form in his poetry.5. (a) ‘Auden is an anti-romantic modern Poet’—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Discuss how Auden combined political consciousness with personal concern in his poetry. Illustrate from the poems you have read.6. (a) Comment on the view that the poems of Dylan Thomas are the work of a religious poet.
Or,
(b) Write a note on the poetic imagery of Dylan Thomas.7. (a) The Irish ‘troubles’ are an important theme in many of Seamus Heaney’s poems—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Evaluate Heaney’s poetic vision and art.ENGLISH—2009 Subject Code : 1153 (Modern Drama)
Time-4 hours Full marks—100
N.B.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and four others.]
Locate and explain any four of the following :—(a) If it was a hundred horses, or a thousand horses you had itself, what is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one sun only ?
(b) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire . The other is to get it.
(c) I left the pillar over his little face. Then he killed himself. He stopped breath in.
(d) But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late.
I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, But I can’t cry. I don’t understand it.
(f) I was wrong, I was wrong! I don’t want to be neutral! I don’t want to be a saint. I want to be a lost cause. I want to be corrupt and futile.
(g) He had good dream. It’s the only dream you can have-to come out number one.
(h) Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad husband.
(a) ‘The very setting of the play Riders to the Sea’ has contributed much to make it both local and universal at the same time. Explain the statement.
Or
(b) Do you find any tragic dignity in the character of Maurya?
(a) Consider Look Back in Anger as a revolt against all that is conventional.
Or
(b) Comment on Jimmy Porter’s relationship with Alison and Helena.
(a) To what extent does Miller prove his tragic vision to be distinctively modern? Discuss in reference to Death of a Salesman .
Or
(b) Attempt a note on the dramatic technique employed by Miller in Death of a Salesman.
(a) What are the desires in O’ Neill’s Desire Under the Elms? How do they attain tragic stature?
Or
(b) Do you think that the conflict between puritanical ideals and natural forces results in Cabot’s tragedy?
(a) Comment on Shaw’s blend of comic and melodramatic elements in Man and Superman.
Or
(b) Discuss Octavius as an anti-hero.
(a) Show how Waiting for Godot present a world which in Extentialist sense, is absurd .
Or
(d) Discuss the thematic and structural unity in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
ENGLISH—2008 (Modern Drama)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No 1
and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) Isn’t it a hard and cruel man
Won’t hear a word from an old Woman and she holding him from the sea?
(b) You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.
(c) Maw’s gone to her grave. She kin sleep now.
(d) They tremble when we are in danger and weep when we die; but the tears are not for us, but for a father wasted, a son’s breeding thrown away.
(e) It’s the life of a young man to be going on the sea and who would listen to an old woman with one thing and she saying it over?
(f) Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one and that one is his cowardice.
(g) The Dead Sea was plae blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That’s where we’ll go, I used to say, that’s where we’ll go for our honeymoon..
(h) I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry—angry and
helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about
love…. betrayal….. and death when I was ten years old than
you will probably ever know all your life.
2. (a) In what ways is Riders to the Sea comparable to Greek tragedy?
Or,
(b) What picture of the life of the islanders do you get in Riders to the Sea?3. (a) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Bear and squirrel game in Look Back in Anger.
Or,
(b) ‘Alison, in Look Back in Anger, has degraded herself through her humiliating reconciliation with her husband, Jimmy’ Explain the statement.4. (a) What picture of American society and family life do you get in Death of a Salesman?
Or,
(b) Critically examine the father-son relationship as dramatized by Miller in Death of a Salesman.5. (a) How does O’Neill handle the theme of sin and retribution in Desire under the Elms?
Or,
(b) Do you think Octavius is an anti-hero? Why?6. (a) Elucidate the Shavian idea of the Life Force in Man and Superman.
Or,
(b) How does the Hell-scene in Man and Superman strike the keynote of a comedy of purpose?7. (a) Who is Godot in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? What picture of him have you formed from your reading the play?
Or,
(b) Discuss the treatment of time in Waiting for Godot.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to the New Syllabuses] Subject Code: 1153
Third Paper (Modern Drama)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.—All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No.1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following :—(a) I left the pillar over his little face.
Then he killed himself. He stopped breath in.
(b) ” I’ll prove t ‘ye! I’ll prove I love ye better’n ……………….
Better’n everythin’ else in the world!”
(c) I was fired, and I’m looking for a little a good news to tell your
mother because the woman has waited and the woman has suffered. The gist of it is that I haven’t got a story left in my head.
(d) “No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.”
(e) “One isn’t master of one’s moods. All day I’ve felt in great
form. I didn’t get up in the night, not once!”
(f) “I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that
kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blazgoing on all around.”
(g) “Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a
bad husband.”
(h) Just at present the sense of honour is in abeyance. To say that he
is excited is nothing. All his moods are phases of excitement.
2. (a) How did John Osborne earn the reputation of “an anger youth
man”?
Or
(b) Consider Look Back in Anger as a revolt against all that are conventional.3. (a) In what ways Lucky and Pozzo contribute to the thematic structure of the play Waiting for Godot?
