CU ENGLISH HONOURS QUESTION PAPER

2017

ENGLISH-HONOURS

Second Paper

Full Marks-100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A

1. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                               14X1

(a) Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” explores the concept of the “carpe-diem” in a unique manner – Discuss.

(b) How do Blake’s poems “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” present contrary views of existence? 

Group-B

2. Answer any two questions of the following (each within 500 words):                                          14X2

(a) Examine the gradual changes in Wordsworth’s perception of Nature at different stages of his life with reference to “Tintern Abbey”.

(b) Comment on the elements of Romanticism in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”.

 (c)The roles of preserver and destroyer are performed by the west wind with equal ease in Shelly’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”. Elucidate.

(d)  How does the nightingale in Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” transport the poet to the transcendental realm? 

 3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context (each in 250 words):                   8X1

(a) Where can we find two better hemispheres,

Without sharp north, without declining west?

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 (b) And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

roup-C

4. Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1

(a) Show how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is anti-petrachan in all aspects.

(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 87.

Group-D

5.  Answer any one question of the following (in 500 words):                                                            14X1

(a) Write a note on the Invocation in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book I.

 (b) Comment on Milton’s grand style in Paradise Lost, Book I.

Group- E

6. Answer any one question of the following (in 450 words):                                                                14x1

(a) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a balanced critique of 18th century society. Discuss.

(b) Do you consider the supernatural machinery is Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to be an integral aspect of the poem?

Group-F

7. Write notes (in around 150 words)on any two of the following literary terms:                              4x2

         i.            Mock-epic

       ii.            Blank Verse

      iii.            Rhyme

     iv.            Symbol