Annamalai University 2008-1st Year M.A English " 530 RONTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS " ( - III ) ( ) 5393 - Question Paper
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Attempt the following in about 200 words each :
7. (a) Consider Byrons Vision of Judgement
as a political satire.
(b) Attempt an appreciation of Swinburnes The Garden of Proserpine.
8. (a) Account for the popularity of Thomas De
Quinceys Confessions of an Opium Eater.
(b) Consider Coleridge as a critic.
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
Answer any THREE of the following questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) Show how the landscape of The lotos
Eaters is in perfect harmony with the mental condition of the mariners.
(OR)
(b) Discuss Shelleys conception of Beauty as expressed in his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.
Name of the Candidate :
5 3 9 3 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(FIRST YEAR)
( PAPER - III)
530. ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. (a) Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea !
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
(b) Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ;
The Soul that rises with us, our Lifes
star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar.
2. (a) Was it a vision, or a waking dream ?
Fled is that music ; - do I wake or sleep ?
(b) All things have rest, and ripen toward
the grave
In silence ; ripen, fall, and cease :
Give us long rest or death, dark death or
dreamful ease.
3. (a) Love, we are in Gods hand.
How strange now, looks the life he
makes us lead !
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
(b) But fly our paths, our feverish contact fly !
For strong the infection of our mental strife,
Which, though it gives no bliss, yet spoils
for rest ;
4. (a) I am entirely unacquainted with the
modern languages ; and like a better man than myself, have small Latin and less Greek.
(b) On the Muses hill he is happy and good, as one of the shepherds on the Delectable Mountains ; and when he goes about with you to show you the halls and colleges, you think you have with you the interpreter at the House Beautiful.
5. (a) No wealth will bribe, no name overawe,
no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates.
(b) That Snowdon is your Parnassus ; but where are its Muses ? That Holyhead mountain is your Island of AEgina ; but where is its Temple of Minerva ?
6. (a) An engagement should come on a young
girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.
(b) Maturity can always be depended on Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green.
10. (a) The perfect egotist is the perfect
essayist. - Examine Lambs essays in the light of this statement.
(OR)
(b) Consider Dante as Carlyles Hero - Poet.
11. (a) Discuss the character and role of Lady
Bracknell in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest.
(OR)
(b) Discuss the title of Arms and the Man.
12. (a) Sketch the character of Jeanie Deans in
Scotts The Heart of Midlothian.
(OR)
(b) Do you agree with the view that Parson Collins is one of the most unforgettable character in Pride and Prejudice ?
13. (a) How does George Eliot narrate the story
of the redemption of an embittered miser through love and affection ?
(OR)
(b) Discuss A Tale of Two Cities as a historical novel.
10. (a) The perfect egotist is the perfect
essayist. - Examine Lambs essays in the light of this statement.
(OR)
(b) Consider Dante as Carlyles Hero - Poet.
11. (a) Discuss the character and role of Lady
Bracknell in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest.
(OR)
(b) Discuss the title of Arms and the Man.
12. (a) Sketch the character of Jeanie Deans in
Scotts The Heart of Midlothian.
(OR)
(b) Do you agree with the view that Parson Collins is one of the most unforgettable character in Pride and Prejudice ?
13. (a) How does George Eliot narrate the story
of the redemption of an embittered miser through love and affection ?
(OR)
(b) Discuss A Tale of Two Cities as a historical novel.
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