CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT.
14A / 208
St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APRIL 2014
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
II
2013
11UEN230203
BRITISH POETRY – II
(VICTORIAN TO MODERN PERIOD)
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1. Sphocles is a ______.
a) Greek dramatist
c) French novelist
b) English poet
d) None
2. “Shameful Death” is written by
a) Tennyson
c) Rosetti
b) William Morris
d) Browning
3. The falcon cannot hear the falconer – here falconer refers to
a) Man
b) Birth of another age
c) Christ
d) The beast
4. In “snake” D.H. Lawrence describes a hot ______ day.
a) Winter
b) Spiring
c) Autumn
d) Summer
5. Rudyard Kipling was born in ______.
a) Bombay
b) Calcutta
c) Cochin
d) Hydrabad
Fill in the blanks:
6.
7.
“My Last Duchess” was written by ______.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the wife ______.
8.
Gerald Manley Hopkins was born at Stratford, Essex, in the
year ______.
In “Strange Meeting” Owen narrates his encounter with the
______ whom he had killed the previous day.
10. In 1956 ______ married the poetess Sylvia Plath.
9.
State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. The background of “My Last Duchess” is the Italian town Ferrara,
known as the cradle of renowned painters.
12. “The Darkling Thrush” expresses the poets inability to share the
happiness of a bird singing in winter.
13. “A Refusal to mourn the Death, by fire of a London Child” was
written by T.S. Eliot.
14. D.H. Lawrence did not have the opportunity to witness a snake
drinking water from his trough.
15. “If” is a poem about the moral qualities needed to become a
perfect man.
Match the following:
16. Dover Beach
- a) Magi
17. Christina Rosetti
18. The Unknown Citizen
- b) A totalitarian country
- c) The Prisoner
19. Robert Bridges
20. Three Wise Men
- d) EVE
- e) Religious faith
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
5 x 4= 20
Annotate the following:
21. a. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
OR
b. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
22. a. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.
OR
b. Brute beauty and valour and act, oh air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! And the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous. O my chevalier!
23. a. Give a critical appreciation of Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush”.
OR
b. The poem “How do I love Thee?” is a glorification of poet’s
true love – Discuss.
24. a. Was the unknown citizen capable of independent thinking?
OR
b. How did D.H. Lawrence respond to his snake guest at first and
how did he feel a little later?
25. a. How does Thomas Gunn portray the legends of history in “My
Sad Captains”?
OR
b. Describe the qualities which Rudyard Kipling thinks a perfect
man should possess.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26. What is Ulysses’s life goal?
27. How does W.B. Yeats project the present troubled world in “The
Second Coming”?
28. Bring out the significance of the journey of the Magi to
Bethlehem.
29. In “Prayer Before Birth” what are the fears that the poet
experiences about being born into this world?
30. Write a critical note on Ted Hughes’s “Thrushes”.
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