LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                EL 2803 – POETRY FROM 1900 (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)

 

 

Date & Time : 19-04-2006/FORENOON     Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART A

 

1. Interpret the following lines in about 50 – 75 words each : [10 x 2 = 20 marks]

 

1. The poet of death and lilacs

Loafs by the footpath.

2. So step into the corridor and start,

Directed by the compass of my heart.

3. And I thought of the albatross,

And I wished he would come back, my snake.

4. The morning beckon

With water praying and call of seagull and rook.

5. And suddenly shuffled all the languages,

Changed the tongues of men.

6. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born ?

7. He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
8. I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
9. Their Time is almost Death.
10. How can I live among this gentle

Obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weap ?

 

PART B

1. Write paragraph answers to any FIVE of the following in about 150 – 200 words each:

[5 x 8 = 40 marks]

11. Explain the many meanings associated with the terms, ‘birth’ and ‘death,’ in Eliot’s ‘The Journey of the Magi’:
12. How are Time and Love at cross – purposes in Auden’s poem ?
13. Show how the analogy of the tower of Babel fits the discourse on Sandburg’s power of the people?
14. Dylan Thomas blends actuality with memory. Describe the mingling forces.
15. How does Nature serve as a background to Robert Frost’s philosophy in ‘After Apple Picking’ ?
16. Critically evaluate Owen’s ideas on war in his ‘Strange Meeting’.
17. Show how C.Day Lewis signals the entrance of a new team in ‘You that love England’.
18. Comment on Roethke’s ideas on eternity and time as seen from his poem, ‘I Knew

a  Woman’.

PART- C

• Answer any FOUR of the following in about 250 – 30 words each :

[4 x 10  = 40 marks]

19. Attempt a study of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath’s poetry from the point of view of the poet’s self, the inner most recesses of the soul and frustrations of the psyche.
20. Trace Carl Sandburg’s commemoration of the power of ‘the people’.
21. Describe the swing of the poet’s conscience from instinct to education in regard to his having to do with the snake.
22. How does Eliot portray the Twentieth Century in The Waste Land ?
23. Does the Twentieth Century poetry approve of warfare ? Give your answer with suitable examples and quotes.
24. Enumerate the themes and concerns of the Twentieth Century poetry with enough illustrations.

 

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