LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – NOV 2006
EL 1803 - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - 2OTH C
Date & Time : 26-10-2006/1.00-4.00 Dept. No.
AP 21
Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
I. Answer the following in 50 words each:
(10 x 3 = 30 marks)
1. She hobbles along anyway
And tightens her grip on your shirt
Who is she? What is her motive in doing so?
2. A flaming bullet,
A flaming corpse,
Then a flaming eulogy,
Bring out the difference in the usage of the word ‘flaming’ in each line.
3. I watched the flame feeding on my mother.
Why was the flame feeding on his mother?
4. I cannot be spit up into a few sharply defined elements, as the intellect, the emotions and
the will.
What cannot be split up into elements? Why?
5. it’s true I write in English
dream in the language of Shakespeare n keats
but i am not an anglo my friend
How does the poet establish his identity here?
6. “Flower- factions rang the strife in Psyche’s bower”
i) Comment on the phrase Psycho’s bower.
ii) What were the factions striving for?
7. “Unread library books
Usually mature in two weeks
And begin to lay a row
Of little eggs in the ledgers ..”
1) What does the passage reveal?
8. “And the waves gently kissed the classic shore
of France or Italy, beneath the moon.”
1) What sense of the poet is pictured in the passage?
9. “a changed mother
and more than
one annual ritual”
1) What event made the mother changed?
2) What was the ritual about?
10. “Almost I can recall where I was born
The hot verandas where the charfferers drowse
Backyard dominion of the ragged thorn
And nameless servants in my father’s house”
- Appreciate the rhyme scheme.
PART – B
II. Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each:
(8 x 5 = 40 marks)
11. Comment on the theme of God of small Things.
12. Do you find any evolution in the character of Raju? Justify your stand with examples.
13. How does Kushwant Singh present the immediate Post – Independence scene near the
Indo-Pakistan border.
14. Critically evaluate the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel.
15. How does sharat chandra view Indian politics?
16. Justify the title ‘Of Many Hundgers’ by Babani Battacharya.
17. What are Mulk Raj Anand’s views on ”The Untouchables”?
18. Consolidate the contribution of the Hindu forms of art to the rest of the world as
perceived by Anand K. Coomaraswamy.
19. Enumerate the plethora of activities of Indians in the past listed by Sri. Aurobindo.
20. ‘A Letter’ is an unlocking of the author in nostalgia – Elucidate.
PART – C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each:
(2 x 15 = 30 marks)
21. Write a critique of Radhakrishnan’s “The Hindu View of Life”.
22. a) How does Tagore portray the conflict between Man and Nature in Mukta Dhara?
(OR)
b) Critically review the Indian poetry in English with special reference to diction, theme,
style and figures of speech.
23.‘The Renaissance in India’ is nothing but a rebirth of the soul of India into a new body of
energy – Establish.
24.a) “Tuglag” is irony deeply tragic In the end Tuglag and his kingdom are one in chaos,
and he knows it” – Discuss.
(OR)
b) Bring out the Indianness in A.K. Ramunujan’s poems prescribed for your study.
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