Alagappa University 2008 B.A American Literature - - Question Paper
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B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2008
V Semester ENGLISH VOCATIONAL American Literature Duration: 3 Hours (2004 Onwards) Maximum : 100 marks
Section-A (20x 1 = 20)
Answer any twenty of the following questions.
1. What is Raven ?
2. Why does Poe call December as bleak ?
3. Explain Plutonian Shore
4. How old are the tamed bullocks ?
5. How does the Ox charge at the tamer ?
6. Why does the speaker imagine that his horse thinks him strange ?
7. What do woods represent ?
8. What adventures do stanzas 3 and 4 in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley use?
9. How many Mauberley poems are there ?
10. What according to Stevens, was a small part of the pantomine ?
11. What was the only moving thing among twenty snowy mountains ?
12. Where has Winterboume lived most of his life ?
13. Who is the brother of Daisy Miller ?
14. How many members of the Usher family has survived from generation to generation;
15. Why does Roderick decide to bury his sister in the house ?
16. Why does the Barber who comes to shave Henry almost kill him ?
17. What is the name of the good natured doctor who agrees to operate on Henrys leg?
18. Where does Catherine accompany Henry before he leaves for the front?
19. Whom does the Younger family await a cheque from in A Rais in in the sun ?
20. When Walter finally us es some money to invest in a liquor store, what happens ?
21. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father ?
22. How much money does Charlie usually give Willy each week ?
23. On what day of the week does Willy die ?
24. Which place does Daisy love to visit ?
25. Who is Rodericks sister ?
SECTION - B (45 Marks)
(Detailed Texts)
2. Attempt an essay to a length of about 3 pages on ONE : (15)
a. How does the Raven come to be identified with the persons problems?
b. How does stopping by woods on a snowy evening examine the modem mans inability to stay in touch with nature ?
c. Contrastthe untamed bullocks with that ofthe tamed steers.
3. Write an essay on any one of the topics in 3 pages: (15)
a. Why does Stevens say, a man, a woman and a black bird are one?
b. Critically analyse the character of Winter Bourne.
c. Consider The fall of the house ofUsher as a Gothic tale.
4. Attempt an essay of around 3 pages on ONE topic of your selection: (15)
a. How does Willys retreat into the past, a form of escape from his unpleas ant pres ent reality ?
b. Why does Willy rej ect Charlies j ob offer ?
c. Critically evaluate Susan Sontags One Culture and the New Sensibility
SECTION-C (15 Marks)
(Non - Detailed texts)
5. Write a full-fledged es s ay (3 pages) on any ONE (15)
a. How does love affect the characters perceptions of war in ' A Farewell to Arms ?
b. How does the title A Raisin in the sun relate to the dream of each of the character ?
c. Why does Edmund Wilson say, All our intellectual activity is an attempt to give a meaning to our experience ?
SECTION-D
Read the following poem and answer the questions : The Tempter, all impassioned, thus began:
(20 Marks)
O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear; not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents, deemed however wise.
Queen of this universe! do not believe Those rigid threats of death: ye shall not die: How should you? by the fruit? it gives you life To knowledge; by the threatener? look on me, Me, who have touched and tasted; yet both live, And life more perfect have attained than Fate Meant me, by venturing higher than my lot.
Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass? and not praise Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain Of death denounced, whatever tiling death be, Deterred not from achieving what might lead To happier life, knowledge of good and evil;
Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil Be real, why not known, since easier shunned? God therefore cannothurtye, andbejust;
Not just, not God; not feared then, nor obeyed: Your fear itself of death removes the fear.
Why then was this forbid? Why, but to awe; Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant,
His worshippers? He knows that in the day Ye eat thereof, your eyes that seem so clear,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both good and evil, as they know.
That ye shall be as Gods, since I as Man,
Internal Man, is but proportion meet;
I, of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.
So ye shall die perhaps, by putting off Human, to put on Gods; death to be wished,
Though threatened, which no worse than this can bring.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences :
(5x2= 10 Marks)
1. Pick out the terms of praise from the lips of Satan
2. Why does Satan term the Warning as threat?
3. What evidence does Satan quote to Eve that she would not die after tasting the fruit ?
4. What is termed as petty tresspass by Satan ?
5. What phrase does S atan us e to prais e and convince Eve to commit the crime ?
Write an essay on the following question:
How does Milton present the temptation scene at the garden of Eden?
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