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– Do you agree? Discuss with reference to c) What does the poet mean by "the eternal
Poem in October. When was the poem postman"?
written and published. 10+2=12 d) Who was lazarus referred to in Eliot's
Prufrock?
7. Answer any one of the following questions : b) Which two adjectived are used to describe
12×1=12 the father in "Night of the Scorpion"? Do
you consider these expressions as justified?
a) Critics have pointed out that the central
Why?
theme of Naidu's poetry is "the panorama of
India's ageless life." Justify the statement c) Why "Gopi and Brinda" are repeated in "A
with reference to "The Song of the River?"
Coromondel Fishers". 12 d) What is the meaning of the expression "flesh
b) Estimate Kamala Das as a confessional poet was heavy on my back"? Why that was
with special reference to the poem An considered as "hard to believe"?
Introduction. 12 e) "All mine, mine alone"
c) Critically summarize Joyanta Mahapatra's – Contextualize the expression and comment.
poem "Hunger" and comment on its title.
f) "Be Amy , or be Kamala, or, better
6+6=12
still, be Madhabikutti." – Comment.
8. Explain, with reference to the context, any one of
the following passages. 6×1=6 g) "They clicked their tongue" – Who are they?
What they said about the incident?
a) "I too call myself I"
That tend on mortal thoughts, Unsex me here, who ne'er so little from his game withheld,
Turns head, and leaps up at his holder's threat.
b) it is a tale
e) And he himself withal so far fallen off
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
From that first place, as scarce no note
Signifying nothing.
remains,
c) There if I grow,
f) See what a drove of horns fly in the air,
The harvest is your own. Wing'd with my cleansed and my credulous
d) And you all know security breath!
Is mortal's chiefest enemy. g) Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
4. Explain any two of the following passages with Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
reference to the context : 6×2=12 The pale companion is not for our pomp.
a) Sweet are the uses of adversity, h) I have had a most rare vision. I have had a
dream, past the wit of man to say what dream
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
it was.
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
i) Not a mouse
b) I can suck
shall disturb this hallow'd house;
melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks I am sent with broom before.
eggs. To sweep the dust behind the door.
c) If it do come to pass 5. Answer any two of the following questions :
That any man turn ass 6×2=12
Leaving his wealth and case
a) What do psychoanalytic critics do? Explain
A stubborn will to please
with example.
– Who says this and when? c) "For then he's full of matter"
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–Who is being referred to here? What does OR
the speaker mean by 'matter'? Who is Francis Flute in A Midsummer
OR Night's Dream?
OR
What is the 'rite of May'?
d) "I remember when I was in love
I broke my sword upon a stone"
– Who is the speaker? Whom was the
speaker in love with?
OR
What does the phrase "quos aequus amavit
Jupiter" mean?
OR
What was the love potion made of in A
Midsummer Night's Dream? On whom was
it applied?
e) What happens between Duke Senior and
Duke Frederick in the end?
OR
What role does Justice clement play in the
end of Every Man in His Humour?
Candidates are required to give their answers in h) 'I killed him in self-defence.'
their own words as far as practicable.
Who killed whom in self-defence?
i) Why does the old man compare himself to
1. Answer any eight of the following questions : turtles?
2×8=16
j) 'You are already a man.'
a) What was the name of the old man? Where
Who is being referred to here as 'a man' and
did he fish?
why?
b) '...it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.'
k) 'Now we fish together again.'
What does 'it' refer to? Why is it being
Who is the speaker? When does he say it?
described thus?
l) 'Then go in and take your chance like any
c) What happened when the old man first took
man or bird or fish.' Who says this to whom?
the boy out in a boat to fish? How old was
the boy at that time? 2. Answer any one of the following questions :
16×1=16
d) 'These were the relics of his wife.' What
were the relics? a) Discuss the images and symbols employed
by Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea.
Whom does the old man refer to as 'true viii) You should drive with caution at night.
brothers' and why? (Use the adverb form of 'caution)
i) Mount Everest is the highest peak in ii) Being tired, he refused to go.
the world. (Change into a complex sentence)
(Change into comparative degree) iii) He was too late to catch the train.
ii) This is the longest day of the year. (Change into a negative sentence)
(Change into positive degree) iv) Thinking always made him sleepy.
iii) This is the funniest thing I have ever (Change into a complex sentence)
heard. (Change into comparative degree) v) I am sure that I shall pass.
iv) Akbar was one of the greatest kings of (Change into a simple sentence)
India. (Change into positive degree) vi) He is the last man to do it.
v) This train runs faster than any other (Change into a complex sentence)
train. (Change into superlative degree)
vii) His silence proves his guilt.
vi) It was the easiest thing to do.
(Change into a complex sentence)
(Change into positive degree)
viii) It is certain that he will go.
vii) He was the most enthusiastic student in
(Change into a simple sentence)
the class.
(Change into positive degree) ix) If you speak the truth I Shall pardon
you. (Change into a compound
viii) None of his friends is as jovial as
sentence).
Atanu.
(Change into superlative degree)
iv) She kept me guessing about her next viii) He asked me where I live.
move. ix) She has gone there yesterday.
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