M.A-M.A English 1st Year MODERN LITERATURE III (Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)
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First Year
English
Paper V — MODERN LITERATURE — III
(1850 – 1950)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Question No. 1 in Unit I is compulsory.
Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and Two questions from Unit III.
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
13. Annotate FOUR of the following :
(a) Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
(b) My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole.
(c) To roar on the rockery stones And the groves were blue with sailors.
(d) Soon I mocked at all I heard
Though with cause indeed for fear.
(e) ...... As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youths
Entering the whirlpool
(f) They strap in doubt-by hiding it, robust-
And almost hear a meaning in their noise. (g) There is always danger, except in heaven. Oh, may Lord you have given me such
strength, such courage.
(h) The literary artist, therefore, will be well aware of physical science, science also
attaining, in its turn, its true literary ideal.
UNIT II
14. Critically comment on the theme of Ulysses.
15. Consider Andrea Del Sarto as a perfect monologue.
16. Bring out the picture of modern world and life in The Waste Land.
17. Consider St. Joan as a religious play.
18. Critically comment on the poem On the Move.
19. Bring out the views of Pater in Style.
UNIT III
20. Bring out the symbolism presented in the poems of W.B. Yeats prescribed for your study.
21. Write an essay on the art of characterisation in Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge.
22. Comment on the theme of the novel Sons and Lovers.
23. Consider To The Lighthouse as a novel with stream of consciousness technique.
24. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play.
25. Consider The Cocktail Party as a poetic drama.
26. Write short notes on FOUR of the following :
(a) Irish theatre
(b) Theme of My Last Duchess.
(c) Sources for The Waste Land.
(d) Miriam in Sons and Lovers.
(e) Theme of Gog
(f) Pessimism in Hardy
(g) Tennyson as a poet
(h) Theme of A Game of Chess.
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