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

(DEG 23) 
M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DEC. - 2013 
Second Year 
English 
Paper -III : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE 

Time : 03 Hours                                                                                 Maximum Marks : 80 

Question No. I is compulsory 
Answer any two questions each from Unit - II and Unit - III. 
All questions carry equal marks. 

Unit - I 
1) Annotate any Four of the following. 
a) With one sweet song that seems to have no close, 
sung darkling from our tree, while men repose. 
b) Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. 
Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind 
Box the gold-red seeking of feet that trod 
Space and Time’s mute vanishing ends. 
c) Deprived of common needs like soap, 
Some were broken, some merely bent. 
d) The new poets still quoted 
the old poets, but no one spoke 
in verse 
e) Crocodiles move into deeper waters, 
Morning of heated. 
Smoke under the sun. 
f) Just hear what the fool says: “ Any street will lead you there!” where them, 
would be the sense of having so many streets? 
g) Who could be a higher authority, than yourself? 
h) Live in the mind of our earth hood; O golden Mystery, flower Unit - II 
2) How does Toru Dutt succeed in bringing India into her poems sita and our casurina 
tree? 
3) Write an essay on Thought, the paraclete as a mystic poem. 
4) Consider Nissim Ezekiel’s poem Enterprise as an allegory 
5) “A.K. Ramanujan in his poetry is a modernist” Discuss 
6) Comment on the local color in the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra. 
7) Write an essay on Tagore’s craftmanship in his plays. 
Unit - III 
8) Write an essay on the philosophy in Tagore’s Gitanjali 
9) Comment on the powerful language used by Sri Aurobindo in the The symbol Dawn 
10) Discuss on the plot and technique in kannad’s Hayavadana 
11) Bring out the significance of the title On the Ganga Ghat by Raja Rao 
12) Bring out the Theme of Oppression, Suppression and self determination in Anita 
Desai’s Fire on the Mountain 
13) Write short notes on any four of the following 
a) Indian myths 
b) Jay’s Quest for self in Such a Long silence 
c) Central theme of Night of the scorpion 
d) Themes of Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry 
e) ‘Malgudi’ in Narayan’s novel 
f) Technique in Arun Joshi’s The last labyrinth 
g) Feminism 
h) What is Ambedkar’s contribution to our constitution