LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 2803 – 20th 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
- Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England.
- Courage was mine, and I had mystery,
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;
- Listen! Do you not hear
Them? the singing?
- Listen! Can you not hear the entrance of a new theme?
- He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours”.
- And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life.
- I should be glad of another death.
- The panderers and liars have violated and smutted it.
yet this reaching is alive yet
for lights and keepsakes.
- The morning backons
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
- 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
- Comment on the philosophy of Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
- What makes ‘ Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
- How does C. Day Lewis bring out the music of England in ‘You that love England’?
- Why does Archibald MacLeish call science a saint? Explain.
- How does Auden illustrate the contradictory purposes of Time and Love?
- Discuss “The people, yes” as the great affirmation of faith in democracy.
- Critically analyse the confessional element portrayed in Sylvia Plath’s “Death & Co”.
- 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:
- Critically evaluate the theme and content of The Waste Land.
- Attempt an ecopoetical evaluation of ‘A Unison’, ‘Pike’ and ‘To the Snake’.
- Consider any six major themes of British poetry with suitable examples.
- How does eliot present Life and Death as being one concept in his poem ‘Journey of the Magi’?
- Discuss the psychological overtone in ‘Snake’ by D.H. Lawrence.
- 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.