Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2009 B.A English Beg-1 : the elizabethan age ,uary - Question Paper

UG - 281 BEG-1

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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION JANUARY 2009

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

First Year

English

BEG-1 : THE ELIZABETHAN AGE

Time : 3 hours ( Maximum marks : 75)

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1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 30 words each: (5 * 3 = 15)

(a) Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch as a robe or mantle with a long train is for race.

(i) Who is the speaker?

(ii) What is the disadvantage of a long speech?

 

(b) The blessing of Judah and lssachar will never meet. That the same people or nation, should be both the lions whelp and the seas between burdens.

(i) Bring out the Biblical allusion.

(ii) What does Bacon want to convey through the allusion?

 

(c) Celsus could never have spoken it as a physician, had he not been a wise man withal; when he gives it for one of the great precepts of health and lasting. That a man do vary and interchange contraries.

(i) Who is Celsus?

(ii) What are his recommendations to lead a healthy life?

 

(d) It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

(i) Who has written these lines?

(ii) What does the author try to imply?

 

(e) When that I think what grief it is again? To live and lack the thing should rid my pain

(i) Who is the speaker?

(ii) What is the thing that the poet feels lacking in his life?

 

(f) Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

(i) What does Shakespeare mean by summers day?

(ii) Who is more lovely and more temperate?

 

(g) Each man me telleth I change most device ;

And on my faith, me think it good reason

To change propose like after the season.

(i) What is the complaint lodged by ‗each man against the poet?

(ii) How does the poet justify his behavior?

 

(h) And I will make thee beds of Roses,

And a thousand fragrant poesies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,

Embroidered all with leaves of Mirtle.

(i) From which poem these lines are taken?

(ii) What does the poet offer to the person

addressed?

 

(i) I see an angel hovers ovr thy head,

And, with a vial full of precious grace,

Offers to pour the same into thy soul:

Then call for mercy, and avoid despair.

(i) Who speaks these words?

(ii) What advice does the speaker offer to Faustus?

(j) Who pulls me down?

See, See, where Christs blood streams in the firmament!

One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ!

(i) Who is the speaker?

(ii) What do you understand from these

lines?

 

2. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each : (2 * 5 = 10)

(a) Write briefly on Wyatts sonnet -Each man me Telleth‖.

(b) Comment on Bacons essay -Of Friendship‖.

(c) Explain Marlowes conception of tragedy.

(d) Analyze the problem of suffering as presented in The Book of Job.

 

3. Write on THREE of the following in about 200 words each : (3 * 10 = 30)

(a) (i) Write a note on the universal appeal of Bacons essays. Or

(ii) Consider The Book of Job as a master piece.

(b) (i) Write a critical appreciation of the poem -Tell me, Thou Skilful Shepherds Swain Or

(ii) Comment on Spencers sonnet _Being

Myself Captivated Here

(c) (i) Critically examine the theme of Dr. Faustus. Or

(ii) -There is no normal man or woman in Everyman in His Humour - Discuss.

 

4. Attempt any TWO essays in about 200 words each : (2 * 10 = 20)

(a) Write an essay on Bacons prose style.

(b) How does Shakespeare immortalize his friend in his sonnets?

(c) Consider Faustus as a tragic hero

(d) Examine Every man in His Humour as a comedy of Humours.

 

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