LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 1800 – NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Date & Time : 25.04.2007/1.00-4.00 Dept. No.
LO 39
Max. 100 Marks
Note : Answer Part A & B Separately
PART – A
I Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each:
4 x 3 = 12
1. ‘Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges
When not in the niche others have left,
We fall’.
- Explain the cause for the ‘clash’.
2. ‘They are the children of iron
They are the fearless bees of the night’.
- What poetic device is used here? Explain.
3. ‘an haffi a fight
johncnow from sky
fi get food fi nyam’
- How do these lines picture the pathetic plight of these people?
4. ‘Did I not, to announce the Harmattan,
Climb to the top of the silk-cotton tree,
Break the first pod, and scatter tasselled seeds
To the four winds – and this but yesterday?’
- Bring out the significance of these lines.
5. ‘Sidi, my love will open your mind
Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when
The sun first touches it?
- Comment on the language of the speaker.
II Answer any TWO in 150 words each:
2 x 9 = 18
6. How do the proverbs and the folk-tales enrich the narrative technique of Things Fall
Apart ?
7. How do culture, society and topography influence the Caribbean Poetry?
8. How do the East African writers view socialism and personal freedom?
III Answer any ONE in 300 words :
9. What are the themes and concerns in studying African Literature? Give example.
10. Discuss how Soyinka combines reform and criticism in his plays?
1 x 20 = 20
2
PART-B
I. Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each:
4x3=12
1. “There are differences
Of course: the lack of reliable charts;”
Establish the link between reliability and differences in these lines.
2. “So consoling, we made disconsolate each other.”
Comment on the dynamics of love.
3. “I found in ordinary love
the solitudes of poetry”
How is poetry compared with love?
4. “The twisted tree is incandescent
with flowers”.
Explain the imagery in these lines.
5.
“The street has fallen asleep,”
Comment on the figure of speech in this line.
II.Answer any TWO in 150 words each:
2x9=18
6. Consider V.S.Naipaul as a satirical novelist and social critic with reference to “A Wounded Civilization.”
7. Comment on the tone of the poem “To a Visitor to Singapore.”
8. Comment on the roles of the minor characters in SURFACING.
III. Answer any ONE in 300 words:
9.
1x20=20
Critically examine “Australia “ as a patriotic poem.
10. Discuss SURFACING as a postmodern novel.
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