M.A-M.A English 2nd Sem Paper - 2.1 : English Literature from 1550 to 1832(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

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

ENGLISH

Paper - 2.1 : 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:

Significance of the extract. Imagery/Symbolism. Allusions.

Diction/Style.

Literary Background

Most musical of mourners, weep again!

Lament anew, Urania! He died,

Who was the Sire of an immortal strain,

Blind, old and lonely, when his country’s pride,

The priest, the slave and the liberticide,

Trampled and mock’d with many a loathed rite.

Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified,

Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite

Yet reigns o’er earth; the third among the sons of light.

For, that sad moment, when the Sylphs withdrew,

And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,

Umbriel, a dusky melancholy Spright,

As ever sully’d the fair face of Light,

Down to the Central Earth, his proper Scene,

Repairs to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.

Once again I see

These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines

Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms,

Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke

Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!

With some uncertain notice, as might seem

Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,

Or of some Hermit’s cave, where by his fire

The Hermit sits alone.

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,

A six years’ darling of a pigmy size!

See, where ‘mid work of his own hand he lies,

Fretted by sallies of his mother’s kisses,

With light upon him from his father’s eyes!

See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,

Some fragment from his dream of human life,

Shaped by himself with newly-learnèd art;

Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose,

Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix’d as those: Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends, Oft she rejects, but never once offends.

Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,

He hath awaken’d from the dream of life; ‘T is we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

With phantoms an unprofitable strife,

And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife

Invulnerable nothings. We decay

Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief

Convulse us and consume us day by day,

And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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

each:

a)       The Rape of the Lock as a burlesque.

b)       Shelley’s philosophy in Adonais.

c)       Imagery in Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

d)       Tintern Abbey as a typical romantic poem.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words:

a)       What The Way of the World proposes to present is the relation of man

to woman. Explain.

b)       Consider The Way of the World as a Restoration comedy.

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Q4) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words:

a)   Consider Pride and Prejudice as a piece of comic satire.

b) In what different ways do the minor characters play a major role in Pride

             and Prejudice? Explain.

Q5) a) Write short note on any one of the following in not more than 400

             words each:

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