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(a) He will make Nature ashmd her long sleep, when art Whos but a stepdame, shall do more than she In her best lone to mankind, ever could.

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2010
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(b)

He bears The visible mark of the beast in his forehead And for his store, it is a work of darkness, And with phiolososphy binds the eyes of man.
( PAPER - I )

510. ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM CHAUCER TO 1660 December ] [ Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 100 Marks Answer any FIVE questions from Section - A and THREE from Section - B. All questions carry equal marks. SECTION - A I. Annotate the following : (5 8= 40)

II. Attempt the following in about 200 words each: 7. (a) How does Spenser describe the Faerie Queene ?

(b) Make a critique of Herberts poems. 8. (a) How does More portray Utopia ?

1. (a) They were adrad of hym as of the deeth, His wonying was ful faire upon an haeth, With grene trees Y-shadowed was his place. Turn Over

(b) Comment on Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers.

2 (b) And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen On which was first Y-written a crowned A And after Amor Vincit Ommia. 2. (a) With gifts of wit and ornaments of nature, Fit for so goodly stature. (b) Yet Leda was ( they say ) as white as he, Yet not so white as these, nor nothing near ; So purely white they were, That even the gentle stream, the which them bare Seemd foul to them. 3. (a) But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that thou owst. (b) Let me not to marriage of true minds Admit impediments. 5. (a)

3 4. (a) Let us love nobly and live and adde againe Yeares and yeares unto yeares ; till we attaine To write three score : (b) If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that ore doe slacken non can die. It is no less worthy to observe how little alternation in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant.

(b) Believe not much them that seem to despire riches; for they despise them that despair of them; and none Worse when they come to them.

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5 SECTION - B (3 20= 60) 12. (a)

6 Discuss the fall of Faustus as the fall of an evil genius. (OR) (b) Consider The Alchemist comedy of manners. 13. (a) as a

III. Answer any THREE of the following : All questions carry equal marks. 9. (a) Describe Chaucers The Prologue as a portrait of gallery. (OR) (b) Comment on the lyrical appeal of Prothalmion. 10. (a) Discuss the form and content of Shakespeares sonnets. (OR) (b) How does Donne differ from conventional expressions in his poems ? 11. (a) Bring out Sidneys ideas in An Apology for Poetry. (OR) (b) Discuss Bacon as an essayist.

Evaluate The Changeling as a horror tragedy. (OR)

(b) Sketch the character of the Duchess of Malfi.

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