M.A-M.A English 2nd Year LITERARY CRITICISM(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
Second Year
English
Paper I — LITERARY CRITICISM
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Question No. 1 compulsorily.
Answer ONE question from each Unit making FIVE questions in total.
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
1. Attempt a critical appreciation of the following poem.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
UNIT II
2. Explain Aristotle's theory of imitation.
3. Critically comment Dr. Johnson’s views on Milton.
4. Critically examine Coleridge's theory of poetry.
UNIT III
5. What, according to Arnold, are the hallmarks of great poetry? Illustrate.
6. Comment on Eliot’s conceptions of ‘tradition’, ‘individual talent’, ‘historical sense’ and ‘depersonalisation’.
7. What, according to T.S. Eliot, is dissociation of sensibility?
8. Explain I.A. Richards’ four kinds of meaning.
UNIT IV
9. In cleanth Brook’s concept the rule of irony, in the writing of poetry, undergoes a dramatic
change. Explain.
10. Bring out the views of Wimsatt and Beardsley on absolute objectivity in criticism.
11. Explain Empson’s the seventh type of ambiguity.
UNIT V
12. Discuss the importance of stylistic evolution in teaching literature.
13. Discuss the theoretical base of structuralism.
14. Examine Stanley Fish’s views on text.
15. Comment on ‘‘structure, sign and play in the discourse of human sciences’’.
16. What is the major emphasis of the essay ‘‘Towards a Feminist poetics’’? Explain