LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
I SEMESTER – NOV. 2004
EL 1800– NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Date : 25.10.04 Max : 100 marks
Duration : 9 – 12 noon Hours : 3 hrs
IMPORTANT NOTE: Answer PART-A & PART-B in separate answer booklets
PART – A
- Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each: (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
- ‘They are the fearless bees of the night
They are the wrath of the volcanic mountains’.
Explain the poetic device used in these lines.
- ‘The gorilla wrestles with the superman’.
Bring out the significance of this line.
- ‘Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges
When not in the niche others have left,
We fall’
What is the cause for the ‘clash’? Explain
- ‘Sidi, my love will open your mind
Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when
The sun first touches it.’
Comment on the language of the speaker.
- ‘Out of my way, book-nourished shrimp.
Do you see what strength he has given me?’
Who are the two referred have? How are they contrasted?
- Answer any TWO in 150 words each: (2 x 9 = 18 marks)
- How do the poems from Africa play on the human emotions?
Explain with special reference to the poems prescribed for your study.
- How do the East African writers view capitalism, communism and socialism?
- Show how Caribbean Poetry engages a wide spectrum in language continuum – from the Standard English to the Jamaican creolo.
III. Answer any ONE in 300 words: (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
- Bring out the rich oral tradition of the Igbo society as expressed in Things Fall Apart
- How does Soyinka combine reform and criticism in his plays?
PART – B
- Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each: (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
- Yet there are some like me turn gladly home
From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find
The Arabian desert of the human mind.
Explicate the odd connection between ‘jungle’ and ‘desert’ in these lines.
- The stream has suddenly pushed the papery leaves!
It digs a rustling channel of clear water
Explain the imagery in these lines.
- Through the frame; that eyeless
Face, unaware of me, excludes
Me from every consideration.
Who is being accused by the poet and for what reason?
- Feeling the stagnant afternoon
Quicken with the smell of rain.
Bring out the evocation in the above passage.
- Whatever I do I must
Keep my head. I know
It is easier for me to lose my way
forever here, than in other landscapes.
Why does the poet consider a particular landscape highly dangerous?
- Answer any TWO in 150 words each: (2 x 9 = 18 marks)
- Discuss Shaw Neilson as a nature poet.
- Explain the predicament in which the poet finds himself in Loneliness.
- Critically analyse Shirley Lim’s Sonnet as a poem dealing with the baffling dynamics of gender relationships.
III. Answer any one in 300 words: (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
- How accurately is the postmodern condition described in Atwood’s Surfacing?
- What is the intellectual mission of the novelist according to Chinua Achebe?
