POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Term End Examination – December, 2009
ENGLISH
PAPER I
Time — 4 hours Full marks : 100
(Weightage of marks : 80%)
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each question has been indicated in the margin.
Section - A
Attempt any two of the following questions : 18×2=36
1. Assess Chaucer’s Prologue as a document of social realism.
2. Comment on the use of conceits in “The Canonization”.
3. Absalom and Achitophel is a masterpiece of argument in verse. Discuss.
4. Write a critical note on Milton’s presentation of Satan in Paradise Lost, Book I.
Section - B
Answer any three of the following questions : 12×3=36
5. “London” presents an image of contemporary English society”. Discuss.
6. Consider “Resolution and Independence” as a narrative poem.
7. Bring out the romantic qualities in “Kubla Khan”.
8. Write a note on ‘Keats’s craftsmanship with reference to any one of his Odes.
9. Consider “Andrea del Sarto” as a dramatic monologue.
10. Attempt a critical analysis of “Hawk Roosting”.
Section - C
11. Locate and annotate any four of the following : 7×4=28
(a) It is the star to every wandering bark ...
(b) Not fortune’s worshipper nor fashion’s fool,
Not lucre’s madman nor ambition’s tool,
Not proud nor servive ;
(c) Fled is that music ; do I wake or sleep ?
(d) Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.
(e) Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
(f) Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy
of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
(g) Was he free ? Was he happy ? The question is absurd.
Hand anything been wrong, we should
certainly have heard.
(h) The convenience of the high trees !
(i) And as the tightened brakes took hold,
there swelled
A sense of falling like an arrow shower
Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.