550 American Literature May 2003 (MA English)
8320 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
May 2003 (First Year)
(ENGLISH)
(Paper - 1)
550 American Literature (New Regulations)
Time 3 Hours
Maximum 100 Marks
Attempt FIVE questions in Section-A and THREE questions in Section-B
I. Annotate any FIVE of, the following passages choosing atleast TWO from each group.
GROUP - A (5x8 = 40)
1. (a) I am the doubter and the doubt And I the hymn the Brahmin signs
(b) Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later delicate death.
2. (a) We slowly drove, he knew no harte
And I had put away
My labour and my leisure too,
For his civility.
(b) "Stay where you are until our backs are turned"
3. (a) Fear always springs from Ignorance.
(b) Books are the best of things, well used abused,
among the worst. What is the right use ?
4. (a) For the reason, at least one half of the "Paradise Lost" is essentially prose - a succession of poetical excitements interspersed, inevitably with corresponding depressions
(b) I reached at once what I conceived the proper length for my intended poem a length of about one hundred lines.
5. (a) Yug White faced bum, yuh!
I’ll show yuh who's a ape!
(b) Far away in canado
Far across the sea
There is a loss who fondly waits
Making a home for me
6. (a) You're all flops. I am the Earth, Mother and you're all flops.
(b) Who's married to the presidents daughter, who is expected to be somebody.
II. Attempt the following in about 200 words
7. (a) Give a critical appreciation of the poem " Success is counted Sweetest".
(b) What does Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of the Jar tell us" ?
8. (a) What is the central message of Theoreau's "Where I lived and what I Lived for"' ?
(b) Laura's behaviour at the end of the play "The Glass Menagerie'!.
SECTION - B
III. Attempt any THREE of the following:
9. (a) Frost's poetry is a "stay against confusion". - Justify.
(OR)
(b) Do you find any enduring meaning in the poetry of E.E. Cummings and Wallace Stevens ?
10. (a) Elucidate Poe's "Philosophy of Composition".
(OR)
(b) " It is Henry James who has earned for the novel its perfect art - form". - Discuss.
11. (a) Comment on O'Neill's conception of tragedy and illustrate it from Hairy Ape.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on the themes and ideas on the play All My Solis.
12.(a) Bring out the puritan vision of Hawthorne is The Scarlet Letter.
(OR)
(b) Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.
13. (a) The central theme of the novel is "the encounter between innocence and experience". - Discuss.
(OR)
(b) Comment on the major theme of the novel, Billy Budd.
8320 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
May 2003 (First Year)
(ENGLISH)
(Paper - 1)
550 American Literature (New Regulations)
Time 3 Hours
Maximum 100 Marks
Attempt FIVE questions in Section-A and THREE questions in Section-B
I. Annotate any FIVE of, the following passages choosing atleast TWO from each group.
GROUP - A (5x8 = 40)
1. (a) I am the doubter and the doubt And I the hymn the Brahmin signs
(b) Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later delicate death.
2. (a) We slowly drove, he knew no harte
And I had put away
My labour and my leisure too,
For his civility.
(b) "Stay where you are until our backs are turned"
3. (a) Fear always springs from Ignorance.
(b) Books are the best of things, well used abused,
among the worst. What is the right use ?
4. (a) For the reason, at least one half of the "Paradise Lost" is essentially prose - a succession of poetical excitements interspersed, inevitably with corresponding depressions
(b) I reached at once what I conceived the proper length for my intended poem a length of about one hundred lines.
5. (a) Yug White faced bum, yuh!
I’ll show yuh who's a ape!
(b) Far away in canado
Far across the sea
There is a loss who fondly waits
Making a home for me
6. (a) You're all flops. I am the Earth, Mother and you're all flops.
(b) Who's married to the presidents daughter, who is expected to be somebody.
II. Attempt the following in about 200 words
7. (a) Give a critical appreciation of the poem " Success is counted Sweetest".
(b) What does Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of the Jar tell us" ?
8. (a) What is the central message of Theoreau's "Where I lived and what I Lived for"' ?
(b) Laura's behaviour at the end of the play "The Glass Menagerie'!.
SECTION - B
III. Attempt any THREE of the following:
9. (a) Frost's poetry is a "stay against confusion". - Justify.
(OR)
(b) Do you find any enduring meaning in the poetry of E.E. Cummings and Wallace Stevens ?
10. (a) Elucidate Poe's "Philosophy of Composition".
(OR)
(b) " It is Henry James who has earned for the novel its perfect art - form". - Discuss.
11. (a) Comment on O'Neill's conception of tragedy and illustrate it from Hairy Ape.
(OR)
(b) Write an essay on the themes and ideas on the play All My Solis.
12.(a) Bring out the puritan vision of Hawthorne is The Scarlet Letter.
(OR)
(b) Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.
13. (a) The central theme of the novel is "the encounter between innocence and experience". - Discuss.
(OR)
(b) Comment on the major theme of the novel, Billy Budd.