LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 2801/LE 823 – BRITISH LITERATURE(1500 – 1670)
Date
: 05 .04.04
Duration : 1- 4 pm
Max : 100 marks
Time : 3 hrs
PART – I
I. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each.
01. Ay fue of fresshe flowers, white and reede
Synging he was, or floytynge, al the day
-What is your comment on this character’s leisure habits?
02. No wette his fyngerss in hir sauce depe
Wel konde she carie a morsal and wel kepe.
-Is this behaviour justified?
03. The lower still I fall only supreme
In misery such joy ambition finds
-Why does this character find his fall “in misery”?
04. But at my back I always hear
Times winged chariot hurrying near
-Why is there such a hurry?
05. Call us what you will we are made such by try love call her one, me another fly
-Describe the mood of the poet.
06. All her particular worth grows to this sum—
She stains the time past, lights the time to come.
-Throw light on this observation.
07. That known, I’ll find scorpions to string my whips
And fix her in a general eclipse.
-Comment upon the desire of the speaker.
08. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.
-Why does the author feel so?
09. Some books are to be tasted, others to be
Swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested
-Explain the implied meaning in these lines.
10. I say to you likewise there will be more joy in
Heaven over one sinner who repents than over
Ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
-Bring out the significance of these lines.
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
-2II. Translate the following passage into modern
11. English and comment on the underline words.
(8 marks)
And bisihi gan for the soules preye
of hem that yat him wherewith to scoleye
of studie took he moost care and moost heede
Nought a word spark he moore than was neede
And that was seyd in forme and revenence
And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence
sowrynge in moral vertu was his speche
And gladly worlde he leane and gladly teche
PART - II
III. Attempt any FOUR in about 200 words each choosing at least ONE from each section.
(4 x 8 = 32 marks)
SECTION – A
12. Analyse the art of story telling in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”.
13. Compare and contrast Prothalamion and Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser.
14. How does the Prologue reveal Chaucer’s Society?
SECTION – B
15. Critically analyse the reasons for the damnation of Dr. Faustns.
16. Bring out the features of Senecan elements in The Spanish Tragedy.
17. What are the arguments of Philip Sidney in placing poetry superior to philosophy and History.
PART – III
IV. Answer any TWO in not more than 500 words each choosing one question from each section.
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
SECTION – A
18. Are we devoid of Satans among us in the 21st century? Answer this from the perspective of Milton’s Satan of
Paradise Lost.
19. Analyse the concept of love and the metaphysical qualities in Donne and Marvel.
SECTION – B
20. Critically analyse The Duchess of Malfi as a revenge tragedy.
21. Give a critical appreciation of Bacon’s essays “Of Studies” and “Of Truth”.
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