Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2009 B.A English Beg-4 : the twentieth century ,uary - Question Paper

UG - 285 BEG-4

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION JANUARY 2009.

(AY - 2003-04 and CY - 2004 batches only)

Second Year

English

BEG-4 : THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Time : 3 hours (Maximum marks : 75)

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1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in 30 words : (5 * 3 = 15)

(a) What would happen if one introspects another according to Sir Ernest Barker?

(b) What makes Shaw say that the auto-biographies are dull?

(c) Describe Orwells experiences as an inpatient.

(d) What was ancient Indians contribution to mathematics?

(e) What are the books that interest Maugham in old age?

(f) What is the observation of the Eugenist about the unknown citizen?

(g) How is stillness expressed in the poem The Listeners?

(h) What is the prayer to the father of the poet, Dylan Thomas?

2. Write short essays on any THREE in about 200 words : (3 * 10 = 30)

(a) How does Shaw satirize the exploitation of the public by allowing the private sector flourishing under the banner of capitalism in The Apple Cart?

(b) What are the views of Shaw with regard to autobiographies and biographies in Bernard Shaws Apology for his Self-sketches?

(c) Consider Yeats Sailing to Byzantium as a poem about art.

(d) Examine Wilfred Owens Insensibility as a specimen of war-poem.

(e) How has the poet Walter De La Mare evoked an eerie atmosphere in The Listeners?

(f) Describe the stream of consciousness technique adopted in Virginia Woolfe's To The Lighthouse.

3. Write an essay on any TWO of the following : (2 * 10 = 20)

(a) What are the views of Louis Fischer about Gandhi in Soul Force?

(b) Describe the philosophy of hats as revealed by A.G. Gardiner.

(c) Why has Ted Hughes violated the basic connection of writing in Hawks Roosting?

(d) Consider Jimmy Porter of Look Back in Anger as an angry young man.

4. Write an essay on any ONE of the following : (1 *10 = 10)

(a) What is spoonerism and what are the personal characterisation of Dr. Spooner?

(b) Bring out the satire in The Unknown Citizen.

(c) How does T.S. Eliot treat the central theme of the play, martyrdom, in Murder in the Cathedral?

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