M.A-M.A English 2nd Sem Paper - 4.5 : Poetry - II(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

                    M.A. (Part - II)

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                               Paper - 4.5 : Poetry - II

                  (Optional) (Semester - IV) (2008 Pattern)

Time : 3 Hours]                                                                                               [Max. Marks : 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1) All questions are compulsory.

2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1) a)      Explain with reference to context any two of the following:          [8]

When, finally, we reached the place, We hardly knew why we were there,

The trip had darkened every face,

Our deeds were neither great nor rare,

Home is where we have to gather grace.

This is what I am

Empty sockets despairing of possessing life

A mouth torn open in an anguished wound

Huge hands outspread

And raised in imprecation and in threat

A body tattooed with wounds seen and unseen

We, of the morning, but behold

The dawn afar thine eyes shall see

The full and perfect day unfold,-

The full and perfect day to be,

When Justice shall return as lovely as of old.

P.T.O.

iv)      Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed

In memory now by every ulcerous crime.

The world’s green age then was a rotting lime.

b)       Analyse the poetic devices used in any ONE of the following passages

and comment on the diction, style and tone of the extract:             [8]

Here

like the unreal stirrings

of incense smoke in a darkened shrine

like the languid movements of mangled lepers

around a temple of the goddess Chandi at dawn

like a wounded whale drifting away

sadly in unknown seas

like the dark winds of Asia

which murmur joylessly in slums but do not answer

they wander, these lost children of America,

That Puritan grimace

to begin with-

death in the heart and in the loins

where poetry takes birth

and breath

a gaping emptiness under layer on layer

of tenuous talent, brash

gestures, a spreading taste for the macabre.

Q2) Answer any ONE of the following in about 800 words:                          [16]

a) Discuss fully the modernistic elements in Jayant Mahapatra’s poem, “The

Lost Children of America”.

b)       Consider Syed Amanuddin’s poem, “Don’t call me Indo - Anglian” as a

defence of Indian English writers.

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Q3) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:                                     [16]

The sense of nostalgia in “My Grandmother’s House”. The Indian elements in Ramanujan’s, “Obituary”.

The tone of Gopal Honnalgere’s poem, “Of Crows”.

The persona’s sense of alienation in “Naryal Purnima”.

The analogy between the human mother and the metaphorical one in

Daruwala’s poem, “Mother”.

The journey motif in Ezekiel’s poem, “Enterprise”.

Q4) Answer any ONE of the following in about 800 words:                          [16]

Do you think the celebration of blackness and exploitation in African

poetry could become a self - defeatist exercise? Justify your answer with reference to the poems you have studied.

Discuss how Kishwar Naheed’s poem, “I am not that Woman” challenges

patriarchy, as well as the pseudo-feminists of the world.

Q5) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:                                     [16]

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