Maharashi Dayanand University (MDU) 2009 M.A English Poetry of (Previous) annual held in y, - Question Paper

Time allowed: three hours

Maximum marks: 80

Note: Attempt 5 ques. in all. ques. No. one is compulsory. For the other 4 ques. select at lowest 1 from every of the parts – A, B, C and D. All ques. carry equal marks.

1. Write short notes of about 200 words every on 4 of the subsequent items, choosing 1 from every Section:

A) a) Symbolism in The Faerie Queene.

b) Supernatural machinery in The Rape of the Lock.

B) a) Romantic elements in 'Kubla Khan'.

b) Opening of 'Dover Beach'.

C) a) Images in "The 2nd Coming".

b) Significance of September 1, 1939.

c) Critical appreciation of 'In My Craft or Sullen Art'.

D) a) Family relationship in 'Love Poem for a Wife'.

b) Sources of epicureanism in 'Sunday Morning'.

part A

2. "In (Spenser) the medieval and Renaissance met, the modern and the classical, the courtly and the popular". explain the virtues that Spenser wanted to teach through The Faerie Queene.

Or

explain the virtues that Spenser wanted to teach through The Faerie Queene.

3. explain The Rape of the Lock as a mock-epic.

Or

"Pope's poetry is town poetry". Do you agree? explain with reference to The Rape of the Lock.

part B

4. Coleridge lived "constantly in the world of imagination above and beyond the sensuous, phenomenal world". Elucidate from the prescribed poems.

Or

Throw light on Coleridge's love of the supernatural.

5. "Arnold is an unequal poet – a poet who frequently breaks down". (Saintsbury) Do you agree?

Or

explain Arnold as a representative poet of his age.

part C

6. Do you agree with the view that Yeats was an escapist?

Or

Write a note on symbolism in 'Sailing to Byzantium'.

7. How does Auden make use of myths in his poetry?

Or

Bring out a few dominant images and symbols in W.H. Auden.

8. How are the Bible, Welsh folklore and Freud intermingled in Dylan Thomas' work?

Or

Dylan Thomas' work is imbued with powerful suggestive obscurity. explain.

part D

9. "A K Ramanujan is equally alive to both the strength and the deficiencies of his religious ethos". explain.

Or

explain the ironical mode of juxtaposition in A K Ramanujan's poetry.

10. Wallace Stevens' poetry is the quest for order. explain.

Or

Wallace Stevens' is a trained observer of the 'decadence that follows the rapid acquisition of wealth and power'. explain.

Earning:   Approval pending.