B.A-B.A English 4th Sem (S-4 : Introduction to Literary Criticism and Critical(University of Pune, Pune-2013)
T.Y. B.A. EXAMINATION, 2013
ENGLISH
Special Paper IV
(S-4 : Introduction to Literary Criticism and Critical
Appreciation)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :—
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1. (A) Attempt any two of the following in about 50 words each : [8]
(i) How do you define criticism ?
(ii) State briefly the qualifications of a good critic.
(iii) Comment on the theory of Imitation.
(B) Attempt any two of the following in about 50 words each : [8]
(i) How does sociological approach interpret literature ?
(ii) Discuss briefly the psychological approach to literature.
(iii) Explain how the biography of a writer helps understand his/her literary work.
P.T.O.[4301]-362 2
2. Attempt any two of the following in about 150 words each : [16]
(i) Comment on the influence of Aristotle’s views on Sidney’s defence of poetry.
(ii) What according to Sidney are the reasons for the superiority of poetry over other disciplines ?
(iii) Discuss Johnson’s defence of Shakespeare’s intermingling of the tragic and the comic.
(iv) How do you account for a disciplined neo-classicist like Johnson defending the violation of norms by Shakespeare ?
3. Attempt any two of the following in about 150 words each : [16]
(i) Why does Wordsworth insist on rustic language and incidents from common life in the writing of poetry ?
(ii) How do you explain Wordsworth’s definition of poetry ?
(iii) Comment on Arnold’s touchstone method of evaluating poetry.
(iv) What according to Eliot is ‘historical sense’ and why is it so important to a poet ?
4. Explain any four of the following literary and critical terms : [16]
(i) Simile
(ii) Metaphor
(iii) Imagery
(iv) Romanticism
(v) The Absurd
(vi) Modernism.[4301]-362 3 P.T.O.
5. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow (any eight) : [16]
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breasts;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree.
Questions :
(1) What is as lovely as a poem ?
(2) How does the growing tree worship God ?
(3) How do we know that the tree is a female ?
(4) What is the tree wearing in summer ?
(5) Why does the poet call himself a fool ?[4301]-362 4
(6) What is the difference between God and the poet ?
(7) Write any one of the figures of speech in the poem.
(8) Pick out the images that describe the tree in terms of a baby and a woman.
(9) Why does the poet compare his poem with the tree ?
(10) What is the rhyme scheme of the poem ?
(11) Suggest a suitable title to the poem
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