M.A-M.A English 1st Sem Paper - 1.1 : English Literature (University of Pune, Pune-2013)
M.A. (Part - I) (Semester - I)
ENGLISH
Paper - 1.1 : English Literature from 1550 to 1832
(2008 Pattern)
Time : 3 Hours] [Max. Marks : 80
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) All questions carry equal marks.
Q1) Explain any four with reference to the context in the light of some of the following points:
a) Significance of the extract.
b) Imagery/Symbolism.
c) Allusions.
d) Diction/Style.
e) Literary Background.
i) Alas! what boots it with incessant care
To tend the homely, slighted shepherd’s trade.
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?
Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair?
ii) When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied”? I fondly ask.
P.T.O.
iii) Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
iv)To our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal’d may look;
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still mark us, he shall see
Small change, when we’are to bodies gone.
If thou find’st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet; Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.
v) Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheekes,
And the pure snow, with goodly vermill stayne
Like crimsin dyde in grayne:
That even th’Angels, which continually
About the sacred Altare doe remaine, Forget their service and about her fly,
Ofte peeping in her face, that seems more fayre, The more they on it stare.
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Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words
each:
a) Pastoral Elements in Lycidas.
b) Epithalmion as a marriage song.
c) Death Be Not Proud as a Holy Sonnet.
d) Cynicism in Goe and Catche a Falling Star.
Q3) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words:
a) Iago is the spirit of evil “acting through simple hatred of good and delight
in causing pain”. Discuss.
b) Consider Othello as a typical Shakespearean tragedy.
Q4) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words:
a) The Vicar of Wakefield is a description of Low or Middle class with
its follies Illustrate.
b) Comment upon the role of Dr. Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield.
Q5) a) Write short note on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each:
i) The role of Roderigo in Othello. ii) The Temptation scene in Othello.
b) Write short note on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each:
i) Coincidences in The Vicar of Wakefield.
ii) Female characters in The Vicar of Wakefield.
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| Earning: ₹ 7.05/- |
