LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 2803 – 20TH CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)
Date : 17-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
- Interpret the following lines: 10 x 2 = 20 marks
- Listen! Do you not hear
them? the singing?
- Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England.
- You shall be leaders when zero hour is signalled,
Wielders of power and welders of a new world.
- He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
- And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
- And then our fights: we’ve fought together
Compact, unanimous; - And there could I marvel my birthday
Away but the weather turned around. And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
- Vaguely life leaks away,
And time will have his fancy.
- The people is a tragic and comic two face: hero and hoodlum:
phantom and gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth.
- Here is the understanding not to love
Our neighbor, or tomorrow that will sieve
Our resolutions.
- Answer any five of the following : 5 x 8 = 40 marks
- How does Archibald MacLeish relate science and faith?
- Comment on Roethke’s ideas on eternity and time as seen in, ‘I Knew a Woman.’
- Critically analyze the fertility myth in The Waste Land.
- What prompts Yeats to anticipate the Second Coming?
- How does Carl Sandburg demonstrate that the power lies with the common man in his poem ‘The
People,Yes’?
- Comment on the symbolism in the poem ‘Journey of the Magi’ by T.S.Eliot.
- Comment on the conflict between the ‘voice of education’ and man’s natural instinct as reflected in
D.H.Lawrence’s ‘The Snake’.
- Discuss the theme of the poem ‘Ballad of the Goodley Fere’.
III. Answer any four of the following in detail: 4 x 10 = 40 marks
- Does the Twentieth Century Poetry approve of warfare? Give your answer with suitable examples
and quotes.
- Compare the music of ‘Unison’ with that of ‘You that love England.’
- Consider the eco-friendly aspects in ‘A Unison,’ ‘To the Snake’ and ‘Pike.’
- Show how W.H.Auden’s poem ‘As I walked out one evening’ offer a realistic view of life and love.
- Explain the imagery and the choice of diction in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Death and Co.’
- Write a critical appreciation of T.S.Eliot’s ‘ Journey of the Magi’.