M.A-M.A English 2nd Year Paper - IV : TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA (Acharya Nagarjuna University - Center for Distance Education, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2013)

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M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DEC. - 2013 
Second Year 
English 
Paper - IV : TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA 

Time : 03 Hours                                                                                 Maximum Marks : 80 

Question No.1 in Unit - I is compulsory 
Answer any Two questions each from Unit -II and Unit - III 
All questions carry equal marks 

Unit - I 
1) Annotate any FOUR of the following : (16) 
a) A few thousand will think day 
As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual. 
b) High tide and the heron dived when I took the road over the border. 
And the gates 
Of the town closed as the town awoke. 
c) And I am dumb to tell the hanging man 
How of my day is made the hangman’s lime. 
d) For death was young again; pation alone of healthy dying, premature fate-spasm. 
e) This is where the starting angels go through. This is where all the stars bow down. 
f) The thorns 
Quivered, ridelled with the glassy verticles 
I stayed on under the welding cold. 
g) That whitsum, I was late getting away: 
Not till about 
One twenty on the sunlit Saturday 
h) If you’re that afeard, let shown Keogh stop along with you. It’s the will of God, I am 
thinking, himself should be seeing to you now. Unit – II 16 × 2 = 32 
2) How can you say that Auden is a modern poet from his poem In memory of W.B. Yeats? 
3) Comment on the poetic style and influences of Dylan Thomas 
4) Bring out the physical and mental scars of world war one as portrayed in Robert Graves’ 
poem Recalling war. 
5) Comment on the animal imagery in Ted Hughes’ Poems. 
6) Describe Philip Larkin as a movement poet. 
7) Write an essay on the salient features of modern poetry. 
8) Explain the contribution of synge to the Irish theatre 

Unit – III 16 × 2 = 32 

9) Discuss the central theme in Thomas Gunn’s My Sad Captains 
10) Evaluate spender as a poet of social justice. 
11) A Phoenix too frequent is described as “Lovely widow: healthy corporal” – Explain. 
12) ‘Comment on the technique used in Bechotts’ play Happy Days. 
13) Consider Pinter’s The Birthday Party as a ‘Comedy of menace’. 
14) Write short notes on any Four of the following : 
a) Blach comedy 
b) Poetic drama 
c) Movement poetry 
d) Imagery 
e) War drama/poetry 
f) Lyricusim 
g) Animal imagery 
h) Asurd theatre