LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 5501 – CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 27-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer the following questions in about 30 words each:                                (10×2=20 marks)

 

1. Terrifying are the attend sleek thrushes on the lawn,

More coiled steel than living

Explain the above lines.

 

2. On motorcycles, up the road, they come:

Small, black, as flies hanging in the heat

capture the restlessness of the motorcycle riders.

 

3. And girls in slack remember Dad.

Comment on the tone of the poem.

 

4. He watches the hearts of things

And does not move or speak.

Explain the context in which Geoffrey Hill utters these words.

 

5. Death is the least we have to fear.

Bring out the irony in this line.

 

6. The superiority of one race to another is hardly ever believed in for any good reason.

Write down Russell’s opinion about racial superiority.

 

7. Man’s knowledge of god is due to god himself.

Explain this statement of Barclay.

 

8. “I’ve had dinner with the best”.

What light does this line throw on the character of Davies?

 

9. The world at the present day stands in need of two kinds of things.

What, according to Russell, are the too things the world requires at present?

 

10. All afternoon through the tall heat that slept

For miles inland,

A slow and topping curve southwards we kept.

Explain the context.

 

PART – B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in 150 words each:                                       (5×8=40 marks)

 

11. Attempt a critical appreciation of Ted Hughe’s “The Jaguar”.

 

12. Critically analyse Peter Porter’s “your Attention Please”.

 

13. Consider “Old Woman” a typical Elizabeth Jennings poem.

 

14. What, according to Russelll, are the ideas that have harmed mankind?

 

15. What is Barclay’s justification for his belief in God?

 

16. Comment on the title of Pinter’s drama “The Care Taker”.

 

17. Write short notes on the symposium in Iris Mardah’s “The Bell”.

 

18. Write short notes on the setting of “Lord of the flies”.

 

PART – C

 

 Answer the following in about 300 words each:                                          (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

19. Write an essay on 20^th century poetry with special reference to the poems prescribed.

(OR)

20. Consider Pinter’s “The Care Taker” an absurd drama.

 

21. What does Russell advocate for a better world?

(OR)

22. Bring out the allegory in “Lord of the Flies”.

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