DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
POETRY
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Write short answers on any FIVE of the following
1. Why did John Keats write "The Eve of St. Agnes"?
2. What is the central idea in William Wordsworth's
"Tintern Abbey"?
3. Describe Matthew Arnold's scholar.
4. What does Byzantium symbolize?
5. Give an accout of Emerson's "Brahma".
6. Comment on the poems of Langston Hughes.
7. What are the main features of Jayant Mahapatra's
poems?
8. What does Derek Walcott signify of "Ruins of a great
house"?
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Consider Milton's Paradise Lost Book II as an epic.
10. Discuss John Donne as a metaphysical poet.
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11. Trace the evolution of thought in Alfred Tennyson's
"The Lotos Eaters".
12. Examine the symbolism in T.S.Eliots "The Wasteland".
13. Attempt a critical appraisal of Sylvia Plath's "Lady
Lazarus".
14. How does Meena Alexander reveal her love for Tiruvella,
her Hometown"?
15. Bring out the salient characteristics of commonwealth
poetry.