LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 5501 – CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 18-04-2011              Dept. No.                                                    Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART- A

 

1. Answer the following questions in about 30 words each.                        (10 X 2 = 20 marks)

 

1. Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women.
2. Whatever happens happens by His will.

Now so quickly to your shelters.

Bring out the irony in these lines.

3. Man’s knowledge of God is due to God himself. How does Barclay justify this view?
4. More than the visionary his all.

His stride is wilderness of freedom.

Explain the comparison.

5. The world at the present day stands in need of two kinds of things.

What according to Russell, are the two things the world requires at present?

6. He is the moral fool the man who, as we would say, is playing the fool.

Whom does Barclay refer to as a moral fool? Why?

7. And girls in slack remember Dad.

Bring out the tone of the poet.

8. We hurried towards London, shuffling gouts of steam.

Explain the context.

9. Envy had made them concentrate their attention upon competitors and forget altogether the aspect of their prosperity that depended upon customers.

Explain the moral of this parable.

10. One is always nearer by not keeping still.

Bring out the significance of the line.

 

 

 

 

PART – B

 

1. Answer any five of the following in 150 words each.                          (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

11. Bring out the pathos in the “Song of the Dying Gladiator”.
12. Comment on the theme of Ted Hughe’s ‘Thrushes’.
13. Sketch the character of Miss Jean Brodie.
14. What are Barclays views on the existence of God?
15. Attempt a critical appreciation of Peter Porter’s “Your Attention Please”.
16. Summaries John Benjeman’s “Christmas”.
17. What are Russell’s views on the ideas that have harmed mankind?
18. Bring out the symbolism in Iris Murdoc’s “The Hell”.

 

PART – C

 

• Answer the following in about 300 words each             (2 X 20 = 40 marks)

 

19. Make a study of the themes dealt with in the 20^th century poems prescribed.

 

(OR)

 

20. Consider Ted Hughes as a poet.

 

21. Consider Pinter’s play “The Caretaker” as representative absurd drama.

 

(OR)

 

22. Write an essay on the theme of “The Lord of the Flies”

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 5501 – CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 27-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer the following questions in about 30 words each:                                (10×2=20 marks)

 

1. Terrifying are the attend sleek thrushes on the lawn,

More coiled steel than living

Explain the above lines.

 

2. On motorcycles, up the road, they come:

Small, black, as flies hanging in the heat

capture the restlessness of the motorcycle riders.

 

3. And girls in slack remember Dad.

Comment on the tone of the poem.

 

4. He watches the hearts of things

And does not move or speak.

Explain the context in which Geoffrey Hill utters these words.

 

5. Death is the least we have to fear.

Bring out the irony in this line.

 

6. The superiority of one race to another is hardly ever believed in for any good reason.

Write down Russell’s opinion about racial superiority.

 

7. Man’s knowledge of god is due to god himself.

Explain this statement of Barclay.

 

8. “I’ve had dinner with the best”.

What light does this line throw on the character of Davies?

 

9. The world at the present day stands in need of two kinds of things.

What, according to Russell, are the too things the world requires at present?

 

10. All afternoon through the tall heat that slept

For miles inland,

A slow and topping curve southwards we kept.

Explain the context.

 

PART – B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in 150 words each:                                       (5×8=40 marks)

 

11. Attempt a critical appreciation of Ted Hughe’s “The Jaguar”.

 

12. Critically analyse Peter Porter’s “your Attention Please”.

 

13. Consider “Old Woman” a typical Elizabeth Jennings poem.

 

14. What, according to Russelll, are the ideas that have harmed mankind?

 

15. What is Barclay’s justification for his belief in God?

 

16. Comment on the title of Pinter’s drama “The Care Taker”.

 

17. Write short notes on the symposium in Iris Mardah’s “The Bell”.

 

18. Write short notes on the setting of “Lord of the flies”.

 

PART – C

 

 Answer the following in about 300 words each:                                          (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

19. Write an essay on 20^th century poetry with special reference to the poems prescribed.

(OR)

20. Consider Pinter’s “The Care Taker” an absurd drama.

 

21. What does Russell advocate for a better world?

(OR)

22. Bring out the allegory in “Lord of the Flies”.

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