Annamalai University 2008-1st Year M.A English " 540 NEW LITERATURES IN " ( - IV ) ( ) 5394 - Question Paper
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8. (a) Account for the popularity of the play
Muktha Dhara.
(b) What are Achebes ideas in The Novelist as Teacher ?
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
Answer any THREE questions.
ALL questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) Write a critical appreciation of the poem
Night of the Scorpion.
(OR)
(b) Bring out the greatness of Judith Wright as a poet.
10. (a) Discuss Kamala Das as a confessional
poet.
(OR)
(b) Describe the three varieties of the Dance of Shiva.
11. (a) Bring out Rygas message in The Ecstasy
of Rita Joe.
(OR)
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
( FIRST YEAR)
( PAPER - IV)
540. NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Answer any FIVE questions.
ALL questions carry equal marks.
I. Annotate the following passages :
1. (a) Also emperors and poets who slept in my arms
(b) Theres eaglewood in my hair and stale flowers.
2. (a) May the sins of your previous birth be
burned away tonight, they said.
(b) After twenty hours It lost its sting.
3. (a) And mow the ravening
Soul, fulfilled, his first - lasr hour upon him, chooses to exult.
(b) Nothing stays out; daughters
get married to short - lived idiots,
Sons who run away come back.
4. (a) Torn in the black under the race,
Of the icicle - sharp kaleidoscopic white
sky,
Bursts into sudden flower.
(b) I found in ordinary love The solitudes of poetry.
5. (a) He rises from his rapture, and dancing
sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and lot matter also, dances appending as a glory round about him.
(b) This dance of Shiva in Chidambaram or Thillai forms the motif of South India Copper images of Shri Nataraja.
6. (a) Well, you have robbed and killed. Now
all you have to do to become a saint is to rape.
(b) Dont cover him, Barani. I want my people to see his wounds.
II. Answer the following questions in aboput 200 words each :
7. (a) Write a critical appreciation of the poem
Australia.
(b) What does Chowdhri say sbout the Unknown Indian ?
(b) What does Atwood say in Survival ?
12. (a) Consider A Train to Pakistan a partition
novel.
(OR)
(b) Account for the popularity of The Lion and the Jewel.
13. (a) Give a critical analysis of Things Fall
Apart.
(OR)
(b) Bring out the symbolism in A House for Mr. Biswas.
(b) What does Atwood say in Survival ?
12. (a) Consider A Train to Pakistan a partition
novel.
(OR)
(b) Account for the popularity of The Lion and the Jewel.
13. (a) Give a critical analysis of Things Fall
Apart.
(OR)
(b) Bring out the symbolism in A House for Mr. Biswas.
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