146/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng.-101/17 Do you agree to this view of Browning?

Elucidate.
P.G. 1st Semester - 2017
c) Comment on the use of Shakespeare imagery
ENGLISH in the sonnets prescribed in your syllabus.
Poetry : From Middle English to Jacobean Period
2. Explain with reference to the context (any two):
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5×2=10
a) "And shame it is to see-let priests take stock-
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A shitten shepherd and a snowy flock."
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b) "And every fair from fair sometime declines,
Candidates are required to give their answers in their
own words as far as practicable. By chance or nature's changing course
untrimmed."
GROUP–A c) "But if the while I think on thee dear friend
1. Answer any one of the following questions: All losses are restored and sorrows end."
10×1=10
d) "The better angel is a man right fair;
a) "It is a cliche of Chaucer criticism that the
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill."
Canterbury pilgrims are both individuals and
types." Illustrate with the help of examples e) "Men fear death, as children fear to go in the
from 'The Prologue' to The Canterbury Tales. dark; and as that natural fear in children is
increased with tales, so is the other."
b) "With this same key (sonnets)
Shakespeare unlocked his heart, once more.
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare
he!"

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 GROUP–B e) "Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,
3. Answer any one of the following questions: Compels me to disturb your season due;"
10×1=10 ________
a) Consider 'Lycidas' as a pastoral elegy.
b) Discuss 'The Sun Rising' and 'The
Canonization' as metaphysical love poems.
c) "His (Donne's) language has the ring of a living
voice, admonishing his own soul."
Establish this statement with special reference
to the poem 'Batter my heart'.
4. Explain with reference to the context (any two):
5×2=10
a) "Princes do but play us, compared to this
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy."
b) "And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love."
c) "Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude."
d) No white nor red was even seen
So amorous as this lovely green."

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147/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng.-102/17 2. Explain any two of the following: 5×2=10
a) That shall be saved at the day of doom,
P.G. 1st Semester - 2017
In manus tuas, of mights most
ENGLISH Forever, commendo spiritum meum.
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b) ..... I must constrain myself
(Drama : Other than Shakespeare)
To patience and apply me to the time,
Till heaven, as I have hop'd,
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The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. c) He that loveth riches. I will
Candidates are required to give their answers in their Strike with my dart,
own words as far as practicable.
His sight to blind, and from
heaven to depart.
GROUP–A
d) But such a war, as breaks no
1. Answer any one of the following questions:
bonds of peace.
10×1=10
e) But they are rash sometimes, and tell us
a) Analyse how Kyd Presents the theme of
wonders of common things.
revenge in his play The Spanish Tragedy.
Does he follow the senecan tradition?
Discuss. GROUP–B

b) Discuss the plot construction of The 3. Answer any one of the following: 10×1=10
Changeling. a) How does Marlowe deal with the theme of
c) Discuss the art of characterisation as you find damnation in Dr Faustus?
it in Everyman. b) Discuss the character of the Duchess of Malfi.

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 c) Analyse the role played by Sir Epicure
Mammon as you find it in The Alchemist.
4. Explain any two of the following: 5×2=10
a) Consummatum est.
b) You and the rats here keep possession.
c) A sound magician is a demi-god.
d) The place has made you valiant.
e) ... they are the gods that must ride on winged
horses.

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149/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng.-104/17 2. Answer any two of the following: 5×2=10

P.G. 1st Semester - 2017 a) "Last night was one of their Cabal Nights;"
– Identify the speaker. Describe her mental
ENGLISH state.
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(From Neo-classics to the age of Sentiment) b) "You hate mankind." Who hates mankind and
why?

Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours c) How does Misabell declare his love for
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. Millamant in the opening of the play?

Candidates are required to give their answers in their d) Briefly comment on the theme of
own words as far as practicable. contfinement as expressed in Drydens All for
Love.
GROUP–A e) Write a short note on the use of imagery of
1. Answer any one of the following questions: nature in Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
10×1=10
a) Show how All for Love has become a different GROUP–B
saga of love and loss.
3. Answer any one of the following questions:
b) Is The Rape of the Lock a departure from 10×1=10
Juvenalian and Horatian Satire? Give reasons
a) Attempt an essay on the narrative technique
in favour of your answer.
of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
c) "Women, in congreve, are always in their high
b) Critically examine the presentation of gender
spirit." Justify this statement with special
role in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
reference to The Way of the World.
c) Attempt a marxist reading of the poem The
Deserted Village.

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4. Answer any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
a) "The young contending as old surveyed." –
Bringout the implication of this line.
b) Briefly describe the village preacher.
c) How does poet pen 'long vexations past'?
d) Briefly comment on the theme of sacrifice
as depicted in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
e) Bringout implications of the use of excessive
allusians in Behn's Oroonoko.

