Annamalai University 2002 M.A English 130 - MODERN LITERATURE - III (1789-1880) - Question Paper

7313 M.A. DEGREE exam
May 2002 1st Year
(ENGLISH)
Paper - II
130 - MODERN LITERATURE - III (1789-1880)

Time three Hours
Maximum 100 Marks

ans ques. 1 and 4 others, choosing 2 from.
part A and 2 from part B.
All ques. carry equal marks.

I. Annotate any 5 of, the subsequent passages choosing atleast 2 from every group.

GROUP - A (5x4 = 20)

(a) But yet I know, where'er, I go
That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth.

(b) It was an act of stealth
And troubled pleasure.

(c) Where Alph the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

(d) He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely

(e) Awake ! arise ! my love and fearless be
For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

GROUP - B

(f) We were a sort of Helots to his young Spartans.

(g) Why take pains to prove that an ape is not a Newton when it is self - evident that he is not a man?

(h) But poets do not write for poets alone, but for men.

(i) Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart obtain a better soil in which they can attain their maturity.

(j) He thought an accountant the greatest character in the world and himself the greatest accountant in it.

part - A (2 x 20 ~ 10)

2. is 'The growth of a poet's mind', an apt title for "The Prelude" ?

3. Consider "Kublakhan" as a piece of verbal magic inspired in a dream.

4. Shelley's "Adonais" is platonism transferred into pure poetry. explain.

5. provide an account of the romantic features of Keats' poetry.

6. How far does Keats succeed in imparting to the "Eve of St. Agnes" a vivid pictorial quality ?

7. elaborate the distinctive qualities of Lamb's humour?

part - B (2 x 20 = 40)

8. Comment on Shelley's idea of liberty and regeneration in "The Westwind" ?

9. Examine Coleridge's objection to Wordsworth C, 's In's theory of poetic diction.

10. How does Shelley support his assertion that the distinction ranging from poets and prose authors is a vulgar error?

11. "We learn more of the portrait - painter than that of his sitters". Examine this judgement on "My 1st acquaintance with poets".

12. "Like Shakespeare, Scott does not judge, he records". Substantiate this statement with reference to "The Heart off Midlothian".

13. Consider Jane Austen as a 'domestic novelist'.

14. The theme of "The confessions of an opium Eater".

Earning:   Approval pending.