B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Fourth Semester
English Literature
POETRY-II
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What are the causes of Andrea's failure as an artist?
2. How does Arnold describe the sea and the moonlight at
the beginning of the poem?
3. Why is the blessed damozel sad?
4. When does the poet see a snake?
5. What does W.B.Yeats sadly meditate upon?
6. To whom the poem "wind hover" is dedicated?
7. Why are the hollow men shaped without form?
8. What is the narrator's initial attitude to the church?
9. How do the thrushes on the lawn look?
10. How many times is the word used in kipling's poem?
Sub. Code
4BEN4C1
AFF-4242
2
Ws1
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions by choosing either or
11. Write about the character of Lucretia.
Or
In what respects does Andrea change in the
course of the poem.
12. Bring out the critical appreciation of "Dover Beach"
Or
Describe the blessed damozel's physical features.
13. How was Lawrence fascinated by the snake?
Or
Why does W.B.Yeats visualize a terrible God?
14. How is "The wind hover" described by the poet?
Or
Discuss the form and content of "The Hollow Men".
15. What are the thoughts that initially arise in the
cyclist's mind when he steps into the vacant church?
Or
What according to Ted-Hughes are man's
limitations?
AFF-4242
3
Ws1
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Write an appreciation of the poem, "Thrushes".
17. Attempt a critical appreciation of Arnold's "Dover Beach".
18. How does the lover see the Blessed damozel
in imagination?
19. Bring out the significance of the title "The Wind hover"-
"To christ our Lord".
20. What qualities, according to kipling shoud brave and
honourable men have?
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