Annamalai University 2008-2nd Year M.A English " 610 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE " ( - VI ) ( ) 5396 - Question Paper
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
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Answer any THREE questions. All questions carry equal marks.9. (a) Evaluate The Waste Land as a
commentary on the predicament of the man in the modern world.
(OR)
(b) Comment on the themes of Dylan Thomass poetry.
10. (a) How does Ted Huges speak through
Hawk informing human right to be single minded in its activism.
(OR)
(b) What, according to Huxley, is the nature of war and what are the causes behind it ?
11. (a) How does T.S.Eliot prove that poetry
is not the expression of personality but an escape from it in his Tradition and Individual Talent ?
Name of the Candidate :
5 3 9 6 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(SECOND YEAR)
(PAPER - VI)
610. TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
(Including Lateral Entry )
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Annotate the following passages :
(a) And therefore I have sailed to the seas
and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
(b) Hurry up please its time Hurry up please its time
2. (a) In Brueghels Icarus, for instance : for
instance; how everything turns away, Quite leisurely from the disaster.
(b) Good men, the last wave by, crying
how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a
green bay
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
3. (a) Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation
is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
(b) But connotations are important in poetry and do enter significantly into the structure of meaning which is the poem.
4. (a) Youre hurt because everything is changed.
Jimmy is hurt because everything is the
same ....
Somethings gone wrong, somewhere,
hasnt it......(b) I have no sons ! I have no daughters !
5. (a) In what way does the golden bird
accentuate the rendering of the poem Sailing to Byzantium ?
(b) Critically examine Spenders humanistic and liberal minded observation of the pains of humanity as expressed in his poems.
6. (a) Write a short note on the central
metaphor in Eighth Air Force.
(b) Explain E.M.Forsters views on culture.
7. (a) What are the reasons for Jimmy
Porters anger ?
(b) Bring out the role of destiny and fate in the play Riders to the Sea.
8. (a) How does Marlow help Jim?
(b) Justify the tittle The Power and the Glory.
(b) What are Brookes views on irony as a principle of structure ?
12. (a) Osborne expresses the fury and
disillusionment, the frustration and anger of an entire post-war generation. -Illustrate.
(OR)
(b) Criticise Lear as a parable on corruption by power and power by corruption.
13. (a) Discuss the importance of epiphany in
Stephens development as an artist.
(OR)
(b) How powerful is Mrs. Dalloway as a work of social crticism ?
(OR)
(c) Discuss the relationship Ralph and Jack in terms of good and evil.
(b) What are Brookes views on irony as a principle of structure ?
12. (a) Osborne expresses the fury and
disillusionment, the frustration and anger of an entire post-war generation. -Illustrate.
(OR)
(b) Criticise Lear as a parable on corruption by power and power by corruption.
13. (a) Discuss the importance of epiphany in
Stephens development as an artist.
(OR)
(b) How powerful is Mrs. Dalloway as a work of social crticism ?
(OR)
(c) Discuss the relationship Ralph and Jack in terms of good and evil.
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