LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

AP 29

THIRD SEMESTER – NOV 2006

EL 3805 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1670 – 1832)

(Also equivalent to EL 3800)

 

 

Date & Time : 30-10-2006/9.00-12.00   Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

 

Interpret the following lines in about 50 words each:                                    (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

1. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
2. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure – dome with caves of ice!
3. He raised a mortal to the skies;  She drew an angel down.
4. His pity gave ere charity began.
5. … These heateous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me.

As is a landscapes to a blind man’s eye.

1. This is, the south sea House.

Describe the south sea House.

1. … I love everything that is old; old friends, old books, old wine.

Comment on the speaker.

1. I reverence these young Africans of our own growth.

Why and who is called ‘young Africans?

1. The greatness of Lear is not in corporeal dimension, but in intellect.  Explain.
2. The practice of stage representation renders everything to a controversy of elocution.

Comment.

PART – B

 

Answer any FIVE of the following questions in short  paragraphs of about 150-200 words each:

(5 x 8 = 40 marks)

1. What makes Don Juan (Canto II) idyllie and picturesque?
2. How does Collins recount the blessings of the evening, in his poem?
3. Bring out the underlying concept in the story of the little black boy.
4. Comment on the various themes in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
5. Write a short note on Johnson’s estimate of Milton’s Epics.
6. Why, according to Dryden is Chaucer, the father of English poetry?
7. Consider at least to themes that Swift develops in Gulliver’s Travels.
8. What are the highlights of Congreve’s The Way of the World?

PART – C

 

Answers to be in about 350-400 words:                                                         (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

1. a) Define Shelley’s Adonais as a pastoral Elegy and show how it follows specific

Conventions.

(OR)

1. b) Comment on the range of characters that Sheridan presents in The School for Scandal.

 

1. a) Tintern Abbey is about the growth of Wordsworth’s mind – Discuss.

 

(OR)

1. b) Account for the popularity of She stoops to Conquer.

 

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