LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
I SEMESTER – NOV. 2004
EL 1801 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Date : 27.10.04 Max : 100 marks
Duration : 9 – 12 noon Hours : 3 hrs
- Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines.
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
- An unexpected November
shut the door in my face:
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call
Him not by any name, he is every man
- Things come in every day
to lose themselves among other things
lost long ago among
other things lost long ago
- O Master of the Birds, grant sanctuary and shelter
Also to a homing bird that bears a broken wing
- The old man from the East murmurs to himself: “I have seen!”
- Mine is no ordinary appetite.
- A link based on a need. The need ended. the link snapped.
- If I hadn’t tasted the fruit of knowledge
I could have gone on living in this paradise
of your blessed society of rules. Now I can
only batter my head against the wall.
- Communists get quick results because when you
adopt the means of annihilating men, they do
not remain to oppose you.
- All talk of national integration has so far proved to be an exercise in futility
- Answer five of the following in about 150-200 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- Narrate the peculiar experiences that Kamala Das encountered in those early formative years of her life
- How does Sarojini Naidu view the evanescence of youth and beauty in ‘The Purdah Nashin’
- What is the grouse that Parthasarathy has against his fellow poets?
- Identify the major conflict found in the poem ‘The Night of the Scorpion’.
- Symbolism in Sakharam, the Binder
- Evan Indrajit is the best example of experimental theatre
- Mulk Raj Anand speaks through Bakha, the chief character of The Untoucheable:
III. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words: (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
- Illustrate how Parthasarathy and Ramanujar deal with the subject of Indian culture and tradition.
- Vijay Tendulkar’s preoccupation with the middle class problems pervade the play Sakharam, the Binder
- Is there a solution to the problem of Untouchability in the novel The Untouchable.?
- Depict the picture of India and Indian culture from the two prose pieces prescribed for study.
- Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words. (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
- Discuss Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ as a poem that embraces the past, the present and the future.
- Bring out the symbolic, spiritual and mystical nature of Aurobindo’s ‘ ‘Rose of God’.
- K. Narayan is the best among the Indian English novelists. Explain through the novel ‘The Financial Expert.’
- “Voices in the city” echoes the modern generation.
- Kamala Markandaya expresses the powerful reality of poverty through ‘A Handful of Rice.’
- ‘Train to Pakistan’ is a positive novel.
- Describe the features of Indian Writing in English citing examples from the texts you have studied.
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