Or,
(b) Analyse Waiting for Godot as an Absurd Drama referring to the tradition of Theatre of the Absurd.4. (a) What makes Loman a tragic hero?.
Or,
(b)- Make an essay on dramatic technique employed by Arthur Miller in Death of a Salesman.5. (a) What are the desires in O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms?
How do they attain tragic stature?
Or,
(b) Analyse the relationship between the father and his sons in O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms.6. (a) Examine how Shaw has blended the comic and melodramatic elements in his Man and Superman.
Or,
(b) Show how the three main female characters in Man and Superman differ from one another.7. (a) Evaluate Maurya as a tragic character.
Or,
(b) Comment on the role of Nature as is shown in Synge’s Riders to the Sea.
ENGLISH—2006
Third Paper (Modern Drama)[According to the New Syllabus]
Time- 4 hours Full marks-100
[KB. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and
Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:
(a) That is not happiness, but the price for which the strong sell their happiness.
(b) Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I’m in the house. It gets me nervous. I can’t tell you. Please.
(c) In the big world the old people do leaving things after them for their sons and children, but in this place it is the young men do be leaving things behind for them that do be old.
(d) No! No! Not him! But that’s what I ought t’ done, hain’t it? I oughter killed him instead! Why didn’t ye tell me?
(e) At least, I still believe in right and wrong! Not even the months in this mad house have stopped me doing that. Even though everything I have done is wrong, at least I have known it was wrong.
(f) We wait. We are bored. No don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it.
(g) They tremble when we are in danger, and weep when we die; but the tears are not for us, but for a father wasted, a son’s breeding thrown away.
(h) In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker.
2. (a) What picture of life of the Aran-islanders do you get in Riders to the Sea.
Or,
(b) “Synge’s Riders to the Sea is at once local and universal” — Discuss.3. (a) What is Shaw’s conception of Life Force in Man and Superman?
Or,
(b) Sketch the character of Octavius Robinson as an anti-hero.4. (a) Write a note on the theme of passion in Desire under the Elms?
Or,
(b) Do you think that O’Neill Desire under The Elms the Elm is an attack on Puritanism? Give reasons for your answer.5. (a) Who is Godot in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? What picture of him have you formed from your reading the play?
Or,
(b) Discuss the thematic and structural unity of Waiting for Godot?6. (a) Is Miller’s tragic vision distinctively modern? Explain with reference to Death of a Salesman.
Or,
(b) Critically examine the father-son relationship a dramatized by Miller in Death of a Salesman.7. (a) Do you agree that Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is a record of the mood and temper of post-war England?
Or,
(b) Comment on the dramatic significance of the bear-and squirrel-game in Look Back in Anger.
ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code :1154 (A)/1154 (B)/1154 (C)
Time — 4 hours Full marks—100 Subject Code : 1154 (A) (Modern Novel & Prose)
[N.B.—All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and four others.]
1. (a) Write a note on Hemingway’s narrative technique in A Farewell to Arms.
Or
(b) Comment on Hemingway’s use of symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.2. (a) “William Golding is not discussing the fate of a group of boys on an island but the fate of mankind” Explain.
Or
(b) How do innocence and experience connect thematically with meaning in Lord of the Flies?3. (a) Examine critically Hawthorne’s puritanic attitude in The Scarlet Letter.
Or
(b) Bring out the dramatic significance of the scaffold scenes in The Scarlet Letter.4. (a) What is a satire ? Consider Brave New World as a satire.
Or
(b) Whom do the people worship in Brave New World?5. (a) Critically analyze the character of Antoine Roquentin in Nausea.
Or
(b) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relationship with the phenomena around him—Discuss.6. (a) What are the conditions that Virginia Wolf set for the promotion of creative genius? Do you agree with her view?
Or
(b) How does Virginia Wolf show the position of women in the 16thcentury?
(a) Discuss the distinctive features of Leavis’ prose style.
Or
(b) Do you think F.R. Leavis is correct when he says the study of literature is an intimate study of the complexities, potentialities and essential conditions of human nature?
Write short notes on any four of the following :—
(a) Hester Prynne;
(b) Dystopia;
(c) Coral Island;
(d) Catherine Barkley;
(e) Stream of Consciousness;
(f) Judith Shakespeare;
(g) The Couch shell;
(h) Marquis de Robellon.
ENGLISH—2008
Fourth Paper Subject Code: 1154 (A) (Modern Novel and Prose)
Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and Four others]
1.(a) Comment on Henry’s disillusionment with war in A Farewell to Arms.Or,
(b) Write a note on Hemming way’s art of characterisation in A Farewell to Arms.
2. (a) ‘Lord of the Flies is a serious explanation of fundamental moral issues—freedom and oppression’. Discuss.
Or,
(b) What is the significance of the Coral Island in Lord of the Flies?
3.(a) In what sense is The Scarlet Letter ‘a tale of human frailly and sorrow’?
Or,
(b) Write a note on the theme of isolation in The Scarlet Letter.
