LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 3800/LE 923 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1670 – 1832)

Date        :16.04.04                                                                                         Max   : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                    Hours : 3 hrs

PART – A

1. Answer the following briefly: (10 x 2 = 20)
2. A present Deity they shout around:

A present Deity the vaulted roofs rebound.

2. For when the Fair in all their pride expire,

To their first elements their souls retire:

3. Full many a flowers are born to blush unseen

And waste its sweetness in the desert air.

4. … That time is past,

and all its aching joys are now no more

and all its dizzy raptures.

5. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread

Eternal sunshione settles on his head.

6. “The practice of stage representation reducess everything to a controversy of elocution”. Expand the passage with refernce to the context.
7. “Spirits and fairies cannot be represented… they can only be believed”. Interpret the above pasaage.
8. “See him in the dish, the second cardle, how meek he lieth”. Comment on “second cradle” and “meek”.
9. “I have a kindly yearning towards these dim speeks- poor blots- innocent blackness”. Explain the underlined words.
10. “Much remains to sing. Many fantastic shapes rise up but they must be mine in private”.Explain with reference to the context.

 

PART – B

1. Answer any five of the following questions in short paragraphs of almost 100-150 words each.                                                                                                (5 x 8 = 40)
2. What does the story of the Little Black Boy convey to the reader?
3. The situation presented in The Castaway is about a belief present in those times. What is it?
4. Describe the many soothing effects that the Evening has according to Collins.
5. What is the central episode of summer in “The Seasons”?
6. Write briefly on the theme of love in Pride and Prejudice.

16. Critically evaluate Dryden’s estimate of Chaucer in Preface to fables.

17. Write a short on the theme of Abuse of Reason in Gulliver’s third voyage.
18. Bring out some of the most striking aspects of Medievalism in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.

Part C

• Answer the following in about 350-400 words each.          (2 x 20 = 40)

19. a) Bring out the distinguishing features of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal.

Or

1. b) Describe the three stages of Wordsworth’s encounter with Nature.
2. a) She Stoops to Conquer is an anti-sentimental comedy – discuss.

Or

1. “Tintern Abbey” shows many of the characteristics of the Romantic temperament in poetry”. Elucidate.

 

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