LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 5500/ENG 505 WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
Date : 03.04.04
Duration: 1 – 4 pm
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
PART – A
I. Answer the following in about 50 words each:
1. See with what anguish, with what dishonour,
These lacerated limbs must wrestle
Age after age.
*Whose anguish and dishonour is being a spoken of? Why has it happened?
2. Indeed the day comes, when the Lord of heaven
Shall learn at last His need of me!
*How is this likely to happen?
3. I gave blind hopes a home within their hearts.
*Explain what the speaker means by “blind hopes”
4. My father
Obeyed and drove me from his palace doors,
Barring them on me with a heart as sad
As was my own.
*Who is the speaker? Why has the father banished his child?
5. Better far to die
Once and for all than live this daily torment.
*Comment on the predicament of the speaker.
(2 x 10 = 20 marks)
Annotate the following:
6. You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in you.
7. No one advises, "let him alone, let him hurt himself some more, he is not yet healed."
8. "Hear me Trojans! Darnadians, and allies. The victory has been with Menelaus; therefore give back Helen with
all her wealth, and pay such fine as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among them that shall be born hereafter."
9. Bring then, two lambs a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and the Sun and we will bring a third for Jove.
10. To address an unfit audience
Is to spill nectar in a sewer
PART – B
II. Answer any SEVEN of the following in about 150-200 words each:
(7 x 5 = 35 marks)
11. Write a note on the theme of love in Sakuntala.
12. Comment on Anna’s role in Dolly’s life.
13. Discuss the subplot in Anna Karenina.
14. Sum up Horace’s views on poetry.
15. Comment on the piot construction in The Clouds.
16. Consider Gitanjali as a devotional poem.
17. Give a definition-description of Aristotle’s views on tragedy. Comment.
18. Explain with example the Homerin simile.
19. Point out the aesthetic delight, moral help and spiritual enlightenment that the Confessions offer.
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PART – C
III. Answer any three of the following in about 300 words each:
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(3 x 15 = 45 marks)
Discuss aspects of tragedy in Anna Karenina.
What is Prometheus’ crime? Comment on the punishment he has to endure.
What is the role of the visitors in Prometheus Bound? How do they highlight the protagonist’s predicament?
Describe the modalities of the single combat between Alexandrus and Menelaus
Show how the Confessions of St. Augustine is a record of a soul's journey to grace.
What according to Thiruvalluvar are the duties of a minister?
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