LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
III SEMESTER-NOV. 2004
EL 3500/ENG 502–AMERICAN LITERATURE
Date
: 28.10.04
Duration : 9 – 12 noon
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
SECTION – A
Answer ALL the questions.(30 words each).
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
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How did Jim call Laura during their school days?
Give any two exploitations of the world of which whitman is sad about.
What is the reward awaiting the weary pilgrim?
What does the phrase ‘rushing creation’ refer to?
Explain the significance of Laura’s favourite glass collection.
What, according to Poe, is the ideal length of a poem? Why?
Bring out the irony in the title of the poem The Road Not Taken.
What is the criticism against the title of Emerson’s poem Brahma? Explain.
How does the author achieve the purpose of his essay in The American crisis?
10. Comment on the character of the early settlers as revealed in The Mayflaoer
Compact.
SECTION-B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each.
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
11. “To S.M. A young African painter “is a poem complementing painting’ – Discuss.
12. ‘Holiness in animals is a blessing in disguise’ – How does the poet prove it?
13. ‘Reminiscence is a way to relive the past’
Analyse this view with reference to
‘There was a child went forth.’
14. “I sit and look out” represents the
exploitation and agony of the entire
world.’ Do you agree with this point?
Give reasons to substantiate your answer.
15. From your study of Philosophy of Composition consider Poe as a Critic.
16. Attempt a critical study of Hawthorne’s The Minister’s Black Veil.
17. What philosophy of life does Emerson bring out in the poems prescribed for you?
18. Examine the view that The Zoo Story presents the farce and the agony of human
isolation.
SECTION-C
Answer the questions in about 300 words each.
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
19. ‘Dreams and expectations are like glass works, fine to look at but too fragile to handle;
Substantiate this view with reference to the play, “The Glass Menagerie”.
(OR)
Edward Taylor reveals the secret of happiness on earth and Anne Bradstreet opens the
door to heaven in their poems – Elucidate.
20. Analyse critically the views of Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens on poetry.
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What is the social reality that Steinbeck is trying to highlight in Of Mice and Men?
Discuss.
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