LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
– ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2006
EL 2801 - BRITISH LITERATURE
Date & Time : 19-04-2006 /FORENOON Dept. No.
PART – I
I. Answer the following in 50 words each:
1.
Alas, alas who is injured by my love?
How is this question more than a question?
2.
Of study took he moost cure and moost heede.
Why does he do so?
3.
The beauty shall no more be found.
What is the implication of this line?
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
4.
And she was cleped madame Eglentyne
Ful weel she soong service dyvyne.
Comment on the narrative irony here.
5.
The lower still I fall only supreme
In misery such gay ambition finds.
Why does this character find his fall “in misery”?
6.
The misery of us that are born great!
We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us.
Bring out the significance of this realization.
7.
For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Why does the author feel so?
8.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Explain the implicit meaning in these lines.
9.
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.
Throw light on these lines.
10.She entreats you take ‘t not ill
The innocent shall be the more approved by it.
Why does the speaker say so?
Max. : 100 Marks
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II. Translate the following passage into modern English. (8 marks)
And bisihi gan for the soules preye of hem that yat him wherewith to scoleye of studie took he moost care and heede
Nought a word spark he moore than was neede
And that was seyed in forme and reverence
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 atleast ONE from
each section: (4 x 8 = 32 marks)
SECTION – A
12. Critically analyze how Chaucer goes about presenting the portrait gallery
in the “General prologue”.
13. Argue for and against Satan using his first soliloquy in
Paradise Lost Book IV.
14. Compare and contrast Prothalamion and Epithalamion of Edmund
Spenser.
SECTION - B
15. How does Philip Sidney place poetry superior to philosophy and History?
16. Estimate the character of Bosola.
17. Give a critical appreciation of Bacon’s essay ‘of studies’.
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. Analyze the concept of love and metaphysical qualities in Donne and
Marvel.
19. Show how Chaucer’s Work appeals to contemporary times.
SECTION – B
20. Is the revenge motive strong enough to kill the Duchess in the
Duchess of Malfi?
21. Discuss the reasons for the fall of Dr. Faustus.
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