LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 3500 - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Date : 24-04-2012
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART-A
Answer the following questions in about 50 words each:
(10x2=20 marks)
1. How many signed “The May Flower Compact” and when was it signed?
2. What does Bradstreet mean by “with sins, with cares and sorrows vext”?
3. What is the central theme of “The Joy of Church Fellowship”?
4. How many pamphlets are there in “The American Crisis”? What is the pseudonym
Paine used to sign them?
5. To whom is Phillis Wheatley’s poem addressed to and what idea does it convey?
6. Mention the Books of Oriental Philosophy quoted in “Brahma”?
7. Comment on the tone of the poem “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman?
8. How does Marianne Moore contradict herself in “Poetry”?
9 “If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut”- Explain the lines of
Emerson’s “Fable”.
10. Write about the imagery of “The Road Not Taken”.
PART-B
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:
(5x8=40marks)
11. Describe the Puritan mission of the new world with reference to “Wonders of the
Invisible World”?
12. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is not about the secret sin, instead it is about the sin of
Pride- Discuss.
13. What is the main idea in Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago”?
14. Write an appreciation of the poem “The Raven” and its special atmosphere.
15. “The World is infused with a holy radiance, if only we have eyes to see it”Substantiate the statement with reference to Denise Levertov’s “Come into Animal
Presence”.
16. Is the tone rebellious or apologetic in “To S.M. A Young African Painter” by Phillis
Wheatley? - Discuss.
17. Trace the theme of Illusion and Reality in “The Glass Menagerie.”
18. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is “a stay against confusion” –Justify.
PART-C
Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:
(2x20=40marks)
19. Compare the poems “Weary Pilgrim” and “The Joy of Church Fellowship.”
(OR)
Elucidate Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition.”
20. “A person must not be just liked but well- liked”- Discuss with reference to “The
Death of a Sales Man.”
(OR)
Critically analyse Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as a tragedy of a class that yearns
for a home of which it is perpetually deprived.
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