B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
Third Semester
English Literature
POETRY — II
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 1 10)
Answer all questions.
1. is regarded by Milton as Death's
harbinger.
Eve Adam
Sin
2. Satan flew times round Eden before
entering it for the second time.
six seven
nine
3. The poem begins with Andrea's to
Lucrezia to sit with him and not "quarrel any more."
request order
passion
Sub. Code
1BEN3C1
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2
Sp 3
4. The allusion to the ancient Greek tragic dramatist
Sophocles offers a context for the speaker's growing

"sadness" "ideas"
"thoughts"
5. The blessed damozel wears stars in her
head.
five six
seven
6. The voice of swayed the speaker's mind
in "Snake."
self education
god
7. In "The Second Coming" Yeats offers a disturbing
prophecy of cultural
dissolution monarchy
monotony
8. Hopkins feels that nature has lost its
beauty fertility
triviality
9. According to Eliot, the world of the hollow men is the
land.
lovely cactus
lotus
10. Church going implies the act of going into a church as
also the disappearance of the church as an
institution ideal place
idolatry
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3
Sp 3
Part B x 7 35)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. How does nature react to Eve's and Adam's eating
of the forbidden fruit?
Or
Do you find Eve more realistic than Adam?
Substantiate.
12. Describe the situation when the poem "Andrea Del
Sarto" begins.
Or
How does Arnold stress the need for sincere love?
13. What are the hope and fears of the damozel?
Or
Why does the speaker in "Snake" call education as
"accursed human education"?
14. Why does Yeats visualize a terrible God in "The
Second Coming"?
Or
How does Hopkins bemoan the destructive effects of
Industrial evolution?
15. Comment on the use of symbols in "The Hollow
Men".
Or
What is the speaker's attitude to the church that he
has entered in the poem "Church Going"?
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Sp 3
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Analyze the character of Satan in Paradise Lost Book IX.
17. Describe the note of despair in Arnold's "Dover Beach".
18. Analyze the two voices in Lawrence's "Snake".
19. Examine Yeat's reaction to the rising tide of violence in
postwar Europe.
20. How does Eliot present the helplessness of modern man
in "The Hollow Men"?
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