Gauhati University 2007 M.A English Previous , : -II - Question Paper

And little Maximins the gods defy."
(Old syllabus)
(Poetry)
Write the answers to the 2 Halves in separate books
FIRST HALF
4. ans any 2 of the following: l0×2=20
a) Locate the allusions in The Faerie Queene within the contextual historical
milieu, and the figure of Elizabeth I. Cite examples from the text to make your
point.
b) Examine Chaucer's stance on the ecclesiastical characters in The Prologue with
illustrations from the text.
c) Analyze the paradoxes within the arguments that are put forward in the love
poetry of John Donne, and comment on the manner in which he engages with
them.
d) How do you think satirists like Pope and Dryden project their 'selves' within
their critique of the society? Compare their techniques and poetic devices with
'adequate examples.
e) Assess Wordsworth's handling of the notion of 'fear; that is associated with
nature in Bks I and II of The Prelude.
5. Write short notes on/Answer the subsequent (any four): 5×4=20
(a) The design of The Canterbury Tales as it starts to unfold in The Prologue
(b) The notion of mutability and time in Shakespeare's sonnets
(c) The 'playful' and. complex imagery of Herbert's religious verse
(d) The particular use of symbols in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
(e) Keats's ideas of forgetfulness and memory in the Odes
(f) The narrative devices used by Byron in Don Juan
(g) discuss with reference to the context:
"Where are the songs of spring?
Ay, where are they?
Think not of them-thou hast thy
music too ..."
6. ans any 2 of the subsequent questions: 14×2=28
a) "Tennyson is the most representative poet of the Victorian period."
explain with reference to In Memoriam
b) Evaluate Browning’s handling of the Dramatic Monologue with special
reference to the relevant poems prescribed for you.
c) Bring out the salient features of hardy’s lyrical poetry from your studying of his
poems prescribed for you.
d) Characterize the mature style of Yeats’s poetry with special reference to
Byzantium and Sailing to Byzantium.
e) explain the salient features of Auden’s poetry with special reference to the poems
prescribed for you.
f) Write brief critical appreciations of any 2 of the subsequent poems:
(i) Poem in October
(ii) Thrushes
(iii) Church Going
(iv) Dover Beach
(v) Felix Randall
7. Explain, any 2 of the following, with reference to their contexts: 6×2=12
(a) That's the improper country;
there man's thought
Rarers intenser,
Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought,
Chafes in the censer.
(b) When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
(c) And may her bridegroom bring
her to a house
Where all's accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
(d) It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then
in the summer noon
Though the town beneath lay leaved with
. October blood.

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