Annamalai University 2002 M.A English - 120 Modern Literature II - - Question Paper

7312 M.A. DEGREE exam
May 2002 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)

(a) If this be our, condition, thus to dwell
In narrow circuit straightened by a foe
Subtle or violent, we not endured.

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

(c) "Thy Tragic Muse provide smiles, thy comoic sleep
With whate'er gall thou settlst thyself
Thy in offensive satires never bite"

(d) Heywood and Shirley were but kinds of thee,
Thou I last great prophet of tautology.

(e) The rest to a few faint meaning make pretence.
But shadewell never deviates into sense.

(f) Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ?

GROUP - B

(g) Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or Paradoxical; for if I have Milton against me. I have Socrates on my side ".

(h) He might still be the giant of the pygmies; the 1 - eyed monarch of the blind".

(i) "One warms you by degrees, the other set you on fire all at once

Words are not like landmarks so sacred as not to be removed.

(k) Now don't attempt to extricate yourself from matters, You know I have proof controvertible of it.

(l) If even you betray what you are entrusted with, you forfeit my malevolence for ever.

part - A (4 x 20 = 80)

2. explain Paradise Lost as an epic.

3. Consider Alac Flecknoe as a mock epic.

4. Pope's talent for satire and argument in verse is unsurpassed. explain this statement with reference to his " Epostle to Dr. Arbuthnot".

5. Thomas Gray's special contribution to poetry lies in the fastidious accuracy of his natural descriptions " - explain.

6. Comment on Thomson's treatment of nature.

part -B

7. Dryden's Preface to Fables is considered to be an excellent example " of descriptive Criticism explain.

8. Write an essay on Johnsons charges against Milton as a poet.

9. How does Edmund Burke establish that conciliation was the only method to deal with the Americans?

10. Consider the Coverly Papers as a preliminary to. the English novel.

11. Write a critique on Fielding's Joseph Andrews.

12. Treat the Battle of the Books as a satire.

part - C

13. “Sheridan's comedy is artificial, not natural and the touch stone of his excellence is not life but manners," - explain.

14. Attempt an. appreciation of the humour in the play She Stoops -to Conquer

Earning:   Approval pending.