EIILM UNIVERSITY, SIKKIM

TERM END EXAMINATIONS, February 2012 M. A. - ENGLISH, YEAR 1 STUDY OF BRITISH POETRY Duration -3 Hours Note: 1. Attempt any FIVE questions. 2. All questions carry equal marks. Q.1 Write a short note on :a. Norman Conquest, b. The Alliterative Revival. Q.2 a) What is the utility of biographical material in the examination of a writers work? b) What do you understand to be the most influential factors shaping Spensers career as a poet? Would you consider him an opportunist? c) Do you think sonnets can be prepared based on religion pursuits only? Q.3 Give the details about The Garden of Andrew Marvells A Study of His Poems. Q.4 On the Morning of Christs Nativity is less about the celebration of Christ and discusses more on the issue of superiority of a Protestant English spirit. Explain your views. Q.5 Identify the primary influence and main literary source that to be found in Miltons early poetic work. Q.6 Discuss the literature and society in the particular reference to a. The Court and Theatre, b. Restoration Comedy, c. Heroic tragedy, d. Political Satire in the age of Dryden. Q.7. How did confessional poetry differ from the kind of poetry that was written in the early decades or the twentieth century? Q.8 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower discuss. Q.9 Show how death and suicide are important theme in Sylvia Plaths poems. Max Marks: 60