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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 1800 – NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Date & Time : 25.04.2007/1.00-4.00 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Note : Answer Part A & B Separately
PART – A
I Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each: 4 x 3 = 12
- ‘Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges
When not in the niche others have left,
We fall’.
- Explain the cause for the ‘clash’.
- ‘They are the children of iron
They are the fearless bees of the night’.
- What poetic device is used here?
- ‘an haffi a fight
johncnow from sky
fi get food fi nyam’
- How do these lines picture the pathetic plight of these people?
- ‘Did I not, to announce the Harmattan,
Climb to the top of the silk-cotton tree,
Break the first pod, and scatter tasselled seeds
To the four winds – and this but yesterday?’
- Bring out the significance of these lines.
- ‘Sidi, my love will open your mind
Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when
The sun first touches it?
- Comment on the language of the speaker.
II Answer any TWO in 150 words each: 2 x 9 = 18
- How do the proverbs and the folk-tales enrich the narrative technique of Things Fall
Apart ?
- How do culture, society and topography influence the Caribbean Poetry?
- How do the East African writers view socialism and personal freedom?
III Answer any ONE in 300 words : 1 x 20 = 20
- What are the themes and concerns in studying African Literature? Give example.
- Discuss how Soyinka combines reform and criticism in his plays?
PART-B
- Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each: 4×3=12
- “There are differences
Of course: the lack of reliable charts;”
Establish the link between reliability and differences in these lines.
- “So consoling, we made disconsolate each other.”
Comment on the dynamics of love.
- “I found in ordinary love
the solitudes of poetry”
How is poetry compared with love?
- “The twisted tree is incandescent
with flowers”.
Explain the imagery in these lines.
- “The street has fallen asleep,”
Comment on the figure of speech in this line.
II.Answer any TWO in 150 words each: 2×9=18
- Consider V.S.Naipaul as a satirical novelist and social critic with reference to “A Wounded Civilization.”
- Comment on the tone of the poem “To a Visitor to Singapore.”
- Comment on the roles of the minor characters in SURFACING.
III. Answer any ONE in 300 words: 1×20=20
- Critically examine “Australia “ as a patriotic poem.
- Discuss SURFACING as a postmodern novel.
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