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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2803 – 20^th CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH & AMERICAN)

 

 

 

Date & Time : 17.04.2007/1.00-4.00   Dept. No.                                                                        Max. 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

I. Interpret the following in 50 words each:                                                                        10 x 2 = 20

 

1. Stilled legendary depth:

It was as deep as England.

 

1. Courage was mine, and I had mystery,

Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;

 

1.  Listen! Do you not hear

Them?  the singing?

 

1. Listen! Can you not hear the entrance of a new theme?

 

1. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours”.

 

1. And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life.

 

1. I should be glad of another death.

 

1. The panderers and liars have violated and smutted it.

yet this reaching is alive yet

for lights and keepsakes.

 

1. The morning backons

With water praying and call of seagull and rook

 

1. O let not Time deceive you,

You cannot conquer Time.

 

PART – B

 

II. Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following:                           5 x 8 = 40

 

1. Comment on the philosophy of Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
2. What makes ‘ Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
3. How does C. Day Lewis bring out the music of England in ‘You that love England’?
4. Why does Archibald MacLeish call science a saint?  Explain.
5. How does Auden illustrate the contradictory purposes of Time and Love?
6. Discuss “The people, yes” as the great affirmation of faith in democracy.
7. Critically analyse the confessional element portrayed in Sylvia Plath’s “Death & Co”.
8. How does Dylan Thomas present the embodiment of the past and the present?

 

PART – C                                                      4 x 10 = 40

 

III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words each:

 

1. Critically evaluate the theme and content of The Waste Land.
2. Attempt an ecopoetical evaluation of ‘A Unison’, ‘Pike’ and ‘To the Snake’.
3. Consider any six major themes of British poetry with suitable examples.
4. How does eliot present Life and Death as being one concept in his poem ‘Journey of the Magi’?
5. Discuss the psychological overtone in ‘Snake’ by D.H. Lawrence.
6. Attempt a study of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath’s poetry from the point of view of the poet’s self and frustrations of the psyche.