4. (a) What is a science fiction? Justify the novel Brave New World as a science fiction.
Or,
(b) Comment on the female characters in Brave New World.
5. (a) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relation with the phenomena around. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Sartre’s Nausea combines phenomenology and existentialism. Elucidate.
6. (a) What, according to Virginia Woolf, are the barriers that women faced to become a writer?
Or,
(b) Why does Virginia Woolf prefer Shakespeare to Milton in her essay Shakespeare’s Sister?
7.(a) Evaluate F.R. Leavis as a literary critic.
Or,
(b) Justify the title of the essay Literature and Society.
8. Write short notes on any four of the following:—
(a) The Bloomsbury Group;
(b) Existentialism;
(c) Symbolism;
(d) New criticism;
(e) Soma;
(f) Rinaldi;
(g) Roger Chillingworth;
(h) Piggy’s Glasses.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1154(A)/1154(B)/1154(C) Subject Code: 1154(A) Fourth Paper (Modern Novel & Prose) Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N. B.—All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and four others.]
1. (a) What views of war and love does Hemingway convey through A Farewell to Arms?
Or,
(b) What literary craftsmanship do you notice in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms? Illustrate your answer with specific reference.2. (a) Explain the allegorical significance of William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies,
Or,
(b) Golding has exposed the instinctive cruelty of man in his novel Lord of the Flies. Elucidate and illustrate.3. (a) What uses of symbolism has Hawthorne made in The Scarlet Letter?
Or,
(b) Comment on Hawthorne’s art of characterization.4. (a) What is a Satire? Consider Brave New World as a satire.
Or,
(b) What is the symbolic significance of John, the Savage?5. (a) Critically analyze the character of Autaine Roquentin in Nausea.
Or,
(b) What do you understand by ‘bad faith’? Focus on the instances of ‘bad faith’ in Nausea.6. (a) How does Virginia Woolf show the position of women in the 16th century?
Or,
(b) Why did Judith commit suicide? What does her suicide signify?7. (a) Discuss the distinctive features of Leavis’ prose style.
Or,
(b) How does Leavis argue in favour of his view that literature should be based on the whole social culture?8. Write short notes on any four of the following :—
(a) Miss Helen Ferguson;
(b) Science Fiction;
(c) Romanticism;
(d) Feminist Criticism;
(e) Catherine as a Hemingway Heroine;
(f) Moral Allegory;
(g) Pragmatism;
(h) Stream of Consciousness.
ENGLISH—2006
Fourth Paper Subject Code: 1154 (A) Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
Subject Code: 1154(A) (Modern Novel and Prose)
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No.8 and Four others]
1. (a) Why is Henry disillusioned with war in A Farewell to Arms?
Or,
(b) Comment on Hemingway use of symbols in A Farewell to Arms.2. (a) How do innocence and experience connect thematically with meaning in Lord of the Flies?
Or
(b) What is the significance of the Coral Island in Lord of the Flies.(a) Comment on the theme of crime and punishment as presented Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Or,
(b) Would you consider Hester Prynne a tragic character? Give reasons.
(a) Discuss Sartre’s analysis of consciousness of self in Nausea
Or,
(b) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relationship with the phenomena around him. Discuss.
(a) Whom do the people worship in Brave New World and why?
Or
(b) Justify the novel Brave New World as a science fiction.
(a) What is the significance of the title Shakespeare’s Sister?
Or,
(b) What, according to Virginia Woolf, are the barriers that women faced to become a writer?
(a) What does F. R. Leavis say about Romantic Movement and Romantic Age in his essay Literature and Society?
Or,
(b) Justify the title of the essay Literature and Society?
Write short notes on any four of the following:
(a) Judith Shakespeare;
(b) Rinaldi;
(c) Pearl;
(d) Feminism;
(e) Phenomenology;
(f) New Criticism
(g) Simon;
(h) The Diary in Nausea.
ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code : 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time-4 hours Full marks—100
[N.B.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father and may thee.
(b) Be not afeared, this isle is full of noises
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
He hadde maad ful many a marriage
Of yonge wommen, at his owne cost.
(c) Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou showest thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
(e) O it is excellent
To have a giant’s strenght, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
(f) Wommenes counseils been ful oft colde
Wommenes counseils broughte us first to wo
And made Adam from Paradys to go
There as he was ful merye and wel at ese.
(g) Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
O life, of croun, of queen, at once dispatched.
(h) Criseyde gan all his chere espyen
And let so soft it in her herte sinke.
And let so soft it in her herte sinke.
2. (a) Comment on Chaucer’s use of humour and irony in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or
(c) Show in what ways Chaucer’s Troilus and Creseyde transcends the literary convention.
3. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or
(b) To what extent is Hamlet an unconventional revenge play?
4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or
(b) Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of intrigues in Othello:
5. (a) What is the role of Foal in king Lear? Why does he disappear so mysteriously?
Or
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significant
6. (a) Discuss the theme of colonisation as depicted in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Or
(b) Attempt a comparison and contrast between Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest.
7. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure as a dark comedy?
Give reasons for your answer.
Or
(b) The conclusion of Measure for Measure does not adequately resolve the complex moral issue the play presents. Justify.
ENGLISH—2008
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer and Shakespeare) Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) How weary stale and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
(b) And she was cleped Madame Eglentyne Ful well she soong the service divine.
(c) We are such stuff
As dreams are made of and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
(d) Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we off might win By fearing to attempt.
(e) O! beware, my Lord, of jealousy.
It is the green eye’d monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
(f) And now, good people, pay attention to all.
See how Dame fortune quickly change side And robs her enemy of hope and pride.
(g) As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods
They kill us for their sport.
(h) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pair
To tell my story.
2. (a) Discuss Chaucer’s art of characterization with reference to The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Consider The Nun’s Priest’s Tale as a beast fable.
Or,
(c) Comment on the mingling of comic and serious elements in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write on the soliloquies in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Discuss how the play-within- the play contributes to the development of action in Hamlet.
4. (a) Do you agree with the view that Iago is more interesting than Othello?
Or,
(b) How far, do you think, is Desdemona responsible for the tragedy in Othello?
5. (a) Discuss the theme of Self-knowledge in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Make a comparative study of the three daughters in King Lear.
6. (a) ‘Prospero is the dramatic centre of The Tempest‘.—Comment.
Or,
(b) Comment on the love story of Ferdinand and Miranda in The Tempest.
7. (a) Discuss Shakespeare’s treatment of justice and mercy in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Critically analyze the character of Angelo in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to New and old Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 First Paper (Chaucer and Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No.l and Four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) She was a worthy woman al hir lyve; Housbondes at Chirche dore she had fyve.
(b) For he that winketh whan he shotde see, Al wilfully, God lat him nevere thee
(c) Better it were a brother died at once Than that a sister, by redeeming him, Should die for ever
(d) The play’s the thing
Where in I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
(e) Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
(f) Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. This may do something
(g) Be not a feard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not
(h) O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt
Than and resolve itself into a dew!
Than and resolve itself into a dew!
2. (a) Write a note on Chaucer’s realism in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) Discuss in detail Chaucer’s use of mock-heroic technique in The Nun ‘s Priest’s Tale.
Or,
(c) What tragic philosophy of the poet do you find in Troilus and Criseydel
3. (a) The tragic interest of the play Hamlet lies in the character of the hero and his pursuit of revenge. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Critically examine the dramatic significance of the grave diggers’ scene in ‘Hamlet’.
4. (a) ‘Othello’ is a tale of a man who loved excessively but lov’d not wisely’. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Consider Othello as a tragedy of intrigues.
5. (a) Bring out the dramatic significance of the sub-plot in King Lear.
Or,
(b) Lear’s fool has wisdom in disguise.—Elucidate.
6. (a) Write a note on Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme of usurpation in The Tempest.
Or,
(b) Compare and contrast the characters of Ariel and Caliban in The Tempest.
7. (a) Discuss the contradictions in Isabella’s character in Measure for Measure.
Or,
(b) Discuss the theme of authority in Measure for Measure.
ENGLISH—2006
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1151 (Chaucer arid Shakespeare)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) He hadde maad ful many a marriage of yonge wommen of his owene cost.
(b) He Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou showest thee in a child Than the sea-monster!
(c) O, it is excellent
To have a giants strength: but its tyrannous To use it like a giant
(d) Yea, from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fend records,
I’ll wipe away all trivial fend records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there.
(e) This storie is also trewe, I undertake,
As is the book of Launcelot De Lake
That women holde in ful great reverence.
As is the book of Launcelot De Lake
That women holde in ful great reverence.
(f)As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods;
They kill us for their sport.
(g) O, wonder,
How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankindjs! O brave new world That has such people in it.
(h) Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my
reputation! I have lost the immoral part of myself, and what
remains is bestial.
reputation! I have lost the immoral part of myself, and what
remains is bestial.
2. (a) Discuss how realistically Chaucer portrays the contemporary society in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Or,
(b) How does Chaucer give human attributes to the animals in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Or,
(c) Evaluate the ingredients of romantic in Troilus and Criseyde.
3. (a) Write, after The Tempest, an essay on the theme of liberty.
Or,
(b) Discuss how adroitly Prospero handles Caliban in The Tempest.
4. (a) Do you think that Othello was a victim of credulity and jealousy?
Or,
(b) Give an estimate of the role of Emilia in Othello.
5. (a) Will you consider Measure for Measure to be a dark comedy? Give reasons for your answer.
Or,
(b) Comment on the significance of disguise in Measure for Measure.
6. (a) Show how the ghost acts as a powerful driving force in Hamlet.
Or,
(b) Do you agree that there was a method in Hamlet’s madness? If so, why?
7. (a) Construct the image of King Lear as a man more sinned against than sinning.
Or,
(b) Give a description of the storm scene in King Lear with a critical note on its significance.
