LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012
EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I
Date : 08/11/2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
- Comment on the significance of any FOUR of the following: (4 x 5 = 20 marks)
- And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love
Made one another’s hermitage;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
- The better angel is a man right fair
The worse spirit a woman coloured il l.
- Wake now my love, awake; for it is time
The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed
All ready to her silver coche to clime.
- Single men, though they may be many times more
charitable, because their means are less exhaust,
yet, on the other side they are more cruel and
hard hearted because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
- Unlike to mankind’s mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably
Intertwisted, and not be unravelled without hazard, he is – good throughout.
- Sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
“Amen” three or four times to the same prayer.
- Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- For Militon, Lycidas was more than just a pastoral elegy as he used it for his own
personal grievances”- Explain
- What efforts does the bride groom take to prove his passionate love for his bride
throughout the poem Epithalamion?
- Analsye the exaggeration in all the stanzas of The Canonisation by John Donne.
- Evaluate Wordsworth as the worshipper of nature from the point of his poem Tintern
Abbey.
- Critically estimate Bacon’s views on Marriage and single life.
- Discuss Newman’s idea of knowledge.
- Critically analyse the theme of sacrifice in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.
- Evaluate Sir Roger’s character in Sir Roger at church.
III. Write any TWO of the following in about 300 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 marks)
- Bring out the hero, the villain and the victim in Dr Faustus.
- Justify Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a farce and comedy of manners.
- Critically analyse the working of fate and chance in the life of Tess.
- The theme of ‘Emma’ is about the heroine’s painful understanding of the truth
about herself – Discuss.
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