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Name of the Candidate:
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION - 2011
(ENGLISH)
(FIRST YEAR)
(paper – V)
550. AMERICAN LITERATURE
December) (Time: 3 Hours
Maximum: 100 Marks
SECTION - A
Answer any FIVE questions. (5 × 8 = 40)
I. Annotate the Following:
1. / (a) I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
(b) To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
2. / (a) These and with these and the breath of my chant,
I’ll perfume the grave of him I love.
(b) He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours”.
3. / (a) I learn immediately from any speaker how much
he has lived, through the poverty of the splendour
of his speech.
(b) The human mind cannot be enshrined in a
person who shall set a barrier on any one side
to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
4. / (a) Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all
the poetical tones.
(b) The fact in that originality (unless in minds or
very unusual force) is by no means a matter, as
some suppose of impulse of initiation.
5. / (a) They didn’t seem a bit anxious that I should
investigate how the other half lives and work
on a ship
(b) ) In this cage is a queerer kind of baboon than
ever you’d find in darkest Africy.
6. / (a) You people are going to make them in test tubes,
aren’t you? You biologists – Babies.
(b) Now listen, Martha; listen carefully –
we got a telegram; there was a
car accident and he’s dead.
II. Write Short notes on the Following about 200 Words each:
7. / (a) What is the significance of the title “Lady Lazarus”?
(b) Comment on the structure of a novel, as presented by Henry James.
8. / (a) What picture of the Cambridge ladies do you get in Cumming’s poem?
(b) Do you agree with the view that the sub-plot of “Chapter Two” has no relation to the
main plot?
SECTION - B
Answer any THREE the following in about 800 words each. (3 × 20 = 60)
mind.
(OR)
(b) Discuss Stevens “The Emperor of Ice cream” as a modernist poem.
10. / (a) Do you agree with Poe’s belief that poems are a result of conscious deliberation?
(OR)
(b) Consider Thoreau as a native American philosopher.
11. / (a) Bring out the element of expressionism in “The Hairy Ape”.
(OR)
(b) “All My Sons” is a typical tragedy of modern Times”. Substantiate.
12. / (a) Consider “Billy Budd” as Melville’s version of tragedy.
(OR)
(b) Why is “Huckleberry Finn” called an American Classic?
13. / (a) Examine Hemingway’s narrative technique in “A Farewell to Arms”.
(OR)
(b) Sketch the character of Celia.
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