ENGLISH—2009 Subject Code : 1152 (Modern Poetry) Time —4 hours Full marks—100
[KB.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and any four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) I am the poet of the body and
I am the poet of the soul
I am the poet of the soul
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me.
(b) The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity .
(c) And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm?
(d) Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
(e) Home is the place where, when you have to go there
They have to take you in.
(f) And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s
Forgotten morning when he walked with his mother.
(g) I took the less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(h) Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests
The squat pen rests
I’ll dig with it.
2. (a) What modern elements do you find in W. B. Yeats’ poems?
Or
(b) Illustrate W. B. Yeats as a love poet.
3. (a) Whitman is merely fantastic in his symbolism. Discuss with reference to ‘Song of Myself.’
Or
(b) Comment on the American fervor found in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”
4. (a) How does Frost discuss the importance of communication in his poems?
Or
(b) Discuss the dramatic qualities in Frost’s poems.
5. (a) Critically discuss Auden’s use of mythology in the poetry.
Or
(b) Auden preferred to confront modern problems directly in his poetry—Elucidate.
6. (a) How does Dylan Thomas celebrate life over death? Illustrate your answer with reference to some poems.
Or
(b) Comment on Dylan Thomas’ obsession with words.
7. (a) “Much of Heaney’s poetry is fascinating for his words of lyrical beauty and ethical depth” —Discuss.
Or
(b) Write an essay on how Heaney’s concern has been to give a voice to the silent and oppressed.
ENGLISH—2008 (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No 1 and Four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
(b) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
(c) The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made
But a spring mending-time we find them there.
(d) About human suffering they were never wrong
The Old Masters.
(e) Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight.
(f) I missed his funeral Dawn-sniffing reverent,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.
(g) Ceremony’s name for the rich horn
(h) And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
(h) Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
2. (a) Write a critical appreciation of W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.”
Or,
(b) Comment on the use of symbols in the poetry of Yeats.
3. (a) How does Walt Whitman ‘song’ and ‘celebrate’ the self in his ‘Song of Myself ?
Or,
(b) Show how Whitman broke with the traditional verse forms and themes in his poetry.
4. (a) Discuss the relationship between men and women in Frost’s poetry.
Or,
(b) “Frost’s poems are local in colour but universal in appeal”— Discuss.
5. (a) Do you think Auden is an anti-romantic poet?
Or,
(b) How does Auden’s social consciousness shape his poetry?
6. (a) The poetry of Dylan Thomas is a celebration of the unity of
all life. Do you agree? Give reasons.
Or,
(b) What religious elements do you find in the poetry of Dylan Thomas?
7. (a) How does Heaney’s poetry combine pictures of ancient
Ireland with those of modern times?
Or,
(b) What are the special features of Seamus Heaney’s poetry?
ENGLISH—2007
[According to the New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1152 Second Paper (Modern Poetry)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others.]
1. Explain with reference to the context (any four):—
(a) A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
(b) Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy
Whatever I touch or touch-d from,
Whatever I touch or touch-d from,
The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles and all creeds..
This head more than churches, bibles and all creeds..
(c) The ceremony of innocence is drowned,
The best lack of conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
(d) And pursue manifold objects, no two alike and everyone good.
The Earth good and the Stars good and their adjuncts all good.
(e) O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
(f) I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
(g) May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
(h) Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
2. (a) What romantic elements do you find in the poems of W. B. Yeats? Illustrate your answer from the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Trace the development of Yeats’ poetic style with reference to the poems you have read.
3. (a) Show how Whitman demonstrates the ideals of democracy in ‘Song of Myself.
Or,
(b) Consider Whitman’s treatment of soul, self and body.
4. (a) Frost’s poetry reflects modern life despite its pastoral setting.—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Comment on Frost’s handling of psychological tension.
5. (a) What picture of contemporary society do you find in Auden’s poetry?
Or,
(b) Comment on Auden’s celebration of nature in his poetry.
6. (a) Dylan Thomas engages our most fundamental emotions. Elucidate and illustrate.
Or,
(b) Write a note on Dylan Thomas as a metrical artist.
7. (a) Critically examine Seamus Heaney’s concern with serious cultural and political issues, referring to the poems you have read.
Or,
(c) Write a critical appreciation of any one poem of Seamus Heaney.
ENGLISH—2006
Second Paper (Modern Poetry)
[According to the New Syllabus] Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
[N.B.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and Four others.]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) I will arise and go now, for always night and day,
I
hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore: While I stand on
the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep hearts
core.
(b) What shall I do with this absurdity—
0 heart, O troubled heart—this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog’s tail?
(c) I am the Poet of the Body and I am the Poet of the Soul.
The pleasures of heaven are with me and pains of Hell are with me.
(d) The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appeared.
(e) I shall be telling this with a sigh
Some ages and ages hence;
Some ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(f) The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.
(g) The words of death are dryer than his stiff,
My wordy wounds are printed with your hair.
I would be tickled by the rub that is:
My wordy wounds are printed with your hair.
I would be tickled by the rub that is:
Man be my metaphor.
(h) Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rest. I’ll dig with it.
