Annamalai University 2011-3rd Year B.A English , ( ) ( ) ( part - iii ) ( - ix ) 740american literature - Question Paper
B.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2011
( ENGLISH )
( 3rd YEAR )
( PART - III )
( PAPER - IX )
740. AMERICAN LITERATURE
( Including Double Degree & Lateral Entry )
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Name of the Candidate :
(ENGLISH)
(THIRD YEAR)
(PART - III)
(PAPER - IX)
(Including Double Degree & Lateral Entry)
May ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
I. Annotate FIVE of the following passages, choosing atleast TWO from each group :
(5x4 =20)
1. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each
purple curtain
Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors
never felt before.
2. As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst, agonized and clear.
3. And neigh like Boanerges:
Then, punctual as a star,
Stopdocile and ominipotent
At its own stable door.
4. I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
5. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near
6. The Priest, becomes a farm; the attorney a statute book;The mechanic a machine; the sailor a rope of the ship.
7. And, in fine, the ancient precept know thyselfand the modern precept study. Nature becomes at last one maximum.
(b) Comment on Poes views on the mood or tone of the poem.
IV Attempt TWO of the following : ( 2x 20= 40)
17. Narrate the adventures of Tom Sawyer.
18. Comment on Hemingways use of suspense in Snows of Kilimanjaro.
19. Examine The Emperor Jones as an expressionist play .
20. Analyse the theme of loneliness in
The Glass Managerie.
13. (a) What, according to Sandburg, are the
merits and defects of Chicago?
(OR)
(b) Give an account of Cummings response to the death of Buffalo Bill.
III. Attempt any ONE of the following : (20)
14. (a) How does Poe illustrate his theory of
poetic composition in his The Philosophy of Composition ?
(OR)
(b) Treat American Scholar as an intellectual declaration of independence.
15. (a) What, according to Emerson, are the
duties of the American Scholar ?
(OR)
(b) Discuss Babbitts analysis of American literary figures.
16. (a) The Art of Fiction is the poetics of
modern fiction. - Discuss.
(OR)
8. It is a shame to him ..... if he seeks a
temporary place by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an Ostrich in the flowering bushes.
9. Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
10. There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story.
II. Attempt ONE of the following : (20)
11. (a) How does Poe describe his love for
Annabel Lee ?
(OR)
(b) How does Emily Dickinson react to the sight of a snake in the grass ?
12. (a) Bring out the special features of Frosts
nature poetry.
(OR)
(b) Consider Robert Frosts West-Running Brook as a philosophical poem.
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