University of Delhi 2007 B.A Hons English Literature III - Question Paper

Q. 1. Identify eontextualize, discuss and critically comment on the following:

(a) (i) Has Heaven reserv’d, in pity to the Poor.
No pathless Waste, or undiscover’d shore ?
No secret Island in the boundless main ?
No peacefui Desart yet unclaim’d by Spain ?
Quick let us rise, the happy Seats explore.
And bear Oppression’s Isolence no more.


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(ii) But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time did ne’er unroll;
Chill Penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.

(b) (i) I wander thro’ every charter’d street
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.


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(ii) Could I revive within me
He symphony and Song;
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air;
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

© (i) …. on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire problem
from an old and beautiful oak, which stood
about twenty yards from our house; and so
soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak
had disappeared, and nothing remained but
a blasted stump.

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(ii) “God in pity made man beautiful and alluring
after his own image; but my form is a filthy
kind of yours, more horrid from its very resemlance
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Q. 2. (a) (i) Analyse Defoe’s ideas on English trade and trades¬men with reference to eighteenth century mercantile expansion.


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(ii) Johnson and Wordsworth propose various ideas about poetry. Examine this statement with reference to the age in which they wrote.

(b) (i) The rise of the Gothic novel.


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(ii) Comment on the alienation of man in an increasingly mercantile and industrial England with reference to mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century writing.
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Q. 3. (i) Gulliver is not a novelistically consistent character. This varying voice is described by the ever-shifting demands of satiric in¬tention. Would you agree ? provide a reasoned ans.


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(ii) Gulliver’s Travels is Swift’s most extensive commentary on political follies and vices. explain.
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Q. 4. (i) “Overall, the course of Keats’s development might be partly defined as the……..gradually cumulative loss of confidence in the merely visionary imagination.” explain in the light of the poems you have learn.


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(ii) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a self-reflexive account of the Romantic age. explain.
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