Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU) 2006-2nd Year M.A English -1, year- - Question Paper
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PGEG-I
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Term End Examination 2006
(Part-I)
ENGLISH
Paper I
Time 4 hours Full marks100
PGEG-I
(Weightage of marks80%)
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each question has been indicated in the margin.
Section A
PGEG-I
Attempt any two of the following : 18x2=36
(1) Write a critical note on Chaucers humour with close reference to his delineation of the secular characters in the Prologue.
(2) Bring out the main themes in Shakespeares sonnets prescribed in your syllabus.
(3) Examine Miltons use of cpic devices in Paradise Lost, Book I.
(4) Keats is not merely a sensuous poet ; he is full of certain ideas. Discuss with reference to Keatss odes.
Section B
PGEG-I
Attempt any three of the following : 12x3=36
(5) Resolution and Independence reveals Wordsworths vision of the dignity of the Natural Man. Elucidate with reference to the text.
(6) Is Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came an allegorical poem ? Give reasons for your answer.
(7) How far would it be appropriate to call The Scholar Gipsy a poem of retreat or escape ?
(8) Assess No coward soul is mine as a valedictory poem.
(9) Discuss the use of symbolism in the poetry of Yeats referring in particular to Sailing to Byzantium.
(10) Bring out the element of Englishness in The Whitsun Weddings.
Section C
(11) Locate and annotate any four of the following :
7x4=28
(a) Not one, but all mankinds epitome.
(b) This painted child of dirt, that stinkes and stings.
(c) His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
(d) Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain.
(e) I am grown peaceful as old age to night.
(f) Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
(g) For in everything he did he served the
Greater Community.
(h) My eye has permitted no change,
I am going to keep things like this.
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