Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University
MAEG-10
M.A. (Final) EXAMINATION, June, 2011
ENGLISH
Paper-MAEG-10
(American Literature)
Time allowed : Three hours
Maximum marks : 80
Q.No. 1 is compulsory. Attempt one question from each Block. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following excerpts :
(i) The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself the letter I translate into a new tongue.
(ii) A word is dead, when it is said some say -
I say it just begins to live That day.
(iii) My object in living is to unite, My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one sight.
(iv) Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen ground swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the 'sun',
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
(v) I had a job and Patti didn't. I worked a few hours a night for the hospital.....After a while Patti wanted
a job. She said she needed a job for her self respect.
(vi) Night and Day 've been tampered with, Every quality and pith Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.
Block-I
2. Elaborate 'Leaves of Grass' as the national epic of America.
3. Discuss Emily Dickinson as a Mystic poet.
4. Bring out spontaneity and simplicity in Frost's lyricism with suitable references from the prescribed poems
.
Block-II
5. 'The Scarlet Letter' is allegorical novel. Discuss.
6. Discuss Catherine Barkley as a tragic heroine.
7. Elucidate 'The Bluest Eye' as not one story but multiple and interlocking stories.
Block-III
8. Discuss Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' as a tragedy.
9. Elucidate 'The Glass Menagerie' as a memory play and state its symbolic significance.
10. Justify the Emperor Jones' as a one-man play.
Block-IV
11. How, according to Emerson, does the over-soul manifest itself ?
12. What is the issue discussed in the story 'A small, good thing' by the writer ?
MAEG-10
M.A. (Final) EXAMINATION, June, 2011
ENGLISH
Paper-MAEG-10
(American Literature)
Time allowed : Three hours
Maximum marks : 80
Q.No. 1 is compulsory. Attempt one question from each Block. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following excerpts :
(i) The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself the letter I translate into a new tongue.
(ii) A word is dead, when it is said some say -
I say it just begins to live That day.
(iii) My object in living is to unite, My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one sight.
(iv) Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen ground swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the 'sun',
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
(v) I had a job and Patti didn't. I worked a few hours a night for the hospital.....After a while Patti wanted
a job. She said she needed a job for her self respect.
(vi) Night and Day 've been tampered with, Every quality and pith Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.
Block-I
2. Elaborate 'Leaves of Grass' as the national epic of America.
3. Discuss Emily Dickinson as a Mystic poet.
4. Bring out spontaneity and simplicity in Frost's lyricism with suitable references from the prescribed poems
.
Block-II
5. 'The Scarlet Letter' is allegorical novel. Discuss.
6. Discuss Catherine Barkley as a tragic heroine.
7. Elucidate 'The Bluest Eye' as not one story but multiple and interlocking stories.
Block-III
8. Discuss Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' as a tragedy.
9. Elucidate 'The Glass Menagerie' as a memory play and state its symbolic significance.
10. Justify the Emperor Jones' as a one-man play.
Block-IV
11. How, according to Emerson, does the over-soul manifest itself ?
12. What is the issue discussed in the story 'A small, good thing' by the writer ?
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