M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
First Semester
English
LITERARY CRITICISM
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. Why is epic poetry higher than tragedy for Aristotle?
2. Name the three kinds of poetry according to Sidney.
3. Who is a poet according to Wordsworth?
4. What kind of language does Wordsworth want to use in
poetry?
5. What is the immediate object of poetry for Coleridge?
6. How doe Coleridge contradict the statement that says the
language between prose and poetry are similar?
7. Define Metaphysical poetry.
8. In what way does Donne display his genius in poetry?
9. How should a novelist be for D.H. Lawrence?
10. What is paradox?
Sub. Code
7MEN1C4
AFS-0475
2
wk 16
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Discuss the "poetic kinds" of sidney.
Or
What does Aristotle say about the plot of a tragedy?
12. Bring out Wordsworth's views on the language of
poetry.
Or
Why did Dryden want to translate Homer?
13. Comment on Coleridge's views on the language of
poetry.
Or
What is Arnold's view on the romantic poets after
the French Revolution?
14. What does Eliot mean by dissociation of sensibility?
Or
How doe Leavis analyse the Ode on a Grecian Urn?
15. D.H. Lawrence states that the novel is the best
guide for man Analyse.
Or
Why did the Romantics use the language of
Paradox?
AFS-0475
3
wk 16
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. "It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. One
may be a poet with versing and a versifier without
poetry" by Sidney Analyse.
17. What led Dryden to concentrate on the Fables?
18. Summarise Arnold's views on the function of criticism at
the present time.
19. Analyse F.R. Leavis's views on Keats as a poet.
20. Why is paradox considered as inevitable to poetry?
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