M.A-M.A English 1st Sem Paper - 1.2 : English Literature from 1832 to 1980(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

M.A. (Part - I) (Semester - I)

ENGLISH

Paper - 1.2 : English Literature from 1832 to 1980

(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.

By this still hearth, among these barren crags Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws into a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Only reapers, reaping early

I'mamong the bearded barley,

Hear a song that echoes cheerly

From the river winding clearly

Down to tower’d Camelot:

And by the moon the reaper weary

Piling sheaves in uplands airy, Listening.

P.T.O.

She shut the cold out and the storm,

And kneeled and made the cheerless grate

Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;

Which done, she rose, and from her form

Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,

And laid her soiled gloves by, untied

Her hat and let the damp hair fall,

And, last, she sat down by my side And called me.

How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

Sir, ‘t was not

Her husband’s presence only, called that spot

Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek: perhaps

Fra Pandolf chanced to say ‘Her mantle laps

Over my lady’s wrist too much’, or ‘Paint

Must never hope to reproduce the faint

Half-flush that dies along her throat:’ such stuff

Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy.

There is sweet music here that softer falls.

Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls

Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;

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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes;

Music that brings sweet sleep down from the

Blissful skies.

Here are cool mosses deep,

And thro’ the mosses ivies creep,

And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,

And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words

each:

a)       ‘Ulysses’ as a man of action turned into philosopher,

b)       A portrait of faithless Duchess in ‘My Last Duchess’.

c)       The element of terror in ‘The Second Coming’.

d)       ‘The lady of Shalott’ as the poem about human life’.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words:

a)       Draw a character-sketch of Prof Henry Higgins.

b)       Discuss ‘Pygmalion’ as the mingling of the legend of Pygmalion and

fairy tale of Cindrella.

Q4) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words:

a)       The theme of A Passage to India’ is “the chasm between the world of

action and world of being”. Discuss.

b)       How does Forster explore the general issue of Britain’s political control

of India in ‘A Passage to India’?

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