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

3272 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, December 2002
(FIRST 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) For good unknown sure is, not bad, or bad
And yet unknown is as had at all

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

(c) All human beings are subject to decay
And when Fate summons, monarchs must obey

(d) Success let others teach, learn from me
Pangs without birth and fruitless industry.

(e) Ammon's great son 1 shoulder had too high
Such Ovid's nose and "Sir You have an eye".

(f) All Bedlam or Parnassus, it let out.

GROUP B

(g) Our countryman carries wright and yet wins the race at disadvantage.

(h) It is sufficient to say according to the proverb that 'here is God's Plenty'.

(i) He was a lion that had no skill in dandling the kid.

(j) He might still be a giant among Pigmies, the 1 - eyed monarch of the blind.

(k) Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the woman than liked.

ans any 4 questions, not omitting any part
All ques. carry equal marks.

part A (4 x 20 =80)

2. What impression have you formed of Satan from your study of "Paradise Lost" Bk. IX?

3. Consider "Mac Flecknoe" as a Satire.

4. How does 'An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' Portray contemporary social customs ?

5. What I are the chief characteristics of Gray's poetry ?

6. How does Blake current "The Tiger" as a symbol of both beauty and terror and of a force that was both destructive and regenerative ?

part B

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

8. Bring out the allegory used by Swift in "Battle of the Books".

9. elaborate Burke's arguments, for conciliation for conciliation with America?

10. "Joseph Andrews" operates on 2 related but quite various bases : a theory of the comic epic and, powerful satire". - discuss.

11. Do you support the view that "Coverly Papers" brings us within measurable distance of the genuine eighteenth century novel ?

12. Though your study of "The life of Milton", consider Johnson as a critic.

part - C

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

14. What insight into the country life of the time does Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to conquer" provide us?

Earning:   Approval pending.