LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
Vth SEMESTER-NOV. 2004
EL 5500/ENG 505 – WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
Date
: 25.10.04
Duration : 9 – 12 noon
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
I. Answer the following in not more than 50 words each.
(10 x 3 = 30 marks)
1. Midst all good things the best in modest grace.
That speaks not first before the elders face.
How according to the poet ‘Thiruvalluvar’ is modesty akin to grace. Explain.
2. Who what they’ve learned, in penetrating words know not to say.
The council fearing, though they live, as dead are they.
Who are the living dead according to the great seer Thiruvalluvar? Explain
3. I used the mind that you, my God, had given me,
and with an assortment of grunts and whimperings
and movements of my arms and legs made my point.
What human faculty is St. Augustine refering to in these lines. Explain briefly.
4. To you, my God I confess what my soul really
longs for. the inner peace that will enable me to
restrain my evil ways, so I can learn to choose your good ways.
Explain the allusion referred to in these lines.
5. From all this it is plain enough that a free
Curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
What were St. Augusines thoughts on education. Explain.
6. So joys a Lion, if the branching deer
Or mountain goat, his bulky prize, appear.
What is the comparison? Explain.
7. Soft as the fleeces of descending snows,
The copious accents fall, with easy art.
How is the Oration of Ulysses described?
8. The fount of flame I stole in the stalk of fennel,
Stay of their lives, and teacher of their arts.
Discuss the myth related to Prometheus.
9. Frail are all arts beside Necessity.
Why does Prometheus make such a statement?
What is the significance?
10. Forc’d by my fate, I leave your happy land.
How does Aeneas reflect the Augustan Spirit?
II. Answer any SIX in a paragraph, of 100-150 words each.
(6 x 5 = 30 marks)
1. What according to Horace made him a writer in the likes of Homer and Virgil?
2. How is God envisaged by Rabindranath Tagore in his ‘Gitanjali’?
3. Why is Kalidasa called the Indian Shakespeare?
4. Write a short note on the feminist portrayal in the novel ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo
Tolstoy.
5. Analects is regarded as a basic scripture of confucianism. Discuss with reference
to Section I (Part I – VI)
6. The Clouds is a satire that is primarily concerned with education. Justify.
7. Discuss Inferno (Canto III) as an allegory.
III. Write an essay of 200-300 words an any FOUR of the following.
(10 x 4 = 40 marks)
1. a. What are the aims of poetry as expounded by Horace in Ars Poetica? Discuss.
(OR)
b. State the importance of St. Augustine’s Confessions to the story of civilization.
Enumerate.
2. a. Attempt a study of ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy as a novel of social protest.
(OR)
b. Write an essay on the modernistic aspect of the novel Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy and the factors that raised it to the status of a world classic.
3. Critically analyse Prometheus Bound as a Greek tragedy.
4. Women in Aeneid feature predominantly as suffering victims opposed to the
progress of history. Discuss Virgil’s characterisation of Dido in the light of this
statement.
5. Placing Iliad in its mythical context, analyse Book III of the epic.
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