Annamalai University 2008-1st Year M.A English " 550 AMERICAN LITERATURE ": ( - V ) ( ) 5395 - Question Paper
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5 3 9 5 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(FIRST YEAR)
(PAPER - V)
550. AMERICAN LITERATURE
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Answer any FIVE of the following:
I. Annotate the following passages:
1. (a) Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoke!
Leave me loneliness unbroken.
(b) Since then its centuries, and yet Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses heads Were toward eternity.
(a) I mourned, and yet shall mourn with
ever-returning spring
Every returning, spring trinity sure to me
you bring
Lilac blooming perennial and dropping
star in the west
And thought of him I love.
(b) And some are loaves and some go nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them
balance:
Stay where you are until our backs are
turned.
13. (a) Discuss the theme of sin and redemption in The Scarlet Letter.
(OR)
(b) Write on the symbolism in A Farewell To Arms.
10. (a) What do you learn about Poes
conception of poetry from his philosophy of composition ?
(OR)
(b) The American Scholar is considered the nations intellectual declaration of Independence- Do you agree ?
11. (a) How does Albee attack the American
society ?
(OR)
(b) Consider the Hairy Ape a satire on American culture.
12. (a) Justify the title All My Sons.
(OR)
(b) Evaluate Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet.
3. (a) The world is his who can see through its
pretensions.
(b) Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work yard made.
4. (a) ........ and author of Caleb Williams was
too good an artist not to perceive the advantage derivable from at least a somewhat similar process.
(b) It is the excess of suggested meaning it is rendering this the upper instead of the undercurrent of the theme which turns into prose the so-called poetry of the so-called transcendentalists.
5. (a) Im what makes iron into steel! The
rich are nothing;
de whole ting is us.
(b) You are can sit and dope dream in de
past,
Green woods de jungle and de rest of it But me I aint got no past to think .......... you belong.
6. (a) Whos married to the presidents daughter, who expected to be somebody, some book worm, somebody whos so
damn ....... contemplative, he cant make
anything out of himself, somebody without the guts to make anybody proud of him.
(b) And for my part, but that it is almost a fashion to admire her.
II. Attempt the following in about 200 words each :
7. (a) Why does Stevens call death the Emperor ?
(b) What does Henry James say about the principle and technique of novel ?
8. (a) Write on the autobiographical element
in The Glass Menagerie.
(b) Sketch the character of Jennie in Chapter Two.
Answer any THREE of the following in about 800 words each:
9. (a) Write on the characteristic features
of the poems of Emily Dickinson.
(b) Write an essay on the imagery used in the poems of Wallace Stevens.
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