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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2803 – 20^th CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH & AMERICAN)

 

 

 

Date & Time : 17.04.2007/1.00-4.00   Dept. No.                                                                        Max. 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

I. Interpret the following in 50 words each:                                                                        10 x 2 = 20

 

1. Stilled legendary depth:

It was as deep as England.

 

1. Courage was mine, and I had mystery,

Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;

 

1.  Listen! Do you not hear

Them?  the singing?

 

1. Listen! Can you not hear the entrance of a new theme?

 

1. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours”.

 

1. And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life.

 

1. I should be glad of another death.

 

1. The panderers and liars have violated and smutted it.

yet this reaching is alive yet

for lights and keepsakes.

 

1. The morning backons

With water praying and call of seagull and rook

 

1. O let not Time deceive you,

You cannot conquer Time.

 

PART – B

 

II. Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following:                           5 x 8 = 40

 

1. Comment on the philosophy of Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
2. What makes ‘ Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
3. How does C. Day Lewis bring out the music of England in ‘You that love England’?
4. Why does Archibald MacLeish call science a saint?  Explain.
5. How does Auden illustrate the contradictory purposes of Time and Love?
6. Discuss “The people, yes” as the great affirmation of faith in democracy.
7. Critically analyse the confessional element portrayed in Sylvia Plath’s “Death & Co”.
8. How does Dylan Thomas present the embodiment of the past and the present?

 

PART – C                                                      4 x 10 = 40

 

III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words each:

 

1. Critically evaluate the theme and content of The Waste Land.
2. Attempt an ecopoetical evaluation of ‘A Unison’, ‘Pike’ and ‘To the Snake’.
3. Consider any six major themes of British poetry with suitable examples.
4. How does eliot present Life and Death as being one concept in his poem ‘Journey of the Magi’?
5. Discuss the psychological overtone in ‘Snake’ by D.H. Lawrence.
6. Attempt a study of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath’s poetry from the point of view of the poet’s self and frustrations of the psyche.

 

 

 

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 2803 – 20TH CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)

 

 

Date : 17-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

1. Interpret the following lines: 10 x 2 = 20 marks

 

1.                       Listen! Do you not hear

them?  the singing?

2. Stilled legendary depth:

It was as deep as England.

3. You shall be leaders when zero hour is signalled,

Wielders of power and welders of a new world.

4. He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
5. And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,

By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

6. And then our fights: we’ve fought together
   Compact, unanimous;
7. And there could I marvel my birthday

Away but the weather turned around. And the true

Joy of the long dead child sang burning

In the sun.

8. Vaguely life leaks away,

And time will have his fancy.

9. The people is a tragic and comic two face: hero and hoodlum:

phantom and gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth.

10. Here is the understanding not to love
    Our neighbor, or tomorrow that will sieve
    Our resolutions.

 

1. Answer any five of the following : 5 x 8 = 40 marks
2. How does Archibald MacLeish relate science and faith?
3. Comment on Roethke’s ideas on eternity and time as seen in, ‘I Knew a Woman.’
4. Critically analyze the fertility myth in The Waste Land.
5. What prompts Yeats to anticipate the Second Coming?
6. How does Carl Sandburg demonstrate that the power lies with the common man in his poem ‘The

People,Yes’?

 

 

16. Comment on the symbolism in the poem ‘Journey of the Magi’ by T.S.Eliot.
17. Comment on the conflict between the ‘voice of education’ and man’s natural instinct as reflected in

D.H.Lawrence’s ‘The Snake’.

18. Discuss the theme of the poem ‘Ballad of the Goodley Fere’.

 

III. Answer any four of the following in detail:                                                               4 x 10 = 40 marks

 

19. Does the Twentieth Century Poetry approve of warfare? Give your answer with suitable examples

and quotes.

20. Compare the music of ‘Unison’ with that of ‘You that love England.’
21. Consider  the eco-friendly  aspects in ‘A Unison,’  ‘To the Snake’ and ‘Pike.’
22. Show how W.H.Auden’s poem ‘As I walked out one evening’ offer a realistic view of life and love.
23. Explain the imagery and the choice of diction in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Death and Co.’
24. Write a critical appreciation of T.S.Eliot’s ‘ Journey of the Magi’.

 

 

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