C.U. English Honours Part-I Question Paper 2013 [Second Paper]

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2013

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) Show how Marvell has achieved the characteristic metaphysical blend of wit and passion in To His Coy Mistress.

(b) How does Blake contrast childlike innocence with adult wisdom in The Lamb and The Tyger.

Group-B

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

(a) Should one read Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” as a simple poem on the beauty of nature? Justify your answer.

(b) Closely examine Coleridge’s use of imagery in Kubla Khan.

(c) How does Shelly present the West Wind as both ‘Destroyer and Preserver’? Answer with textual references.

(d)  How does Keats explore the capacity of imagination to transcend Reality in Ode to a Nightingale?

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

(a) Let se-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to others, world on worlds have showne,

Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

(b) Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?

Think not of them, -- thou hast thy music too.

Group-C

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

(a) Critically examine Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 87.

(b) What you consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 130 an unconventional love poem? Justify your answer.

Group-D

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

(a) Milton’s Invocation is not simply an epic formality. Examine the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost, Book I, in the light of this remark.

 (b) What role does Beelzebub play in “Paradise Lost”, Book I? ’

Group- E

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

(a) How does supernatural machinery in “The Rape of The Lock” enhance the appeal of the poem?

(b) Examine The Rape of The Lock as a social satire.

Group-F

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

        i.            Refrain

      ii.            Horatian Ode

    iii.            Pastoral Elegy

     iv.            Blank Verse

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