LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION – JUNE 2007
EL 5500 - WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
Date & Time: 27/06/2007 / 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
I. Interpret the Following Lines in About 50 Words Each.
Max. : 100 Marks
(10x2 = 20)
1. Poets aim at giving either profit or delight, or at combining the giving of pleasure
With some useful percepts for life.
2. The chorus should sustain the role and function of an actor, and should not sing anything
between the acts that does not contribute to the plot and fit appropriately into it.
3. False was that name the immortals call thee by.
4. Choose a subject that is suited to your abilities, you who aspire to be writers; give long
thought to what you are capable of undertaking and what is beyond you.
5. No greater dharma or worldly benefit can accrue than by suiting the speech,
To the assessed intellectual level of the audience.
6. Broken is my honor, and ill-kept the faith vowed to the ashes of Sychaeus.
7. My mother already anticipated them and thought it better to risk in them the clay from
which I would later be molded than the new born man himself.
8. But by no tearful tale will he be swayed, nor any words heed, to be bent thereby
Fate hinders, heaven shuts fasts his willing ears.
9. I could weep over the death Dido brought upon herself out of love for Aeneas,
yet I shed no tears over death I brought upon myself by not loving you.
10. You have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unique until it rests
in you.
II. Answer any Four of the following in about 150 words.
(4x10 = 40)
1. Explain Tagore’s mystic vision of God in Gitanjali.
2. Attempt a character sketch of Prometheus in the light of Aristotle’s conception of a tragic
hero.
3. Write a note on the chorus in ‘Clouds’
4. Explain the allegorical elements found in Dante’s The Inferno with reference to Canto III.
5. The opening prayer and meditation of St. Augustine’s work ‘The Confessions’ Book I
reveals his life’s quest for God. Explain.
6. Write a note on the Ring motif in ‘Sakuntala’.
III. Answer the following in about 300 words each.
(2x20 = 40)
1. Discuss Tolstoy’s treatment of the theme of Adultery in Anna Karenina.
(OR)
Analyze ‘Prometheus Bound’ in the context of Aristotle’s views on tragedy
2. The personality of Aeneas is marked by the characteristics which were most admired in the
Augustan Rome. Explain.
(OR)
Describe Helen as a representative of the conflict between the Trojans and Greeks from
your reading of the book The Illiad, Book III.
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