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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION -ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER APRIL 2018
17/16UEL2MC02- BRITISH POETRY
Date: 26-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
I. Explain any FIVE of the following in about 75 words: X 4 20) 1. All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: 2. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. 3. My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! 4. Do not say, "I love her for her smile- her look her way Of speaking gently," 5. Let us go then, you and When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; 6. Where paper decorations hang, And bunting in the red Town Hall Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'. 7. Trees are cages for them: water holds its breath To balance them without smudging on its delicate meniscus. 8. The Intrusion Was not for devastation: Peace is apparent still on hearth and field. II. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 150 words: X 8 32) 9. What prompted Shakespeare to compare his ladylove with the summer season? 10. Set forth the metaphysical elements that you have found in Herbert's The Pulley. 11. Explain the glorification of spiritual quality of love as shown in A Valediction
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Forbidding Mourning? 12. How does Philip Larkin present the significance of spirituality over the physical buildings in his poem Church Going? 13. Present the unconditional and unconventional love as portrayed in Carol Ann Duffy's Valentine. 14. Explain the dehumanizing effects of war by extracting sources from Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth. III. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 300 words: (4X 12= 48)
15. Analyse Mac Flecknoe as a masterpiece of mock epic.
16. 'Life is mortal but art is immortal'. Describe this quote with reference to Ode on a Grecian Urn.
17. Attempt an analysis of the poem,Ulysses, as a yearning for individualism and thirst for knowledge.
18. How does "A Prayer for My Daughter" reveal a father's concern for his daughter?
19. Cull out the parallelism between the predatory instincts of the bird and human behaviour as presented in Ted Hughes' "Hawk Roosting".
20. Make a critical analysis of the Lucy poems.