2. (a) Analyze Yeats’ symbolism with reference to the poem you have studied.
Or,
(b) Write
an essay on Yeats’ handling of history and myth with particular
reference to “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming”.
3. (a) Show how Whitman broke with the traditional verse forms and themes in his poetry.
Or,
(b) Comment on Whitman’s mysticism.
4. (a) Discuss Frost’s treatment of nature in the poems you have read.
Or,
(b) Discuss how Frost uses the dramatic narrative form in his poetry.
5. (a) ‘Auden is an anti-romantic modern Poet’—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Discuss how Auden combined political consciousness with personal concern in his poetry. Illustrate from the poems you have read.
6. (a) Comment on the view that the poems of Dylan Thomas are the work of a religious poet.
Or,
(b) Write a note on the poetic imagery of Dylan Thomas.
7. (a) The Irish ‘troubles’ are an important theme in many of Seamus Heaney’s poems—Discuss.
Or,
(b) Evaluate Heaney’s poetic vision and art.
ENGLISH—2009 Subject Code : 1153 (Modern Drama)
Time-4 hours Full marks—100
N.B.— All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and four others.]
Locate and explain any four of the following :—
(a) If
it was a hundred horses, or a thousand horses you had itself, what is
the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one sun only
?
(b) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire . The other is to get it.
(c) I left the pillar over his little face. Then he killed himself. He stopped breath in.
(d) But
at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we
like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late.
I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, But I can’t cry. I don’t understand it.
(f)
I was wrong, I was wrong! I don’t want to be neutral! I don’t want to
be a saint. I want to be a lost cause. I want to be corrupt and futile.
(g) He had good dream. It’s the only dream you can have-to come out number one.
(h) Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad husband.
(a)
‘The very setting of the play Riders to the Sea’ has contributed much
to make it both local and universal at the same time. Explain the
statement.
Or
(b) Do you find any tragic dignity in the character of Maurya?
(a) Consider Look Back in Anger as a revolt against all that is conventional.
Or
(b) Comment on Jimmy Porter’s relationship with Alison and Helena.
(a) To what extent does Miller prove his tragic vision to be distinctively modern? Discuss in reference to Death of a Salesman .
Or
(b) Attempt a note on the dramatic technique employed by Miller in Death of a Salesman.
(a) What are the desires in O’ Neill’s Desire Under the Elms? How do they attain tragic stature?
Or
(b) Do you think that the conflict between puritanical ideals and natural forces results in Cabot’s tragedy?
(a) Comment on Shaw’s blend of comic and melodramatic elements in Man and Superman.
Or
(b) Discuss Octavius as an anti-hero.
(a) Show how Waiting for Godot present a world which in Extentialist sense, is absurd .
Or
(d) Discuss the thematic and structural unity in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
ENGLISH—2008 (Modern Drama)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.— All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No 1
and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:—
(a) Isn’t it a hard and cruel man
Won’t hear a word from an old Woman and she holding him from the sea?
(b) You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.
(c) Maw’s gone to her grave. She kin sleep now.
(d) They
tremble when we are in danger and weep when we die; but the tears are
not for us, but for a father wasted, a son’s breeding thrown away.
(e) It’s the life of a young man to be going on the sea and who would listen to an old woman with one thing and she saying it over?
(f) Man
gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his
crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one and that one is his
cowardice.
(g) The
Dead Sea was plae blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That’s
where we’ll go, I used to say, that’s where we’ll go for our honeymoon..
(h) I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry—angry and
helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about
helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about
love…. betrayal….. and death when I was ten years old than
you will probably ever know all your life.
2. (a) In what ways is Riders to the Sea comparable to Greek tragedy?
Or,
(b) What picture of the life of the islanders do you get in Riders to the Sea?
3. (a) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Bear and squirrel game in Look Back in Anger.
Or,
(b) ‘Alison, in Look Back in Anger, has degraded herself through her humiliating reconciliation with her husband, Jimmy’ Explain the statement.
4. (a) What picture of American society and family life do you get in Death of a Salesman?
Or,
(b) Critically examine the father-son relationship as dramatized by Miller in Death of a Salesman.
5. (a) How does O’Neill handle the theme of sin and retribution in Desire under the Elms?
Or,
(b) Do you think Octavius is an anti-hero? Why?
6. (a) Elucidate the Shavian idea of the Life Force in Man and Superman.
Or,
(b) How does the Hell-scene in Man and Superman strike the keynote of a comedy of purpose?
7. (a) Who is Godot in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? What picture of him have you formed from your reading the play?
Or,
(b) Discuss the treatment of time in Waiting for Godot.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to the New Syllabuses] Subject Code: 1153
Third Paper (Modern Drama)
Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[NB.—All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No.1 and Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following :—
(a) I left the pillar over his little face.
Then he killed himself. He stopped breath in.
(b) ” I’ll prove t ‘ye! I’ll prove I love ye better’n ……………….
Better’n everythin’ else in the world!”
