University of Mumbai 2008 B.A S.Y.ember - English II Old - Question Paper
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HJ-7468
pra -oct -54
Con. 190(a)-08.
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(REVISED COURSE)
(3 Hours) [ Total Marks : 100
N.B, : (1) Attempt all questions.
(2) All questions carry equal marks.
1. (a) Write critical appreciation of any two poems from the each type of poems such as 20
Lyrics, Dramatic Monologue.
Or
(b) Write critical appreciation of any two poems from each type of poems such as Dramatic monologue and Ode.
Or
(c) Write critical appreciation of any two of the following
(i) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
(ii) Feeding the Poor at Christmas by Eunice De'Souza
(iii) Ode to west wind by P.-B. Shelley
(iv) Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
2. (a) Scansion the following two stanzas 10
(i) I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high over vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
(ii) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and little words had sunk.
(b) Write note on any one of the following 10
(i) Ballad
(ii) Narrative Poetry
(iii) Modern Free Verse
3. (a) Compare and contrast the satires you have studied. 20
Or
(b) Write a detailed note on any two Sonnets you have studied.
Or
(c) Write notes on any two of the following elegies
(i) Break Break Break (Tennyson)
(ii) O Captain ! My Captain I (Walt Whitman)
(iii) Elegy for Margaret (Stephen Spender)
(iv) A Refusal to Mourn Death (Dylan Thomas)
(v) On the Death of W.B. Yeats (W. H. Auden)
4. Explain with reference to the context the following four passages : 20
(a) "By the grace of God he says
We've had seven children in seven years.
We're one Big Happy Family God Always Provides
(b) Not marble, nor the guided monument Of princes shall out-live this powerful rime.
But you shall shine more bright in these contents.
Than unswept stone, besmeerd with sluttish time.
(c) A sudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead
(d) Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O seal And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
5. (a) Write a detailednote on any two lyric poems you have studied. 20
Or
(b) Identify the voice of the speaker in any two of dramatic monologue poems you have studied.
Or
(c) Write short notes on any two of the following
(i) Ode on Solitude
(ii) Ode to Evening
(iii) Ode to Autumn
(iv) Ode on a Gracian Urn
(v) Ode to the West Wind
(vi) Kind of an Ode to duty
(vii) Ode to Clothes
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