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150/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng.-105/17 b) What female heart can gold despise?
c) The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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ENGLISH d) He is meek and he is mild.
Paper : MENGCCT105 e) I was a fell destroyer.
(From Pre-Romantic to Romantic)
GROUP–B
3. Answer any one of the following questions:
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours
10×1=10
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their a) Does John Keats celebrate the permanence
own words as far as practicable. of Art in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', or does he
mourn the flux of life? Discuss.
b) Discuss Coleridge's poetic style as you find
GROUP–A
it in 'Christabel' Part I.
1. Answer any one of the following: 10×1=10
c) Analyse Shelley's Prometheus Unbound as
a) Compare and contrast the theme and tone of
an allegory.
Blake's poems 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb'.
4. Explain any two of the following: 5×2=10
b) Would you call Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written
a) O Lady! we receive but what we give...
in a Country Churchyard' an allegorical poem?
Give reasons for your answer. b) Heard melodies are sweet , but those unheard
are sweeter.
c) Analyse Wordsworth's philosophy of Nature
as you find it in Prelude Bk I. c) A sight to dream of, not to tell!

2. Explain any two of the following: 5×2=10 d) Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

a) What immortal hand or eye, e) Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, forever!
_________
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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151/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng/MENGCCT-106/17 2. Answer any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
P.G. 1st Semester - 2017
a) Why was Emma 'most forcibly struck'?
ENGLISH b) Briefly comment on the relationships of
(Non-Fiction & Fiction: Late 18th Century to RomanticAge) Emma, Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill.
Paper : MENGCCT-106
c) What is the anaguorisis moment for Victor
Frankenstein?
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours d) How does Elizabeth face the conflict of love
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. and shame together? What does she do them?
Candidates are required to give their answers in their e) What is the German Interpretation of Victor's
own words as far as practicable. melody?

GROUP–A GROUP–B
(Marks : 20) (Marks : 20)
1. Answer any one of the following : 10×1=10 3. Answer any one of the following questions:
a) How has Mary Shelley shown a constant 10×1=10
feminist anxiety throughout the novel a) Do you think that Lamb's essay 'Dream
Frankenstein? Children : A Reverie begins and end as a short
b) Attempt an essay on the language education story? Discuss.
of the Creature in Frankenstein. b) Write a brief essay on the comic elements in
c) "The plot of Emma is all about who knows Lamb's essay 'The Two Races of Men'.
What, and When:" – c) Discuss Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the
Do you agree with this view? Rights of Woman as a feminist text.
Give reasons in favour of your answer.

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4. Explain with reference to the context or comment
briefly on any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
a) "Here Alice put out one of her dear mother's
looks, two tender to be called up braiding."
b) Here John expanded all his eyebrows and tried
to look courageous.
c) "The infinite superiority of the former, which
I chose to designate as the great race, is
discemible in their figure, port and a certain
instinctive sovereignty."
d) Why did De Quincey romanticize poverty in
his Confessions of an English Opium Eater?
e) He is the true taxer who "Calleth all the world
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148/Eng. SKBU/P.G./1st Sem/Eng/MENGCCT-103/17 2. Answer any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
P.G. 1st Semester - 2017
a) Who are the members of “the Club”? Critically
ENGLISH comment on their Character.
(18th Century Prose & Novel
b) “This would not only be more easy to
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themselves, but more edifying to the people.”
– What is referred to as “this”? Comment on
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours the significance of the suggestion.
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c) “That from his work may be collected a system
Candidates are required to give their answers in their of civil and economical prudence” – Comment
own words as far as practicable. on the observation.
d) “Shakespeare’s plays are not in the rigorous and
GROUP–A
critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but
1. Answer any one of the following : 10×1=10 compositions of a distinct kind;” – justify.
a) Critically examine the role of The Tatler and e) As per Dr. Johnson’s opinion, What is “fatal
The Spectator for the growth of non-fictional Cleopatra” to Shakespeare? What are his other
th
prose in 18 century England. observations in this regard?
b) Critically evaluate Dr. Johnson as a critic of GROUP-B
Shakespeare in the light of his Preface to
3. Answer any one of the following questions:
Shakespeare.
10×1=10
c) What, according to Dr. Johnson, are the “faults”
a) Estimate Gulliver’s Travels as a political satire.
of Shakespearean Plays? Briefly comment on
those “faults”. b) Critically assess 18th century social pictures as
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 c) Discuss how Lawrence Sterne experiments with
the genre novel.
4. Answer any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
a) “I never saw any sensitive Being so detestable”
– who are referred to as “Being so detestable”?
What are Gulliver’s other observations about
them?
b) What is misanthropy? Why the charge of
misanthropy brought against Gulliver? Do you
think the charge justified?
c) What is referred to as “Blanks in the grand
Lottery of Time”? How Fielding deals with that?
d) “But before we proceed to this business, a short
Recapitulation of some previous Matter may
be necessary.” Briefly describe the
“recapitulation”.
e) What is the significance of the expression
'hobby-horse'?
________

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