Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 American Literature Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2800/LE 822 AMERICAN LITERATURE

Date        : 02.04.04                                                                                                                  Max     : 100 marks

Duration :1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                  Hours  : 3 hrs

Section A

 

  1. Answer the following questions in about 50 words (10×2 = 20 marks)

 

  1. He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible word
  2. Who is the man referred to in this passage?
  1. Why does Emerson admire him?

 

  1. The time is infected with Hamlet’s unhappiness

Sicklied o’er with Hamlet’s unhappiness.

  1. What is Hamlet’s unhappiness?
  2. How does Emerson connect it with the problem of his society?

 

  1. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in otherman’s transcripts of their reading.
  2. Explain the Context
  3. Is there any contradiction in the idea presented here by the author? Explain?

 

  1. Don’t use such an expression as “Dim lands of peace”, It “Dulls the Image”

What is Pound’s criticism about the expression used here? Explain.

 

  1. Be influenced by as many great artists as you can

What difference do you find, regarding the idea of influence between Pound and Emerson?

 

  1. Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference
  2. What is the choice implied in these lines?
  3. Explain the Universal significance of these lines?

 

  1. The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality
    • Explain the link between death and immortality in these lines

 

  1. Shine! Shine! Shine!

Pour down your warmth, great Sun!

While we bask, we two together

  • Explain the Universality in these lines

 

  1. I’se Emperor yit, ain’t I?

And de Emperor Jones leaves de way he comes and dat black trash don’t dare stop him-not yit, least ways.

  • Explain the agony of Emperor Jones and his arrogance.

 

  1. Astrological sign. I bet you were born under Aries …. They dote in noise
  • What were the feelings of Blanche expressed in these lines

 

 

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Section B

 

PART – A

 

  1. Answer any four of the following in about 200 words each, choosing two from each part: (4×10 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Discuss with appropriate examples the elements of horror and mystery found in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

 

  1. How does Hawthorne propound his puritanical principles in his short story “ The Birth mark”?

 

  1. “Thoreau’s main task in Civil Disobedience is to assert the freedom of the American citizen”. Do you think Thoreau succeeds in his effort? Justify your answer.

 

  1. The aim of reality seems to me to be the Supreme virtue of a novel- The merit on which all its other merits helplessly and submissively depend”- Do you think Henry James justifies this statement quite consistently in his essay The Art of Fiction? Discuss

 

PART – B

 

  1. Eugene O’Neill is an expressionist. Illustrate the same from his plays especially with regard to his symbolism and dramatic techniques

 

  1. Anne Bradstreet is a poetess of the ordinary. Explain this statement with illustrations from her poems.

 

  1. ‘Chicago’ is a typical American poem. Comment on this criticism of the poem.

 

  1. “Emily Dickinson is a poetess of interiority and deeper questions of life and death in Because I could not Stop for Death and The Soul selects her own society”. Discuss

 

Section C

 

  • Answer the following in about 500 words each                                                         (2×20=40 marks)

 

  1. What according to Emerson are the three influences that play a vital role in the making of a scholar? Discuss Or
  2. Consider Steinberk’s “ Of Mice and Men” as a social novel

 

  1. Compare and Contrast The Glass Menagerrie and Mourning Becomes Electra

 

  1. Sketch the Characteristics of American Poetry from the prescribed poems of Robert Frost, Whitman and Carle Sandburg

 

 

 

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