Vinayaka Missions University 2008 M.A English BRITISH POETRY : - Question Paper

COURSE CODE- 2010104
PG DEGREE exam - SEP 2008
M.A (ENG)
BRITISH POETRY
(For Candidate Admitted from Calendar 2007 Onwards)
Time : three hrs Max Marks:75
part - A
ans all the Questions:- 15 X one = 15
1. Prioness
2. Ash Wednesday
3. Metaphysical conceit
4. Donne’s simile
5. Pastoral elegy
6. Euphrosyne
7. Thomas shadwell
8. Dr. Aubuthmot
9. Kubla khan
10. Titans
11. Porphyria
12. Pre-raphaelite poets
13. Irish patrotism of yeast
14. T.S. Eliot’s symbolism
15. Poetry of sylvia plath confessional
part – B
ans any 5 ques. five X six = 30
16. a.Describe Chaucer’s The nun’s priest’s Tale as a beast fable
(OR)
b. Comment on the use of Petnarchan sonnets in spenser’s Amoreti.
17. a. discuss John Donne’s employment of metaphysical conceit in
The Exstasie
(OR)
b.How does milton the happy and sad men in his L’ Allegro and Jl
Pensenoso
18. a. Brief about the pontrait of or -Arbuthnot
(OR)
b. discuss Coteridge’s use of supernaturalion in Kubla Khan
19. a. How does keats make use of myth in Hyperion?
(OR)
b. The Blessed Damozel is a splendid poet of artisting and artwork.
20. a. Bring out yeats depiction of Byzantium
(OR)
b). Write a snippet on Dylan Thomas The porm in , October .
part –C
ans any 2 ques. two X15 = 30
21. Write an essay on the portrait gallery of pilgrims in Chaucer’s The
canterbury Tales
22. How doesDryden attack his political opponent shadwell in Mac
Flecknoe
23. Bring out the autobiographical element in wordworrth’s The Prelude
24. discuss T.S. Eliot’s use of symbolism in The Roastaland
25. How is Donne’s poety called metaphysical poetry/ discuss with
special refrence to his poems.

Earning:   Approval pending.