LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
EL 5503 – CRITICAL THEORIES
Date : 20-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
- Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each.
Choose at least two from each section.
(5 X 8 = 40 Marks)
SECTION – A
- Explain the theory of metaphoric language.
- Merits of Shakespeare’s plays according to Dr. Johnson.
- Sidney’s views on Poetic creation.
- What, according to wordsworth, is the relationship between feeling and action?
SECTION – B
- Present Arnold’s estimate of wordsworth.
- Describe Arnold’s idea that ‘poetry is the criticism of life’.
- S. Eliot’s theory of ‘a consciousness of the past’.
- How can escape and its impossibility be simultaneous?
PART – B
- II) Answer the following in about 400 words each. (2 X 20 = 40 Marks
- a) Analyse Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare and isolate the major critical stand
points in them that are relevant to the analysis of a text.
(OR)
- What, according to wordsworth, is the origin of poetry? Comment.
- a) Explain the salient features of matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”.
(OR)
- b) What connection does T S Eliot draw between tradition and the individual talent?
PART – C
- Attempt a critical analysis of the following poem. (20 Marks)
The Kingfisher
It was the rainbow gave thee birth,
And left thee all her lovely hues;
And, as her mother’s name was Tears,
So runs it in my blood to choose
For haunts lonely pools, and keep
In company with trees that weep.
Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks;
On lawns as smooth as shining glass,
Let every feather show its marks;
Get thee on boughs and clap thy wings
Before the windows of proud kings
Nay, lovely bird, thou art not vain;
Thou hast no proud, ambitious mind;
I also love a quiet place.
That’s green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.
- H. Davies.
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