Annamalai University 2002 M.A English , - Question Paper

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, December 2002
(FIRST YEAR) (ENGLISH) (PAPER - 1)
110 MODERN LITERATURE -I
(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) Full worthy was he in his lordes werre
And there to hadde he riden no man ferre
As wel in cristendom as hethenesse,
And evere honourned for his worthinesse.

(b) And let faire Venus that is queer, of love,
With her heart - quelling Sonne upon you smile,
Whose smile they say, hath vertue to remove
All loves dislike, and friendships faultie guide
For ever to assoile.

(c) 2 loves I have of comfort and despair
Which like 2 spirits do suggest me still.

(d) Love's not time's feel, though rosy lips and cheeks
With In his bending seike's compass come.

(e) Only our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away.
But actually keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

(f) If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 't was but a dream of thee

GROUP - B

(g) I conjure you all that have had the evil luck to learn this ink wasting toy of mine, even in the name (if the 9 muses, no more to scorn the sacred mysteries of poesy.

(h) By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the poet, with that identical hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth.

(i) Revenge is a type of wild justice.

(j) Therefore, if a man look- sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though he be blind, yet she is not invisible.

(k) Marry, young lust in old and old in young, here : Thy wife's their bawd, here have I gaken lem.

part - A (2 x 26 = 40)

2. How far is Chaucer's "Prologue" a satire?

3. Consider "Prothalamion" as Spenser's great poetic success.

4. Analyse Shakespeare's views on love and beauty as seen in the prescribed sonnets.

5. Write a note on Donne as a 'Monarch of art'.

6. Attempt an appreciation of Herbert as a religious poet.

7. Why is Spenser called a poet's poet?

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

part - B (2 x 20 = 40)

9. Critically examine what Sidney says about poetry, history and philosophy.

10. explain Bacon as a practical philosopher,

11. Account for the lasting appeal of Thomas More's "Utopia".

12. Justify the title "Everyman in His Humour".

13. elaborate the 2 plots in Middleton's "Changeling" ?, Write a note on their coherence.

14. What is the moral of Heywood's "A Woman Killed with Kindness" ?

Earning:   Approval pending.