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B.A. DEGREE exam —
JUNE, 2009.
(AY 2003–04 to CY 2004 batches only)
Third Year
English
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Time : three hours Maximum marks : 75
I. Annotate any 5 of the subsequent : (5 x three = 15)
1. He slays not nor is slain.
2. It is a few dream that on the deck
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
3. The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
4. Earth’s the right place for love :
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
5. But in subjects so handled, however, skillfully or with however vividan array of incident there is always a certain hardness or nakedness which repels the artificial eye.
6. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real estate broken by my friends.
7. I was dying everyday and you were killing my boys, and you did it for me?
8. A man can’t be a Jesus in the world.
II. Write short essays on any 3 of the
subsequent : (3 x 10 = 30)
9. What qualities of a romantic author do you obtain in Poe’s ‘‘Philosophy of Composition’’?
10. Why did Thoreau go to the Woods?
11. What, according to Emerson, are the probable impacts on the scholar?
12. Write an application of Emerson’s ‘‘Brahma’’.
13. Consider E.A. Poe as a creative poet with reference to ‘‘The Raven’’.
14. Write an essay on portraiture in Cumming’s ‘‘The Cambridge Ladies.’’
III. Write short essays on any 2 of the subsequent :
(2 x 10 = 20)
15. Consider Billy Budd as Melville’s version of tragedy.
16. Discuss The Glass Menagerie as a memory play.
17. O’Neill’s Emperor Jones as an expressionistic play.
18. Discuss the relationship ranging from the love story and war scenes in A Farewell to Arms.
IV. Write an essay on any 1 of the subsequent :
(1 x 10 = 10)
19. All My Sons is a typical tragedy of modern times. Substantiate.
20. Write an essay on the autobiographical element in The Glass Menagerie.
21. What estimate do you form of Ezra Pound as a prose writer?
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