LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009
EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 20TH C
Date & Time: 17/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
- Annotate or interpret the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)
- A sawed – off sunbeam comes to rest
gently against the driver’s right temple.
- Is it a museum of beliefs, a medley of rites, or a mere map, a geographical expression?
- You look right at the sky.
Clear through the bullet holes
she has for her eyes.
- i am a POET
i have lived forty centuries under various names
- You are all knowing, friends,
What sweetness is in Miss Pushpa.
- “A grey baboon sits statue-like alone
Watching the sunrise………………”
- “ Unread library books usually mature in two weeks
And begin to lay a row of eggs”
- “ And he left us a changed mother
And more than one ritual”
- “ For many they were home, for me too wild
Too walled for me those valleys full of death”
- “ But none was exclusive, the three elements are always present”
- Answer any eight of the following in 150 words each: ( 8 x 5 = 40 marks )
- Write a long note on the theme of spirituality and the sense of sacrifice in Mukta Dhara.
- Enumerate the themes in Indian Poetry in English, with examples.
- Discuss how the sleepy village of Mano Majra becomes an epicentre of communal violence.
- Critically evaluate English, August.
- Is Raju a true hero? Discuss.
- Recall the tender and indelible memories of Toru Dutt depicted in her poems.
- Discuss Idealism Vs Pragmatism in the play “ Tughlaq”.
- Comment on the style of Kanthapura by Raja Rao.
- Bring out the contemporary significance of “ The Untouchables”.
- Trace out the realism in the novel “So Many Hungers”.
PART – C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 450 words each: (2 x 15 = 30 marks)
- How do Ezekiel and Kolatkar feature India in their poems?
- a). Write a critical essay on Indian Writing in English, tracing its origin, growth and development.
OR
b). Condense the views of Radhakrishnan as found in The Hindu View of Life and
draft your critique on it.
- Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind – Discuss.
- a) Attempt an essay on the placement of women in “The Dance of Shiva”
OR
- b) A.K.Ramanujan’s poems are completely Indian though satirical- Discuss.