Annamalai University 2000 M.A English - 120 Modern Literature II - - Question Paper

3251 M.A. DEGREE exam
December 2000 1st Year
(ENGLISH)
Paper - II
120 - MODERN LITERATURE - II (1600-1789)

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)

1. (a) Thus saying, from her hasband's hand
her hand soft she withdrew

(b) How shall I behold the face
Henceforth of God or Angel erst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld?

(c) "The piece you think is in correct'? Why take it,
I' am all submission, what you'd have it, make it.

(d) yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came

(e) The mantle Fell to the young prophet's part
with double portion of his father's art.'

(f) But shadwell's genuine night admits no ray
His rising fogs prevail upon the day.

GROUP - B

(g) Spenser more than once insinuates, that the soul of chaucer was transfused into his body.

(h) If the searchers obtain any In the Cargo, let them be destroyed or seized like contraband goods"

(i) He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;
he who thus praises will confer no honour.

(j) His cheerfulness is without levity and his
pensiveness without asperity

(k) Ah, madam our memories are independent
of our is not so easy to forget.

(l) I own I am unfit for company.

part - A (4x20 =80)

2. Comment on Milton's Portrayal of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost Book IX.

3. Consider Mac Flecknoe as a mock epic.

4. "Poper is unable to conceal the bitterness of his personal grievances in "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" -Discuss.

5. Comment on Thomson's treatment of nature,

6. Write critical appreciation of an "Elegy written in a country churchyard".

SECTION-B

7. Comment upon the attitudes and Qualities that mark I.- William Collins as a pre-Romantic poet

8. Sum up Dryden's critical appreciation of Chaucer in Preface to the Fables

9. explain Johnson's charges against Milton as a poet.

10. Enumerate Burke's arguments in favour of conciliation with America.

11. Comment on the characterisation and the narrative element in the Coverly Papers.

12. explain the Battle of the Books as a satire

part - C

13. Comment the elements of humour and satire in The Rivals.

14. explain the character of Mrs. Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer.

Earning:   Approval pending.