LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

DM 28

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

EL 2803 – 20TH CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)

 

 

 

Date : 17/04/2008            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

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

 

1. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
2. But truly

I had no certainty, and no hope, only desiring

to hold you, for that joy,……

 

3. Let seed be grass and grass turn into lay:

I’m martyr to a motion not my own;

4. Know you seek a new world, a saviour to establish

Long-lost kinship and restore the blood’s fulfillment.

5. I cannot say. Idyllic!

a shrine cinctured there by

the trees, a certainty of music!

6. Ana I thought of the albatross,

And I wished he would come back, my snake.

7. I should be glad of another death.
8. You shall love your crooked neighbour

with your crooked heart

9. The people take the earth

as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.

10. The Morning beckon

With water praying and call of seagull and rook.

 

 

PART – B                                                  5 x 8 = 40

1. Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following.

 

11. Critically analyse the poetic technique of Archibald

Macleish as seen from his poem, ‘Dr.Sigmund Friend

Discover the Sea Shell’.

12. Comment on the conversational tone of Robert Frost as seen in his poems prescribed for your study.
13. What makes ‘Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
14. How does Stephen Spender present the helplessness of ‘The Prisoners’?
15. How are Time and Love at cross-purposes in Auden’s poem?
16. Explain the meanings associated with the terms ‘journey’, ‘life’ and ‘death’ in ‘Journey of the Magi.
17. Illustrate the poetic technique used by Dylan Thomas.
18. Explain ‘the Nature of an Action’ according to Thom Gunn.

 

 

PART – C                     4 x10 = 40

III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words.

 

19. How do Yeats and Eliot differ in their message, as you compare ‘The Second Coming’ with The Waste Land?
20. How do William Carlos William and Theodore Roethe view life and death in their poems?
21. Compare the music in ‘You that Love England’ with the war-sounds in ‘Aristocrats’.
22. Compare and Contrast Robert Lowell and Sylvia plath as confessional poets.
23. Trace Carl Sandburg’s commenoration of the power of ‘the people’.
24. Explain the psychological under tone in “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence.

 

 

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