LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION – GENERAL ENGLISH
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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009
EL 1058 – ENGLISH THRO LITERATURE – I
Date & Time: 02/05/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION – A
I Answer any TEN of the following in about 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30)
- Why does Jonson call Shakespeare the ‘Soul of the Age’?
- Why does Jonson not compare Shakespeare with his peers?
- Why is the pleasure-dome a strange invention in Kubla Khan?
- Comment on the opening lines of the poem Dover Beach.
- Who are the ‘assorted characters’ of ‘death andblight’ in Frost’s Design?
- What is India’s gift to the world?
- What impression do you form of the child’s father in Night of the Scorpion?
- What does the true bore think of himself?
- What are a bore’s favourite topics?
- What is, according to Shaw, natural slavery?
- How do laws of the land protect the citizens?
- Why are the peasants compared to ‘swarms of flies’?
SECTION – B
II Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each: (5 x 6 = 30)
- How does Jonson pay rich tribute to Shakespeare in his poem On Shakespeare?
- Describe the landscape of Kubla Khan’s pleasure-dome.
- What is, according to the poet, the ‘design of darkness’?
- How does Sarojini Naidu describe the supreme sacrifices made by Indian soldiers
during the First World War?
- Describe the various kinds of bores.
- What are Shaw’s views on working hours and retirement?
- How is vocational education useful?
- Which subjects are grouped under humanities? Why?
SECTION – C
III Answer the following in about 300 words each: (3 x 10 = 30)
- a) What solution does Arnold prescribe to mitigate the sufferings of this dark world? Do you agree
with the poet? Justify your answer.
(OR)
- b) How is the poem Night of the Scorpion a true expression of Indian sensibility? Discuss.
- a) Suggest some remedies to save oneself from bores.
(OR)
- b) Write a summary of Shaw’s views on Freedom.
- a) How did Sindhu finally succeed in winning the landlord’s daughter in The Three Dancing
Goats? Explain.
(OR)
- b) Describe the manner in which the Mathematics Master traps Wasserkopf.
- 24. Complete the following passage by filling in the blanks with suitable articles and
prepositions. (10 x 1 = 10)
Tom appeared —1— the side walk with —2— bucket of whitewash and —3— long-handled brush. He surveyed —4—fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled —-5—- upon his spirit. Thirty yards of Board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but —-6— burden. Sighing he dipped his brush and passed it —-7—– the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared —–8— insignificant whitewashed streak —-9—- the far-reaching continuent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down —10—- a tree-box discouraged.
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