LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 5503 (CRITICISM TO THEORY)
Date : 06-05-08
Time : 1:00 - 4:00
Dept. No.
DM 17
Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
Section – A
I. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each. Choose at least
two from each sections:
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
01. Write a paragraph on the concepts of ‘mimesis’ and ‘Catharsis’
02. What are the three unities?
03. Why is Dryden called the father of English Criticism?
04. Do you agree that the “touchstone method” is the best judgment of literature?
Section - B
05. Write a note on the theory of Fancy.
06. Write a paragraph on Victorian Criticism.
07. Highlight the features or Romantic Criticism.
08. Analyse the limitations of the New criticism.
PART – B
II. Answer the following in 400 words each:
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
09. a) Write an essay on Classical Literary Theory
(OR)
b) Explain Neo-classical Literary Theory with at least three examples.
10. a) Eliot’s Impersonal Theory of Poetry
(OR)
b) Freud’s concept of Psycho – analysis
PART – C
III. Attempt a Critical analysis of the following Poem:
20 marks
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou’art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy’or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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