B.A-B.A English Special 4th Sem AGE OF TENNYSON AND MODERN AGE(Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu-2011)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2011
Fourth Semester
English Vocational
AGE OF TENNYSON AND MODERN AGE
(Non-CBCS—2004 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Part A (10 × 1 = 10)
Answer any ten questions.
1. What does the speaker say has happened to the “sea of faith” in the poem “Sover Beach”?
2. What complain does the Duke make about his first wife in “My Last Duchess”?
3. To what does Hopkins compare the thrush’s eggs in “spring”?
4. Why does Yeats mention Timon and Lear in “An Acre of Grass”?
5. In which season and time of year is the poem “The Darkling Thrush” set?
6. How many horses does the speaker see in “The Horses”?
7. What is compared to an etherized patient in “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
8. What is the main principle of Mr. Gradgrin’s philosophy in Hard Times?
9. Where does Louisa flee after Harthouse’s declaration of love in Hard Times?
10. Why does Tom break off his relationship with Bob Jakin in The Mill on the Floss?
11. What feature of Maggie’s draws Philip to her in The mill on the Floss?
12. What does Eliza intend to do for her livelihood in Pygmalion?
13. Why is Doolittle dressed in a splendid fashion in the concluding act of Pygmalion?
14. How are the three priests in Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral?
15. What, according to Newman, is literature?
Part B (4 × 5 = 20)
Answer four of the following in about 120 words choosing two from each section
Section A
16. Analyse the tone of the poem “Charge of the Light Brigade”.
17. Summarise what Hardy says in the concluding part of the poem “The Darkling Thrush”.
18. Discuss Prufrock’s fear of death.
19. Give an account of the graphic description of natural scene in “The Horses”.
Section B
20. Comment on role of the circus people in Hard Times.
21. What picture of child life do you get in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss?
22. How is Pickering’s bet with Higgins resolved in Pygmalion?
Part C (3 × 10 = 30)
Answer any three of the following in about 250 words each without omitting any section
Section A
23. Comment on the note of despair in “Dover Beach”.
24. Discuss Yeats’ description of old age in “An Acre of Grass”.
Section B
25. How far is Hard Times a social novel?
26. Examine the tragic flaw of Maggie in The Mill on the Floss?
27. Comment on the appropriateness of the title Pygmalion.
Part D (2 × 5 = 30)
Answer two of the following in about 450 words each choosing one from each section
Section A
28. How does Eliot employ irony and satire in “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
29. Analyse the Character of Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.
Section B
30. Examine the theme of martyrdom in Murder in the Cathedral.
31. Consider “My Last Duchess” a dramatic monologue.
Part E (5 × 2 = 10)
32. Read the following passage and answer the questions.
The sea is calm tonight
The tide is full, the moon lies fair upon the straits on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay
Come to the window, sweet is the night air.
(a) Whom does the speak ask to come to the window?
(b) From where does light come?
(c) How does the cliff stand?
(d) What is the nature of the night air?
(e) What does the speaker mean by “sea”?

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