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DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A.(English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2011.
POETRY
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

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PART A — (5 ? 8 = 40 marks)
Write short essays on any FIVE of the following:

1.Consider "A Poison Tree" as an extension of the nature and consequences of anger exploring how it grows and what it grows into.

2.Explain the three stages of Wordsworth's attitude to nature in "Tinterm Abbey".

3.What is the philosophy of life as revealed in "The last ride together"?

4.How does Seamus Heaney develop the idea that the relationship between a child and the parents is the most crucial development of childhood?

5.How is human existence compared to the west running brook?

6.What is the persona's feelings as she lies in hed with her lover in "The Freaks"?

7.Trace the superstitions beliefs in the "Night of the Scorpion".

8.What picture of Australia does A.D. Hope of gives in his poem"?

PART B — (4 ? 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.

9.Consider "Macflecknoe" as a satire on shadwell.

10.Explain how Satan enters into Hell.

11.Write an essay on the "Waste Land" that Eliot Describes.

12.From the poems prescribed for your study, write on the themes used by Emily Dickinson in her poems.

13.Trace the evolution of thought in "Lady Lazarus".

14.What are the reflections of A.K.Ramanujan on a great house?

15.Write an appreciation of wole Soyinka's "Telephonic conversation".