LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010

    EL 3809  – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

 

Date : 09-11-10                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

1. Comment on any four of the following in about 75 words each: 4*5 =20 marks.

1. It was that fatal and perfidious bark,
   Built in th’ eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,
   That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
2. But being both from me, both to each friend,
   I guess one angel in another’s hell:
   Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt,
   Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
3. In nature and the language of the sense,
   The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
   The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
   Of all my moral being.
4. Wives are young men’s mistresses: companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
5. The whole parish-politicks being generally discuss’d in that place either after sermon or before the bell rings.
6. It was observed that Ho-ti’s cottage was burnt down more frequently than ever.
7. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each: 5* 8=40 marks
8. ‘Epithalamion’ ends on a traditional note about the memorializing power of verse. How does the poem both invite the passage of time and resist it?
9. How does the poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by Keats set up an opposition between the real world of experience and the ideal world of imagination?
10. Explore how Wordsworth relies heavily on descriptions of nature to complement themes of mortality and immortality, bliss and sorrow in his poem ‘The Tintern Abbey’.
11. Analyse the imagery employed by Coleridge in ‘Kubla Khan’.
12. Bring out the humour and pathos in ‘A dissertation upon a roast pig’
13. Discuss Addison’s portrayal of Sir Roger’s character in Sir Roger at Church.
14. Critically analyse Newman’s idea of knowledge and professional skills.
15. Discuss Sydney Carton’s plan to rescue Darney in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

 

• Answer any two of the following in about 300 words each:- 2*20=40 marks.

1. Examine the elements of pastoral elegy in John Milton’s ‘Lycidas’.
2. Analyse the character of Faustus and explore how the play reflects the theme of damnation.
3. Tess is more sinned against than sinning.-Discuss.
4. Consider ‘Emma’ as a comedy of matchmaking errors.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

Date : 20-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

1. Comment on the significance of any four of the following quotes:- (4*5=20)
2. Ne let the same of any be envied:

So Orpheus did for his own bride!

So I unto myself alone will sing;

The woods shall to me answer, and my Echo ring.

2. Nothing so sweet as magic is to him,

Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss:

3. A little black thing among the snow,

Crying ! weep! weep! in notes of woe!

‘When are they father and mother? say!’

4. Behold him while he is doing –it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equally he twirleth round the string! Now he is just done.
5. Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
6. If keeping holy the seventh day were a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.

 

1. Attempt any five of the following in about 150 words each :-                        (5*8 =40)

 

7. Mephistopheles plays a pivotal role in the play ‘Dr.Faustus’ – Discuss.
8. How does the poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ reflect a series of conflicts between reality and the romantic ideal of uniting with nature?
9. Comment on the conceits employed by the poet John Donne in ‘Canonization’.
10. Discuss the characteristics of a pastoral elegy as reflected in Milton’s ‘Lycidas’.
11. Discuss Addison’s views of Sir Roger in Sir Roger at church.
12. Critically analyze Bacon’s views on marriage and single life.
13. Write a brief note on the role played by three milkmaids in Tess of the D’urbervilles.
14. Estimate the character of Harriet in

 

1. Write any two essays in about 350 words each :- (2 * 20 =40)

 

15. Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’.
16. Discuss the rise and fall of Dr.Faustus from an erudite scholar to a cheap trickster.
17. Critically analyze Tess of the D’urbervilles as a tragedy.
18. Consider Ivanhoe as a historical novel.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

Date : 02-05-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

1. Comment on the significance of any FOUR of the following:

(4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

1) Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

2)  “……..as Orpheus did for his own bride……

The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.”

 

3)  In the blest Kingdoms meek of joy and love.

There entertain him all the Saints above

4)  Sometimes, when he is pleased  with the matter of his Devotion,

he pronounces Amen   three or four times to the same prayer.

 

5) Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public,

have proceeded from the Unmarried or childless men;  which both in

affection and means have married and  endowed the public.

 

6)  ‘O, father, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats’.

 

1. Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each: 

(5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

7. By identifying the exact day of the wedding

(the summer solstice, June 20),  Spenser allows the reader to fit his

poetic description of the ceremony into a real, historical context- Comment

 

 

 

 

 

8. . Faustus’ gruesome end was at the hands of the

very creatures he then commanded.- Analyze

 

9. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is an elegy in name but not

in form–     Evaluate

10. Bring out the paramount  importance given to marriage in Wilde’s

“The Importance of Being Earnest”

11. Evaluate Addison’s portrayal of the odd and uncommon aspects of

Sir Roger’s   character  in Sir Roger at church.

12. How does Bacon view marriage and single life?
13. Critically analyze Newman’s idea of professional skills.
14. Estimate Charles Lamb’s writing style in ‘A dissertation upon a Roost pig’.

 

 

• Answer any TWO of the following in about 400 words each:

(2 X 20 = 40 marks)

15. Discuss the plot and element of sentimental drama in She Stoops to Conquer.

 

 

16. Comment on the theme, symbol and motifs of John Webster’s

The Duchess of  Malfi

 

17. Tess is a victim of Fate and Chance – Discuss.

 

18. Consider ‘A Tale of Two cities’ as a historical novel.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

Date : 08/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

1. Comment on the significance of any FOUR of the following:             (4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

1. And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love

Made one another’s hermitage;

You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;

 

2. The better angel is a man right fair

The worse spirit a woman coloured il       l.

 

3. Wake now my love, awake; for it is time

The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed

All ready to her silver coche to clime.

 

4. Single men, though they may be many times more

charitable, because their means are less exhaust,

yet, on the other side they are more cruel and

hard hearted because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

 

5. Unlike to mankind’s mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably

Intertwisted, and not be unravelled without hazard, he is – good throughout.

 

6. Sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces

“Amen” three or four times to the same prayer.

 

1. Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:              (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

7. For Militon, Lycidas was more than just a pastoral elegy as he used it for his own

personal   grievances”- Explain

 

8. What efforts does the bride groom take to prove his passionate love for his bride

throughout the poem Epithalamion?

 

9. Analsye the exaggeration in all the stanzas of The Canonisation by John Donne.

 

10. Evaluate Wordsworth as the worshipper of nature from the point of his poem Tintern

           Abbey.

 

11. Critically estimate Bacon’s views on Marriage and single life.

 

12. Discuss Newman’s idea of knowledge.

 

13. Critically analyse the theme of sacrifice in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

 

14. Evaluate Sir Roger’s character in Sir Roger at church.

 

 

 

III. Write any TWO of the following in about 300 words each:               (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

15. Bring out the hero, the villain and the victim in Dr Faustus.

 

16. Justify Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a farce and comedy of manners.

 

17. Critically analyse the working of fate and chance in the life of Tess.

 

18. The theme of ‘Emma’ is about the heroine’s painful understanding of the truth

about herself – Discuss.

 

 

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