Annamalai University 2002 M.A English , - Question Paper

7311 M.A. DEGREE exam
May 2002 (First Year)
(ENGLISH)
(Paper - 1)
110. MODERN LITERATURE - one (1400-1600)

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) He was the beste beggere in his house
For though a wydwe hadde noght a sho
So plesaunt was his In principio,
Yet wolde he have a ferthynge er he wente

(b) In sweetest Season, when every flower and weede
The earth did fresh array, So fresh they seem'd as day,
Even as their Brydale day, which was not long

(c) Yet for him this, my love no whit disdaineth,
Suns of the world may staine, where heavens sun staineth.

(d) It is the star to every wandrin barke,
Whose worths unkowne, although his bight be taken.

(e) Where can we finde 2 better hemispheares
Without sharpe North, without declining West ?

(f) Who is so safe as wee ? Where none can doe
Treason to us, other than 1 of us two.

GROUP - B

(g) for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth ; to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.

(h) And, lastly and chiefly, they cry out with an open mouth', as if they had overshot Robin Hood, that Plato banished them out of his Commonwealth

(i) The third, and greatest, is, that it depriveth a man of 1 of the most principal instruments for action; which is trust and belief.

(j) It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature.

(k) Nay, would ourselves were not the first, even parents
That did destroy the hopes in our own children;
Or they had not studied our vices in their cradles
And sucked in our ill customs with their milk.

(l) This night we'll dedicate
To friendship, love and laughter.

part - A (2 x 20 = 40)

2. explain Chaucer's portraiture of representative figures from the secular world of his time in the 'Prologue'.

3. Comment on the view that 'Prothalamion' defines the formalities of betrothat and not the rapture of consummated love.

4. With reference to any 6 of the prescribes sonnets, define Shakespeare's relationship with the protagonist.

5. Examine Donne's 'The Good Morrow' and 'The Anniversary' as complementary love poems.

6. Analyse the prescribed poems of Wyatt 'as expressions of unrequited love.

7. Bring out the metaphysical style and religious content of the poems of Herbert prescribed for you.

8. Examine the lyricism in the prescribed poems of Wyatt.

part - B (2 x 20 = 40)

9. Examine Sidney's analysis of the moral value of poetry.

10. How do idealism and practical wisdom combine in the prescribed essays of Bacon ?

11. Examine the Platonic aspects of More UTOPIA?

12. Analyse the character kinds in EVERYMAN IN HIS HUMOUR.

13. explain THE CHANGELING as a study in the conflict of passion and judgement and of the transforming power of love.

14. Analyze the punishment inflicted on Anne in A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS as a species of long-drawn out cruelty to which instant punishment would have been profitable.

Earning:   Approval pending.