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1. Write short notes on the following I2x5=60
W. H. Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts, that resonates with the poetic narratives of art of the Romantic and Victorian period
Spiritus Mundi in the Second Coming as a storehouse of the world's phantasmagoria
The thematic and symbolic significance of the Mosque, Caves and Temple in E. M. Forster's Passage to India'
D. H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers' is as much autobiographical as Dicken's David Copperfield.
Jimmy Porter as a spokesman of Britain's new educated class with its anxieties and frustrations
2. It was not until the 1920s that new notions of time and states of mind have been stressed with greater impact in twentieth century novel. Elucidate with examples. 30
Explain with references, how modem drama with its disjointed and ambiguous deliberations that blur the distinction between reality and illusion, serves to intensify the dreadful angst of the protagonist. 30

3. "The time theme of T. S. Eliot's poems is real, exactly as birth, death and love are real". Elucidate with reference to his poems. 30
How does A. K. Ramanujan represent in his poems kaleidoscopic patterns of the Indian panorama and culture. 30
4. Critically analyse how the stream of consciousness technique, used to depict the labyrinth of the subtleties of human mind, is executed with prowess and precision in Mrs Dalloway and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 30
(bl How would you respond to the view that of all the Indian novels Kanthapura is the most comprehensively and intimately Gandhian
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5. Read the drama/poetry passage above and answer the questions that follow (6x5)x2=60
He spits. E moves to the centre, halts with his
back to auditorium.
E Charming spot (He turns, advances to
front, halts facing the auditorium)
Inspiring prospects (He turns to Let's
go.
We can't.
E W hy not?
We are waiting for G.
E (Despairingly), Ah! (Pause) You're sure
it was here?
What?
That we were to wait.
He said by the tree. (They look at the tree)
Do you see any others
What is it?
I don't know. A willow.
Where are the leaves
It must be dead.
No more weeping.
Or perhaps it's not the season.
Looks to me more like a bush.
A shrub
A bush
A What are you insinuating That
we've come to the wrong place.
He should be here.
He didn't say for sure he'd come.
And if he doesn't come
We will come back tomorrow.
And then the day after tomorrow.
Possibly.
And so on.
The point is.
Until he comes.
You're merciless.
We came here yesterday.
Ah no, there you mistaken.
What did we do yesterday
What did we do yesterday
Yes.
Why .... (Angrily) Nothing is certain when
you' re about.
E In my opinion we were here.
V (Looking round) You recogmse the
place?
I didn't say that.
Well?
E That makes no difference.
V All the same .... that tree .... (turning round
the auditorium) .... that bog.
Identify the key areas of conflict in the conversation by focusing on the opposites.
Comment on the style of minimal language used by the dramatist.
How does the scene reflect an absurdity?
How does the playwright succeed in
subverting the audiences' comfortable illusions?
How do the characters express a universal theme through their conversation
Father, when he passed on
left dust
on a table full of papers
left debts and daughters
a bed-wetting grandson
named by the toss
of a coin after him,
a house that leaned
slowly through our growing
years on a bent coconut
tree in the yard.
Being the burning type,
he burned properly
at the cremation
as before, easily
and at both ends,
left his eye coins
in the ashes that didn't
look one bit different
several spinal discs, rough,
some burned to coal, for sons
to pick gingerly
and throw as the priest
said, facing east
where three rivers met
near the railway station;
no long-standing headstone
with his full name and two dates
to hold in their parentheses
everything he didn't quite
manage to do himself,
like his caesarian birth
in a brahmin ghetto
and his death by heartfailure
in the fruit market.
But some one told me
he got two lines
in an inside column
of a Madras newspaper
sold by the kilo
exactly four weeks later
to street hawkers
who sell it in tum
to the small groceries
where I buy sail,
coriander,
and jaggery
in newspaper cones
that I usual I y read
for fun. and lately
in the hope of finding
these obituary lines.
And he left us
a changed mother
and more than
one annual ritual.
How does the narrator describe his
Which arc the subliminal expressions that reveal the attitude of the narrator
Comment on the imagery and irony expressed.
How does the apparent simplicity express
subtleties of thought
Identify the poet and comment on his style of poetry.
6. Show how Joseph Conrad's 'Lord Jim' explains, the crisis faced by an individual through an elaborately woven scheme of narration. 30
Critically analyse House for Mr. Biswas' from a diasporic perspective. 30
7. In his later poems Yeats foreshadowed in a prophetic way the modern political situation and the death wish of modern culture. Explain with reference to some poems of W. B. Years.
30
"The most striking feature of twentieth century poetic taste was to explore experiences meticulously and weave rich patterns of meaning rather than render in mellifluous verse imagery drawn from nature." Elaborate with examples. 30
8. E. M. Forster's A Passage to India is replete with "liberal dilemmas in England and India." Discuss. 30
Philip Larkin belongs to the Movement Poets who wrote intelligible and empirical poems. Substantiate with reference to Larkin's poems.
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