LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
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FIRST SEMESTER – NOV 2006
EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 2OTH C
Date & Time : 26-10-2006/1.00-4.00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
- Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)
- She hobbles along anyway
And tightens her grip on your shirt
Who is she? What is her motive in doing so?
- A flaming bullet,
A flaming corpse,
Then a flaming eulogy,
Bring out the difference in the usage of the word ‘flaming’ in each line.
- I watched the flame feeding on my mother.
Why was the flame feeding on his mother?
- I cannot be spit up into a few sharply defined elements, as the intellect, the emotions and the will.
What cannot be split up into elements? Why?
- it’s true I write in English
dream in the language of Shakespeare n keats
but i am not an anglo my friend
How does the poet establish his identity here?
- “Flower- factions rang the strife in Psyche’s bower”
- i) Comment on the phrase Psycho’s bower.
- ii) What were the factions striving for?
- “Unread library books
Usually mature in two weeks
And begin to lay a row
Of little eggs in the ledgers ..”
- What does the passage reveal?
- “And the waves gently kissed the classic shore
of France or Italy, beneath the moon.”
1) What sense of the poet is pictured in the passage?
- “a changed mother
and more than
one annual ritual”
- What event made the mother changed?
- What was the ritual about?
- “Almost I can recall where I was born
The hot verandas where the charfferers drowse
Backyard dominion of the ragged thorn
And nameless servants in my father’s house”
- Appreciate the rhyme scheme.
PART – B
- Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
- Comment on the theme of God of small Things.
- Do you find any evolution in the character of Raju? Justify your stand with examples.
- How does Kushwant Singh present the immediate Post – Independence scene near the Indo-Pakistan border.
- Critically evaluate the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel.
- How does sharat chandra view Indian politics?
- Justify the title ‘Of Many Hundgers’ by Babani Battacharya.
- What are Mulk Raj Anand’s views on ”The Untouchables”?
- Consolidate the contribution of the Hindu forms of art to the rest of the world as
perceived by Anand K. Coomaraswamy.
- Enumerate the plethora of activities of Indians in the past listed by Sri. Aurobindo.
- ‘A Letter’ is an unlocking of the author in nostalgia – Elucidate.
PART – C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each: (2 x 15 = 30 marks)
- Write a critique of Radhakrishnan’s “The Hindu View of Life”.
- a) How does Tagore portray the conflict between Man and Nature in Mukta Dhara?
(OR)
- b) Critically review the Indian poetry in English with special reference to diction, theme,
style and figures of speech.
23.‘The Renaissance in India’ is nothing but a rebirth of the soul of India into a new body of
energy – Establish.
24.a) “Tuglag” is irony deeply tragic In the end Tuglag and his kingdom are one in chaos,
and he knows it” – Discuss.
(OR)
- b) Bring out the Indianness in A.K. Ramunujan’s poems prescribed for your study.
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