Gauhati University 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) IV : Non-Fictional Prose - Question Paper

2007
ENGLISH
FOURTH PAPER
Full Marks: 80
Time: three hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the ques.
(New Syllabus)
(Non-Fictional Prose)
1. ans any 5 ques. from the following: 12×5=60
a) How important are Keats' letters for an understanding of his poetry?
From Keats' letters prescribed" in your syllabus, explain a few of the
philosophical and critical concepts which inform his verse.
b) Critically assess Arnold's views on poetry as explained in his Preface to
Poems (1853).
c) Would you consider Addison's The Spectator essays to be representative
of neo-classical prose writing? Illustrate your ans with suitable
examples from the essays that you have learn.
d) Would you subscri1?,e to the view that Lamb's essays suggest an
indifference to philosophy? Justify your stance from your studying of My
Relations.
e) Consider Virginia Woolf’s essay How it strikes a contemporary as a
modernist text in terms of theme, structure and style.
f) explain Tagore's idea of Nation as expressed in his essay Nationalism in
the West
g) Explore the neo-classical principles that shape Johnson's assessment of
Milton in Life of Milton.
h) How do the Victorian and Modern perspectives get articulated in
Chapter I and Chapter II of Russell's Autobiography?
2. Critically discuss any 3 of the subsequent with reference to the context:
4×3=12
a) "It is from the notebooks of the current that the masterpieces of the future
are made."
b) "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the
truth of the Imagination-what the imagination seizes as Beauty must be
truth-"
c) "But in retrospect, as I have grown older, I have realised more and more
the importance she had in moulding my outlook on life."
d) "They regarded the whole; we regard the parts. With them, the action
predominated over the expression of it; with us, the expression
predominates over the action!"
e) "I hate people who meet Time half way. I am for no compromise with
that inevitable spoiler."
3. Write short notes on any 2 of the following: 4×2=8
(a) Essay and letters as literary forms
(b) Russel's remembrances of his parents in Chapter I of his Autobiography
(c) Autobiography and Biography
(d) Lamb's portrayal of' his aunt in My Relations

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