B.A-B.A English ROMANTIC LITERATURE%28Alagappa University - Directorate of Distance Education-2012%29

DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Additional) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions given below each not exceeding 150 words.
1. Write a note on the historical novel.
2. Describe the setting gray has chosen for the poem.
3. How does Blake admire the creator of ‘‘The Tiger’’?
4. Write a note on the evolution of thought on ‘‘Ode on intimations of immortality’’.
5. How does Colerdige relate the supernatural to familiar experience in ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Marines’’?
6. Comment on Shelley’s use of images in ‘‘Ode to the West Wind’’.
7. What problems of women are brought into focus by Jana Austen in Emma.
8. Describe the circumstances leading to Olivia's disgrace.
SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR essay type questions give below in 400 words each.

9. Write an essay on romantic movement.

10. Write a critical appreciation of Burn’s ‘Highland Mary’.

11. Comment on Gray’s views on the life of the humble rustics.
12. Write a critical appreciation of Wordsworth's ‘‘Ode on Intimations of Immortality’’.
13. Sum up the philosophy of Keats in ‘‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’’.
14. What message does Shelley express in ‘‘Ode to the west wind’’?
15. Critically examine Jane Austen’s style and manners

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