Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2009 B.A English Beg-23 : romantic age ,uary - Question Paper

UG - 298 BEG-23

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION JANUARY 2009

(AY 2004-05 batch onwards)

Second Year

English

BEG-23 : ROMANTIC AGE

Time : 3 hours ( Maximum marks : 75)

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1. Annotate any FIVE of the following : (5 * 3 = 15)

(a) Five years have past : five summers; with the length

Of five long winters! And again I hear these waters, rolling from

Their mountain-springs.

(b) Instead of the cross, the albatross

About my neck was hung.

(c) Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

(d) Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

(e) Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought.

(f) Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is :

What if my leaves are falling like its own!

(g) A poem is the very image of life

expressed in its eternal truth.

(h) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

2. Answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each: (3 * 10 = 30)

(a) How far is Wordsworth successful in his recollection of childhood in Tintern Abbey?

(b) Bring out the main romantic elements in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

(c) Give the critical appreciation of Ode on a Grecian Urn.

(d) Trace Shelley's attitude to Nature as found in Ode to the West wind.

(e) Character of Squire Hard castle in She Stoops to Conquer.

(f) Consider Jane Austen as a novelist of manners.

3. Answer any TWO of the following in about 200 words each : (2 * 15 = 30)

(a) Give a critique of the play She Stoops to Conquer

(b) Character of Mr. Knightley in Emma.

(c) Bring out the theme of the novel Frankestein.

(d) Write a critical appreciation of Ivanhoe.

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