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 BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER–ENGLISH LITERATURE

S.No. 4645                                                                            16 ACCEN13

(For candidates admitted from 2016–2017 onwards)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2019.

Part III — English – Major

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

 Time : 3 hours                Maximum : 75 marks

SECTION — A (10 x 2 = 20)

Answer ALL the questions.

1. In the end of the poem “The Harp of India” the poet says those hands are cold. What does it mean?

2. What is the debate in the poem “Love and Death”?

3. What is the poetic device used in the following line?

“Remote and thorny like the heart’s dark floor”.

4. What do ‘Silk and White Petal’ refer to in the poem “Of Mothers, Among other Things”?

5. Who was worried about Gandhi’s Vegetarianism?

6. What is the name of Kalam’s father and mother?

7. Why does Appanna accuse Rani?

8. How is Rani asked to prove her fidelity?

9. Who takes Munoo to Daulatpur?

10. How does Mrs. Main Warning exploit Munoo?

SECTION — B (5x 5 = 25)

Answer ALL the questions. Choosing either (a) or (b)

11. (a) Consider the poem “Love and Death” as a sonnet.

Or

(b) Comment on the literary devices in “The Harp of India” .

12. (a) How is an implied metaphor drawn between the three diversified elements in Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher?

Or

(b) How did the mother get one ofhis incident her fingers crippled? How does this incident suggest a shift in the mother’s growth?

13. (a) What were the initial reasons because which Gandhi took to Vegetarianism?

Or

(b) How did Kalam’s father explain the meaning of prayer?

14. (a) Sketch the character of Rani in Nagamandala?

Or

(b) Comment on the myths used in Nagamandala.

15. (a) Describe the theme of exploitation in Coolie.

Or

(b) Write a note on the social realism in Coolie.

SECTION — C (3 × 10 = 30)

Answer any THREE questions.

16. Attempt a critique of “The Harp of India”.

17. Comment on A.K. Ramanujan’s philosophy of life in “Of Mothers, Among other things”.

 18. Describe the episode at Holborn Restaurant in M.K. Gandhi’s “Playing the English Gentleman”.

19. Examine Man and Woman relationship in Nagamandala.

20. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie as an epic of misery.