(c) I was fired, and I’m looking for a little a good news to tell your
mother because the woman has waited and the woman has suffered. The gist of it is that I haven’t got a story left in my head.
(d) “No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.”
(e) “One isn’t master of one’s moods. All day I’ve felt in great
form. I didn’t get up in the night, not once!”
(f)“I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that
kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blazgoing on all around.”
(g)“Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a
bad husband.”
bad husband.”
(h) Just at present the sense of honour is in abeyance. To say that he
is excited is nothing. All his moods are phases of excitement.
2. (a) How did John Osborne earn the reputation of “an anger youth
man”?
Or
(b) Consider Look Back in Anger as a revolt against all that are conventional.
3. (a) In what ways Lucky and Pozzo contribute to the thematic structure of the play Waiting for Godot?
Or,
(b) Analyse Waiting for Godot as an Absurd Drama referring to the tradition of Theatre of the Absurd.
4. (a) What makes Loman a tragic hero?.
Or,
(b)- Make an essay on dramatic technique employed by Arthur Miller in Death of a Salesman.
5. (a) What are the desires in O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms?
How do they attain tragic stature?
Or,
(b) Analyse the relationship between the father and his sons in O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms.
6. (a) Examine how Shaw has blended the comic and melodramatic elements in his Man and Superman.
Or,
(b) Show how the three main female characters in Man and Superman differ from one another.
7. (a) Evaluate Maurya as a tragic character.
Or,
(b) Comment on the role of Nature as is shown in Synge’s Riders to the Sea.
ENGLISH—2006
Third Paper (Modern Drama)[According to the New Syllabus]
Time- 4 hours Full marks-100
[KB. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 1 and
Four others]
1. Locate and explain any four of the following:
(a)That is not happiness, but the price for which the strong sell their happiness.
(b)Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I’m in the house. It gets me nervous. I can’t tell you. Please.
(c) In
the big world the old people do leaving things after them for their
sons and children, but in this place it is the young men do be leaving
things behind for them that do be old.
(d)No! No! Not him! But that’s what I ought t’ done, hain’t it? I oughter killed him instead! Why didn’t ye tell me?
(e) At
least, I still believe in right and wrong! Not even the months in this
mad house have stopped me doing that. Even though everything I have done
is wrong, at least I have known it was wrong.
(f) We wait. We are bored. No don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it.
(g)They
tremble when we are in danger, and weep when we die; but the tears are
not for us, but for a father wasted, a son’s breeding thrown away.
(h) In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker.
2. (a) What picture of life of the Aran-islanders do you get in Riders to the Sea.
Or,
(b) “Synge’s Riders to the Sea is at once local and universal” — Discuss.
3. (a) What is Shaw’s conception of Life Force in Man and Superman?
Or,
(b) Sketch the character of Octavius Robinson as an anti-hero.
4. (a) Write a note on the theme of passion in Desire under the Elms?
Or,
(b) Do you think that O’Neill Desire under The Elms the Elm is an attack on Puritanism? Give reasons for your answer.
5. (a) Who is Godot in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? What picture of him have you formed from your reading the play?
Or,
(b) Discuss the thematic and structural unity of Waiting for Godot?
6. (a) Is Miller’s tragic vision distinctively modern? Explain with reference to Death of a Salesman.
Or,
(b) Critically examine the father-son relationship a dramatized by Miller in Death of a Salesman.
7. (a) Do you agree that Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is a record of the mood and temper of post-war England?
Or,
(b) Comment on the dramatic significance of the bear-and squirrel-game in Look Back in Anger.
ENGLISH—2009
Subject Code :1154 (A)/1154 (B)/1154 (C)
Time — 4 hours Full marks—100 Subject Code : 1154 (A) (Modern Novel & Prose)
[N.B.—All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and four others.]
1. (a) Write a note on Hemingway’s narrative technique in A Farewell to Arms.
Or
(b) Comment on Hemingway’s use of symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.
2. (a) “William Golding is not discussing the fate of a group of boys on an island but the fate of mankind” Explain.
Or
(b) How do innocence and experience connect thematically with meaning in Lord of the Flies?
3. (a) Examine critically Hawthorne’s puritanic attitude in The Scarlet Letter.
Or
(b) Bring out the dramatic significance of the scaffold scenes in The Scarlet Letter.
4. (a) What is a satire ? Consider Brave New World as a satire.
Or
(b) Whom do the people worship in Brave New World?
5. (a) Critically analyze the character of Antoine Roquentin in Nausea.
Or
(b) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relationship with the phenomena around him—Discuss.
6. (a) What are the conditions that Virginia Wolf set for the promotion of creative genius? Do you agree with her view?
Or
(b) How does Virginia Wolf show the position of women in the 16thcentury?
(a) Discuss the distinctive features of Leavis’ prose style.
Or
(b) Do
you think F.R. Leavis is correct when he says the study of literature
is an intimate study of the complexities, potentialities and essential
conditions of human nature?
