LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

LO 53

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3802 / 3807 – AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

 

 

 

Date & Time: 04/05/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION A

Answer the following in about 50 to 75 words each (10×2=20 marks)

1. He is the only one who knows where it’s buried.

What is the mystery discussed here?

1. I have never seen such corn.

Identify the speaker and the symbolism in the line.

1. When he leads his black soldiers to death

He cannot bend his back.

What is the core issue implied in the above lines?

1. They drove me out of the forest

They took me away from the jungles

Elaborate briefly on the speakers condition.

1. It’s a mystery to me. I was out in back there.

And the rain was coming down.

In what situation does the speaker find himself?

1. That money belongs to mama, Walter, and its for her to decide how she wants to use it.

Why does Walter want the money?

1. I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man in his limousine and I say, “yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the drive sir?”

Identify the speaker’s emotion. What does it say of his situation?

1. Let be be finale of seem

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream

Explain the significance of the imagery.

1. The Cambridge ladies live in furnished souls

Comment on the tone.

1. What is the significance of the plant struggling for life in A Raisin In The Sun?

 

SECTION B

Answer any five of the following in about b200 words (5×8=40 marks)

1. Discuss A Farewell To Arms as a realist novel on the themes of love and  War.
2. Critically analyse Death of a Salesman as a critique of American values.
3. Write a critical appreciation of Langston Hughes’s poetry as a Protest poetry.
4. Examine the question of Identity as depicted in Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man.

15. Show how children seem to have a more tolerant world view than adults in To Kill a Mockingbird.
16. Comment on the relationship between mother and daughter in ‘Night Mother.
17. Discuss some of the major thematic concerns in beat poetry
18. Comment on Wallace Stevens views on modern poetry.

 

SECTION C

Answer the following in about 400 words (2×20=40 marks)

19. Critically examine Buried Child from a psychoanalytic perspective.

(or)

Discuss Robert Lowell as a confessional poet in the light of the poems

you have read.

20. Write an essay on black motherhood in either A Raisin In The Sun or Beloved