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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – April 2009

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

 

 

 

Date & Time: 20/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                                             Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

 

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

 

1. With the voices singing in our ears, saying

That this was all folly.

2. You can’t laugh off their capacity to take it.
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. O let not Time deceive you,

You cannot conquer time.

6. Find the storm of wood strings brass at year’s finale:

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

7. Stilled legendary depth:

It was as deep as England.

8. What’s freedom for? To know eternity.

I swear the cast a shadow white as stone.

9. He’s all pine and I am apple-orchard.
10. Their time is almost Death.

PART – B

 

1. Write paragraph answers to any FIVE of the following in about 150 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 “As I walked out one evening” by Auden?
13. What is the ‘nature of an action’ according to Thom Gunn?
14. Dylan Thomas blends actuality with memory. Describe the mingling forces.
15. Critically examine Owens’s ideas on war in ‘Strange meeting’.
16. What makes Douglas say,’ Each, fool and hero, will be an immortal’?
17. Comment on the philosophy of Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
18. Discuss how Archibald MacLeish blurs the distinction between science and faith.

 

PART – C

 

III.  Answer any FOUR of the following in about 300 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. Consider the myths in “The Waste Land”.
23. Critically evaluate the theme of war in the Twentieth century British poetry.
24. Discuss the ecological concerns as seen in the Twentieth century British and American poetry

 

 

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