B.A-B.A English VICTORIAN LITERATURE(Alagappa University - Directorate of Distance Education-2012)

DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English) / B.A. (English) (Additional) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
VICTORIAN 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. How is the relationship between the speaker of the poem, ‘‘Andrea Del Sarto’’ and his wife?
2. Trace the social conditions of the victorian age.
3. Why does T.S. Eliot support traditional approach to literature?
4. Comment on the features of social realism found in Great Expectation.
5. Explain Arnold’s touch stone method.
6. How does Professor Higgins change Eliza Doolittle?
7. Who is called scholar Gypsy? Why?

8. Prove that Hardy is a fatalist by giving special reference to Tess of the D‘urbervilles.

SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR essay type questions given below in 400 words each.
9. How was English literature during the Victorian age?
10. How does W.B. Yeats symbolize the journey of the soul in ‘‘sailing to Byzantium’’?
11. Write an appreciation of ‘‘The Waste Land’’.
12. How does Arnold criticize poetry in his ‘‘The study of poetry’’?
13. Justify the title Great Expectation.
14. Trace the elements of modernism found in Murder in the Cathedral.
15. Show that shaw is an antiromanist by giving reference to his work Pygmalion.
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