M.A-M.A English 2nd Year Paper - II : AMERICAN LITERATURE (Acharya Nagarjuna University - Center for Distance Education, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2013)

(DEG 22) 
M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DEC. - 2013 
Second Year 
English 
Paper - II : AMERICAN LITERATURE 

Time : 03 Hours                                                                                 Maximum Marks : 80 

1. Question No. 1 is compulsory 
2. Answer any Two questions from unit - II and Two from Unit - III 
3. All questions carry equal marks 

Unit - I 
1) Annotate any four of the following 
a) Low- hanging moon! 
What is that dusky shot in your brown yellow? 
O it is the shape, the shape of my mate! 
6 moon do not keep her from me any longer. 
b) O what shall I hang on the chamber walls? 
And what shall the pictures he that I hang on the walls? 
To adorn the burial-house of him I love? 
c) She withdrew shrinking from beneath his arm 
That restol on the bannister, and sot do down stairs 
And turned on him with knew a daunting look 
d) When I see the birches bend to left and right 
Across the lines of straighter darker trees, 
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them 
e) Inaction is cowardice, but there can 
he no scholar without the heroic mind. f) In fact, I believe each individual passes 
through all three. The boy is a greek; 
the youth, romantic; the adult , reflective 
g) When you write you’re coming, he’s all smiles, 
and talks about the future, and - hi’s just 
wonderful 
h) Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman 
is god to dream, boy. It comes with the 
territory 
Unit - II 
2) Discuss whitman as a symbolist poet from you study of his poems. 
3) Bring out the philosophy of Frost in Home Burial and Birches 
4) Examine Emerson’s The American Scholar as a study of American Renaissance 
5) Discuss willy Loman in Death of a Salesman as a tragic hero. 
6) Write a note on ‘The American Dream’. 
Unit - III 
7) Write a critical essay on the theme of death in Emily Dickenson. 
8) Examine Thorean’s Walden as a social document 
9) Discuss the significance of the title The Old Man and the Sea. 
10) Write a critically essay on the theme of The Ifairy Ape 
11) Bring out the imagery in poe’s ‘Th Raven’ 12) Write short notes on any Four of the following: 
a) The sage of Concord 
b) Symbolism in death of a salesman 
c) Theme of Moky Dick 
d) Homingway’s narrative technique 
e) Whiman as a universal host 
f) Frock’s use of imagery 
g) Theme of The Assistant 
h) Plastic Theatre