Write short notes on any four of the following :—
(a) Hester Prynne;
(b) Dystopia;
(c) Coral Island;
(d) Catherine Barkley;
(e) Stream of Consciousness;
(f) Judith Shakespeare;
(g) The Couch shell;
(h) Marquis de Robellon.
ENGLISH—2008
Fourth Paper Subject Code: 1154 (A) (Modern Novel and Prose)
Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and Four others]
1.(a) Comment on Henry’s disillusionment with war in A Farewell to Arms.
Or,
(b) Write a note on Hemming way’s art of characterisation in A Farewell to Arms.
2. (a) ‘Lord of the Flies is a serious explanation of fundamental moral issues—freedom and oppression’. Discuss.
Or,
(b) What is the significance of the Coral Island in Lord of the Flies?
3.(a) In what sense is The Scarlet Letter ‘a tale of human frailly and sorrow’?
Or,
(b) Write a note on the theme of isolation in The Scarlet Letter.
4. (a) What is a science fiction? Justify the novel Brave New World as a science fiction.
Or,
(b) Comment on the female characters in Brave New World.
5. (a) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relation with the phenomena around. Discuss.
Or,
(b) Sartre’s Nausea combines phenomenology and existentialism. Elucidate.
6. (a) What, according to Virginia Woolf, are the barriers that women faced to become a writer?
Or,
(b) Why does Virginia Woolf prefer Shakespeare to Milton in her essay Shakespeare’s Sister?
7.(a) Evaluate F.R. Leavis as a literary critic.
Or,
(b) Justify the title of the essay Literature and Society.
8. Write short notes on any four of the following:—
(a) The Bloomsbury Group;
(b) Existentialism;
(c) Symbolism;
(d) New criticism;
(e) Soma;
(f) Rinaldi;
(g) Roger Chillingworth;
(h) Piggy’s Glasses.
ENGLISH—2007
[According to New Syllabus] Subject Code: 1154(A)/1154(B)/1154(C) Subject Code: 1154(A) Fourth Paper (Modern Novel & Prose) Time—4 hours, Full marks—100
[N. B.—All the questions are of equal value. Answer question No. 8 and four others.]
1. (a) What views of war and love does Hemingway convey through A Farewell to Arms?
Or,
(b) What literary craftsmanship do you notice in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms? Illustrate your answer with specific reference.
2. (a) Explain the allegorical significance of William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies,
Or,
(b) Golding has exposed the instinctive cruelty of man in his novel Lord of the Flies. Elucidate and illustrate.
3. (a) What uses of symbolism has Hawthorne made in The Scarlet Letter?
Or,
(b) Comment on Hawthorne’s art of characterization.
4. (a) What is a Satire? Consider Brave New World as a satire.
Or,
(b) What is the symbolic significance of John, the Savage?
5. (a) Critically analyze the character of Autaine Roquentin in Nausea.
Or,
(b) What do you understand by ‘bad faith’? Focus on the instances of ‘bad faith’ in Nausea.
6. (a) How does Virginia Woolf show the position of women in the 16th century?
Or,
(b) Why did Judith commit suicide? What does her suicide signify?
7. (a) Discuss the distinctive features of Leavis’ prose style.
Or,
(b) How does Leavis argue in favour of his view that literature should be based on the whole social culture?
8. Write short notes on any four of the following :—
(a) Miss Helen Ferguson;
(b) Science Fiction;
(c) Romanticism;
(d) Feminist Criticism;
(e) Catherine as a Hemingway Heroine;
(f) Moral Allegory;
(g) Pragmatism;
(h) Stream of Consciousness.
ENGLISH—2006
Fourth Paper Subject Code: 1154 (A) Time- 4 hours, Full marks-100
Subject Code: 1154(A) (Modern Novel and Prose)
[N.B. All questions are of equal value. Answer question No.8 and Four others]
1. (a) Why is Henry disillusioned with war in A Farewell to Arms?
Or,
(b) Comment on Hemingway use of symbols in A Farewell to Arms.
2. (a) How do innocence and experience connect thematically with meaning in Lord of the Flies?
Or
(b) What is the significance of the Coral Island in Lord of the Flies.
(a) Comment on the theme of crime and punishment as presented Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Or,
(b) Would you consider Hester Prynne a tragic character? Give reasons.
(a) Discuss Sartre’s analysis of consciousness of self in Nausea
Or,
(b) Nausea is the study of an individual trying to understand his relationship with the phenomena around him. Discuss.
(a) Whom do the people worship in Brave New World and why?
Or
(b) Justify the novel Brave New World as a science fiction.
(a) What is the significance of the title Shakespeare’s Sister?
Or,
(b) What, according to Virginia Woolf, are the barriers that women faced to become a writer?
(a) What does F. R. Leavis say about Romantic Movement and Romantic Age in his essay Literature and Society?
Or,
(b) Justify the title of the essay Literature and Society?
Write short notes on any four of the following:
(a) Judith Shakespeare;
(b) Rinaldi;
(c) Pearl;
(d) Feminism;
(e) Phenomenology;
(f) New Criticism
(g) Simon;
(h) The Diary in Nausea.
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