LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION - ENGLISH LITERATURE
DM 28
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 2803 - 20TH CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH AND AMERICAN)
Date : 17/04/2008
Time : 1:00 - 4:00
Dept. No.
PART – A
I. Interpret the following in 50 words each:
Max. : 100 Marks
10 x 2 = 20
1. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
2.
But truly
I had no certainty, and no hope, only desiring
to hold you, for that joy,…...
3. Let seed be grass and grass turn into lay:
I’m martyr to a motion not my own;
4. Know you seek a new world, a saviour to establish
Long-lost kinship and restore the blood’s fulfillment.
5. I cannot say. Idyllic!
a shrine cinctured there by
the trees, a certainty of music!
6. Ana I thought of the albatross,
And I wished he would come back, my snake.
7. I should be glad of another death.
8. You shall love your crooked neighbour
with your crooked heart
9. The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
10.The Morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook.
PART – B
5 x 8 = 40
II. Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following.
11.Critically analyse the poetic technique of Archibald
Macleish as seen from his poem, ‘Dr.Sigmund Friend
Discover the Sea Shell’.
12.Comment on the conversational tone of Robert Frost as seen in his poems
prescribed for your study.
13.What makes ‘Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
14.How does Stephen Spender present the helplessness of ‘The Prisoners’?
15.How are Time and Love at cross-purposes in Auden’s poem?
16.Explain the meanings associated with the terms ‘journey’, ‘life’ and ‘death’ in
‘Journey of the Magi.
17.Illustrate the poetic technique used by Dylan Thomas.
18.Explain ‘the Nature of an Action’ according to Thom Gunn.
PART – C
III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words.
4 x10 = 40
19.How do Yeats and Eliot differ in their message, as you compare ‘The Second
Coming’ with The Waste Land?
20.How do William Carlos William and Theodore Roethe view life and death in their
poems?
21.Compare the music in ‘You that Love England’ with the war-sounds in
‘Aristocrats’.
22.Compare and Contrast Robert Lowell and Sylvia plath as confessional poets.
23.Trace Carl Sandburg’s commenoration of the power of ‘the people’.
24.Explain the psychological under tone in “Snake” by D.H. Lawrence.
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