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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPERS–ENGLISH LITERATURE

16 ACCEN 5

S.No. 4629

(For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2019.

Part III English-Major

POETRY-II

Time: Three hours

Maximum 75 marks

SECTION A-(10 x 2 = 20)

Answer the following.

 

1. What is the highland girl doing according to Wordsworth?

2. What does the ballad of Sir. Patrick Spenser foretell in ‘Dejection: An Ode"?

3. How do you know of Keat's mythological interest in his Ode?

4. Describe the tomb of Ozmandias?

5. Why does Andrea del Sarto wrestle with his wife?

6. Where and whom does Jennyson grieve in 'Break, Break, Break"?

7. Why is 'Saling to Byzantium appear aesthetic?

8. Why do ambulances keep away from the living population?

9. What is the dejection of Pericles in “Marina"?

10. Why is hawk, a death personified by Ted Hughes?


SECTION B (5 x 5 = 25)

Answer the following in a paragraph, choosing either (a) or (b) in each.

 

11. (a) What does Wordsworth compare the song of the maiden?

Or

(b)How does Coleridge express dejection in life?

 

12. (a) How does Keat's contrast the mortality of a human being with the immortality of the Nightingale?

Or

(b) Why does Shelley mock the pedestal of the statue in 'Ozimandias"?

13. (a) Why does Andrea del Sarto call Lucrezia  as everybody's moon?

Or

(b) Compare and contrast life in the shore Tennyson's thoughts in 'Break’

14. (a) Why is Ireland not a right place for an man according to yeats?

Or

(b) Why are ambulances ‘closed like confessionals’?

15. (a) Bring out Eliot's usage of old self and ship in 'Marina'.

Or

(b) Why does Ted Hughes consider Hawk as symbol of inhumanity?

 

SECTION C - (3 x 10 = 30)

Answer any THREE of the following.

 

16. How does Wordsworth describe a memorable experience of his life in "The Solitary Reaper"

17. How was Keat's inspired by the song of Nightingale?

18. How does Andrea del Sarto plead with his wife Lucrezia?

19. What is the yearning of yeats in "Sailing to Byzantium"?

 20.Marina is T.S. Eliot's touching Personal poem Elucidate.


S.No. 7095

16 ACCEN 5

(For candidates admitted from 2016-2017)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION

Part III - English-Major

POETRY-II

Maximum : 75 Marks

Time: Three hours

SECTION A-(10 x 2 = 20)

Answer ALL questions.

 

1. What are the speculations of the poet subject matter of the solitary reaper's song.

2. What aspects of the king and its sculpture portrayed by the poet in 'Ozymandias"?

3. Why does the spirit of the poet sink 'Lethewan’.

4. Explain the phrase 'Perne in a gyre'.

5. What is the literary allusion to Eliot's 'Marina’?

6. What is the cause of the speaker's dejection?

7.What does he hope for in 'Dejection: An Ode’?

8. Write the importance of psychological Approach.

9. Who created archetypal criticism?

10. What are the three major sociological perspectives?

 

SECTION B-(5x5=25)

Ansswer  ALL the questions by choosing either (a) or (b)

11. (a) Write the importance of literary theory.

Or

(b) Write the various types of criticism.

12. (a) Discuss Horace's views on poetry.

Or

(b) What, according to Longinus, are the factors that make literature sublime?

13. (a) Why does Dryden consider English drama superior to French drama?

Or

(b) Evaluate Dr. Johnson's view on drama.

14. (a) How does the moralistic approach work in analyzing a story in literature?

Or

(b) Highlight the impact of Psychological approach.

15. (a) Analyse the merits of Archetypal Approach.

Or

(b) Discuss the limitations of Sociological Approach.

 

SECTION C-(3 x 10=30)

Answer any THREE questions.

16. What are the relationships between literary theory and literary criticism?

17. Examine Plato's theory of imitation.

18. Discuss Eliot's contribution and achievement as a critic.

19. Elucidate the influence of Freud on literary criticism.

20. Who are the main practitioners of Formalistic criticism?

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