Loyola College B.A. English April 2011 British Literature Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 2501/EL 2500 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1150-1950)

 

 

 

Date : 08-04-2011              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

I. Explain the following passages in about 50 words.                                  (10×2=20 marks)

  1. The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
    To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
    Of all the western stars, until I die.
  2. They also serve who only stand and wait.”
  3. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
    Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!
  4. Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
    Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
    A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
    No waters breed or break.
  5. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study;
  6. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name” —— and immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor arm-chair, where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side
  7. Well, we must not snub the poor boy now, for I believe we shan’t have him long among us. Anybody that looks in his face may see he’s consumptive.
  8. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside,

And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul,

And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head!

Read, read the Scriptures:–that is blasphemy.

9.    I charge thee to return, and change thy shape;      Thou art too ugly to attend on me:      Go, and return an old Franciscan friar;            That holy shape becomes a devil best.

  1. I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
    I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
    Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
  2. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each choosing not more than

    Three from each part.                                                                                              (5×8=40 marks)

PART – A

 

  1. Discuss the features of the dramatic monologue as seen in Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses”.
  2. Attempt a critical appreciation of Ted Hughes’ “The Bear”.
  3. Justify the title of the play “She Stoops to Conquer”.
  4. Elucidate with suitable examples the Metaphysical elements present in John Donne’s poem

“The Flea”.

PART – B

 

  1. Discuss the role of Eppie on Silas Marner’s life.
  2. Discuss the Absurd elements in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”.
  3. What are the major themes in Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”?
  4. How does W.B Yeats explore “his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the

human spirit may converge” in his poem “Sailing to Byzantium”?

 

III. Answer the following in about 300 words each.                                             (2×20=40 marks)

 

  1. Discuss the style of Francis Bacon giving examples from the essays prescribed for study.

(OR)

How did Dr. Faustus’s over reaching ambition bring about his downfall?

  1. How does Jane Austen provide insights into the life of the landed gentry of 19th century

England in her novel “Pride and Prejudice?”

(OR)

How does Shaw expose and debunk the hollowness of romantic ideals in his play “Arms

and the Man”?

 

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Loyola College B.A. English April 2012 British Literature (1550 – 1950) Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 2501/EL 2500 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1550 – 1950)

 

 

 

Date : 11-11-20112            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

  1. Explain the following passages with reference to the context:                     (10×2=20)

 

  1. His state
    Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
    And post o’er land and ocean without rest:
    They also serve who only stand and wait.”
  2. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  3. We think each one will heave to and unload
    All good into our lives, all we are owed
    For waiting so devoutly and so long.
    But we are wrong:
  4. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
  5. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams
  6. No, no. Only mother is confoundedly frightened. She thinks herself forty miles off. She’s sick of the journey; and the cattle can scarce crawl. So if your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin, and I’ll be bound that no soul here can budge a foot to follow you.
  7. I writ them a bill with mine own blood: the date
    is expired; the time will come, and he will fetch me.
  8. ………………………………and vile it were
    For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
    And this gray spirit yearning in desire
    To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
    Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
  9. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study;
  10. A heavy weight of hours has chain’d and bow’d

One too like thee – tameless, and swift, and proud.

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each choosing NOT MORE THAN

      THREE from each part:                                                                                     (5×8=40)

                                                            PART – A

 

  1. “In On His Blindness Milton justifies the ways of God to himself” Comment.
  2. Why does Ulysses want to drink life to the lees?
  3. Discuss She Stoops to Conquer as a comedy of manners.
  4. What does Godot stand for in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

P.T.O

                                                                  PART B

 

  1. How does Shaw use Bluntschli to discredit war?
  2. The transformation of Silas Marner.
  3. Comment on the relationship between the play Faustus and the renaissance.
  4. The pathos in Dream Children.

 

 

       III.  Answer the following questions in about 300 words:                                                (2×20=40)

 

  1. Robinson Crusoe deals with the will of human beings to domineer over others and its meaninglessness” Discuss.

(OR)

Write an essay on the speaker’s relationship with the urn in Keats’s Ode on a

Grecian Urn.

 

  1. How does Orwell trace the nexus between politics and the English Language?

(OR)

Discuss Pride and Prejudice as a typical novel of Jane Austen.

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