M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
Second Year
English
Paper IV — TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer Question No. 1 from Unit I, Two questions from Unit II and Two Questions from Unit III
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
1. Annotate FOUR of the following:
(a) Earth, receive an honoured guest;
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Iries vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry
(b) The lips of time leech to the fountain head.
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
(c) Struck, I learnt
More promptly out next time, more curiously,
And saw it all again in different terms.
(d) A serious house on serious earth it is
In whose blent air all our compulsion meet,
(e) Drinking the sea and eating the rock
A tree struggles to make leaves
An old woman follow from space.
(f) War was return of earth to ugly earths,
War was foundering of Sublimities
Extinction of each happy art and faith (g) Go on now with your supper, and on
To be sleepy, for if she found you
Were such a warrant to talk, she’d be
Stringing gabble till the dawn of day.
(h) And have you no mind of my
Weight of passion, and the holy
dispansation, and the driff of heifers,
I am giving, and the golden ring.
UNIT II
2. Comment on the central theme in In Memory of W. B. Yeats of W.H. Auden.
3. Discuss the theme of remembered childhood in Dylan Thomas. Poem in October,
4. Critically examine the animal imagery in the poems of Ted Hughes.
5. Examine the central theme in the poems in Robert Graves.
6. The Playboy is an extravagant comedy with elements of force. Explain.
7. Write an essay on the influence of the Irish Theatre on the playwrights.
8. Critically appreciate any one poem of Philip Larkin prescribed.
UNIT III
9. Consider Thomas Gunn as a movement poet.
10. Examine Fry’s art of characterization in A Phoemie Too Trequenet.
11. Discuss the dramatic structure in Happy Days.
12. Bring out the element of absurdity in
The Birthday Party.
13. Write an essay on the lyrical quality in the poems of Stephen Spender. 14. Write short notes on FOUR of the following.
(a) Dialogue in Happy Days.
(b) Comedy of Menace.
(c) Irish Romanticism.
(d) Theatre of Decadence in modern Drama.
(e) Mihilistic glamour in Thomas Gunn.
(f) Element of Modernism in Stephen Spender.
(g) Imagery in Ted Hughes.
(h) Symbolism in War Poetry.
Second Year
English
Paper IV — TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY AND DRAMA
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer Question No. 1 from Unit I, Two questions from Unit II and Two Questions from Unit III
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
1. Annotate FOUR of the following:
(a) Earth, receive an honoured guest;
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Iries vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry
(b) The lips of time leech to the fountain head.
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
(c) Struck, I learnt
More promptly out next time, more curiously,
And saw it all again in different terms.
(d) A serious house on serious earth it is
In whose blent air all our compulsion meet,
(e) Drinking the sea and eating the rock
A tree struggles to make leaves
An old woman follow from space.
(f) War was return of earth to ugly earths,
War was foundering of Sublimities
Extinction of each happy art and faith (g) Go on now with your supper, and on
To be sleepy, for if she found you
Were such a warrant to talk, she’d be
Stringing gabble till the dawn of day.
(h) And have you no mind of my
Weight of passion, and the holy
dispansation, and the driff of heifers,
I am giving, and the golden ring.
UNIT II
2. Comment on the central theme in In Memory of W. B. Yeats of W.H. Auden.
3. Discuss the theme of remembered childhood in Dylan Thomas. Poem in October,
4. Critically examine the animal imagery in the poems of Ted Hughes.
5. Examine the central theme in the poems in Robert Graves.
6. The Playboy is an extravagant comedy with elements of force. Explain.
7. Write an essay on the influence of the Irish Theatre on the playwrights.
8. Critically appreciate any one poem of Philip Larkin prescribed.
UNIT III
9. Consider Thomas Gunn as a movement poet.
10. Examine Fry’s art of characterization in A Phoemie Too Trequenet.
11. Discuss the dramatic structure in Happy Days.
12. Bring out the element of absurdity in
The Birthday Party.
13. Write an essay on the lyrical quality in the poems of Stephen Spender. 14. Write short notes on FOUR of the following.
(a) Dialogue in Happy Days.
(b) Comedy of Menace.
(c) Irish Romanticism.
(d) Theatre of Decadence in modern Drama.
(e) Mihilistic glamour in Thomas Gunn.
(f) Element of Modernism in Stephen Spender.
(g) Imagery in Ted Hughes.
(h) Symbolism in War Poetry.
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