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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1800 – NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

 

 

 

Date & Time : 25.04.2007/1.00-4.00   Dept. No.                                                                        Max. 100 Marks

 

Note : Answer Part A & B Separately

PART – A

 

I Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each:                                                                  4 x 3 = 12

 

1. ‘Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges

When not in the niche others have left,

We fall’.

• Explain the cause for the ‘clash’.

 

1. ‘They are the children of iron

They are the fearless bees of the night’.

• What poetic device is used here?

 

1. ‘an haffi a fight

johncnow from sky

fi get food fi nyam’

• How do these lines picture the pathetic plight of these people?

 

1. ‘Did I not, to announce the Harmattan,

Climb to the top of the silk-cotton tree,

Break the first pod, and scatter tasselled seeds

To the four winds – and this but yesterday?’

• Bring out the significance of these lines.

 

1. ‘Sidi, my love will open your mind

Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when

The sun first touches it?

• Comment on the language of the speaker.

 

 

II Answer any TWO  in 150 words each:                                                                                           2 x 9 = 18

 

1. How do the proverbs and the folk-tales enrich the narrative technique of Things Fall

       Apart ?

1. How do culture, society and topography influence the Caribbean Poetry?
2. How do the East African writers view socialism and personal freedom?

 

 

III Answer any ONE in 300 words :                                                                                                1 x 20 = 20

 

1. What are the themes and concerns in studying African Literature?  Give example.
2. Discuss how Soyinka combines reform and criticism in his plays?

 

 

 

 

PART-B

 

1. Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each:                                                                                  4×3=12

 

1. “There are differences

Of course: the lack of reliable charts;”

Establish the link between reliability and differences in these lines.

 

2. “So consoling, we made disconsolate each other.”

Comment on the dynamics of love.

 

3. “I found in ordinary love

the solitudes of poetry”

How is poetry compared with love?

 

4. “The twisted tree is incandescent

with flowers”.

Explain the imagery in these lines.

 

5. “The street has fallen asleep,”

Comment on the figure of speech in this line.

 

 

II.Answer any TWO in 150 words each:                                                                                                 2×9=18

 

6. Consider V.S.Naipaul as a satirical novelist and social critic with reference to “A Wounded Civilization.”

 

7. Comment on the tone of the poem “To a Visitor to Singapore.”

 

8. Comment on the roles of the minor characters in SURFACING.

 

III. Answer any ONE in 300 words:                                                                                                                   1×20=20

 

9. Critically examine “Australia “ as a patriotic poem.

 

10. Discuss SURFACING as a postmodern novel.

 

 

 

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