Annamalai University 2003 M.A English 130 - MODERN LITERATURE - III (1789-1880) - Question Paper

8323 M.A. DEGREE exam
May 2003 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) That there hath Past away
A glasy from the earth'.

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

(c) It was a miracle of rare device,
A Sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.

(d) "Peace, Peace ! He is not dead ; he doth riot sleep
He hath awakened from the dream of life

(e) Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter, Therefore, ye soft pipes play on".

GROUP -B

(f) He is a, man speaking to men.

(g) 'Except this 1 restriction, there is no object
standing ranging from the poet and the image of things.

(h) The mighty feature is nothing, being
every thing the past is every thing
being nothing.

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

(j) He is awkward and out of place in the society of his equals.

part - A (2 x 20 = 40)

2. Write an essay, on Wordsworth's view of childhood as expressed in the Immortality ode.

3. In what sense is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" a romantic poem ?

4. "Human life and happiness may be brief, yet art may enshrine "them with an ideal beauty that outlives the years",. explain with reference to Keat's "Ode on, a, Grecian urn".

5. What poetic conventions that have been followed in "Adonals" make it a pastoral elegy ?

6. Why - does Wordsworth advocate the language of Common man ?

7. provide a critical estimate of Lamb's mastery of English prose.

part - B (2 x 20 = 40)

8. What do you learn of Wordsworth's Philosophy from his -"Tintein Abbey"?

9. Bring out Shelley's imaginative power as revealed in "Ode. to the West Wind".

10. elaborate Coleridge's views on the structure and growth of a poem?

11. Evaluate Shelley ) s "Defence of Poetry" as a document in literary criticism.

12. Examine the literary, value of De.Quincay's "Confession".

13. Consider "The Heart of Midlothian", as a tragedy of the domestic kind,

14. Bring out the significance of the title “Pride and Prejudice".

Earning:   Approval pending.