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University: Madras University
Subject: THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Course: B.A English
Question Paper Code: U/ID 4023/NRJ
Exam Year: May 2013
Time: 03 hours
Maximum Marks: 100
MAY 2013 U/ID 4023/NRJ
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
1. Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 30 words each, choosing not more than Two
from each Group : (5 × 2 = 10)
GROUP A
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(a) A man that is young in years may be Old in hours, if he have lost no time.
(b) It is generally better to deal by speech Than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man’s self
(c) If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of Humanity?
Why have you made me your target?
Why have I become a burden to you?
GROUP B
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(d) Shall I compare Thee to a summer’s day? Thou artmore lovely and more temperate
(e) Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.
(f) Of force of heavenly beams infusing Hellish pain Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair Storms, and freezing fires.
GROUP C
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(g) Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss:
Her lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!
Come Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena !
(h) Ah Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
(i) Hang sorrow! care’ll kill a cat.
2. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following questions in about 100 words each, choosing
atleast Two from each group : (5 × 5 = 25)
GROUP A
(a) What are Bacon’s views on Youth and Age?
(b) Sketch the character of Job.
(c) Give a brief account of the appeal made by Donne to God.
(d) Summarize Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.
GROUP B
(e) Discuss the role of Faustus’s soliloquies. How does Faustus use the magical gifts that he receives?
(f) Sketch the character of Robin.
(g) What does Jonson mean by “Comedy of Humours?”
(h) Explain the significance of Lucifer’s role in Dr. Faustus.
3. Answer the following questions about 300 words each : (4 × 15 = 60)
(a) (i) Bring out the philosophy of Bacon found in his ‘‘On Masques Triumphs’’.
Or
(ii) Justify Bacon is an essayist of worldly wisdom with special reference to the essays prescribed.
U/ID 4023/NRJ
(b) (i) Analyse the psyche of Job in The Book of Job.
Or
(ii) Critically analyse the sonnet “Being Myself Captivated Here”.
(c) (i) Is Faustus misled by the devils, or is he willfully blind to the reality of his situation? Analyse.
Or
(ii) How does Marlowe use the comic characters to illuminate Faustus’s decline?
(d) (i) In Every Man in His Humour, Jonson’s characters are consistent from their first appearance to their last. Justify.
Or
(ii) Every Man in His Humour conforms to the art of classical comedy. Elaborate.
4. Critically examine the following passage in about 100 words : (1 × 5 = 5)
It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully
excluded. This exponent or symbol held forth by metrical language must in different eras of literature have excited very different expectations: for example, in the age of Catullus, Terence and Lucretius and that of Statius or Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes to his reader: but it will undoubtedly appear to many persons that I have not fulfilled the terms of an engagement thus voluntarily contracted. They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane
phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will, no doubt, frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and awkwardness: they will look round for poetry and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be
permitted to assume that title. I hope therefore the reader will not censure me for attempting to state what I have proposed to myself to perform; and also (as far as the limits of a preface will permit) to explain some of the chief reasons which have determined me in the choice of my purpose: that at least he may be spared any unpleasant feeling of disappointment and that I myself may be protected from one of the most dishonourable accusations which can be brought against an Author, namely, that of an indolence which prevents him from endeavoring to ascertain what is his duty, or, when his duty is ascertained, prevents him from performing it.
University: Madras University
Subject: THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Course: B.A English
Question Paper Code: U/ID 4023/NRJ
Exam Year: May 2013
Time: 03 hours
Maximum Marks: 100
MAY 2013 U/ID 4023/NRJ
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
1. Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 30 words each, choosing not more than Two
from each Group : (5 × 2 = 10)
GROUP A
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(a) A man that is young in years may be Old in hours, if he have lost no time.
(b) It is generally better to deal by speech Than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man’s self
(c) If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of Humanity?
Why have you made me your target?
Why have I become a burden to you?
GROUP B
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(d) Shall I compare Thee to a summer’s day? Thou artmore lovely and more temperate
(e) Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.
(f) Of force of heavenly beams infusing Hellish pain Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair Storms, and freezing fires.
GROUP C
Fix the context and explain the meaning of the passage.
(g) Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss:
Her lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!
Come Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena !
(h) Ah Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
(i) Hang sorrow! care’ll kill a cat.
2. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following questions in about 100 words each, choosing
atleast Two from each group : (5 × 5 = 25)
GROUP A
(a) What are Bacon’s views on Youth and Age?
(b) Sketch the character of Job.
(c) Give a brief account of the appeal made by Donne to God.
(d) Summarize Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.
GROUP B
(e) Discuss the role of Faustus’s soliloquies. How does Faustus use the magical gifts that he receives?
(f) Sketch the character of Robin.
(g) What does Jonson mean by “Comedy of Humours?”
(h) Explain the significance of Lucifer’s role in Dr. Faustus.
3. Answer the following questions about 300 words each : (4 × 15 = 60)
(a) (i) Bring out the philosophy of Bacon found in his ‘‘On Masques Triumphs’’.
Or
(ii) Justify Bacon is an essayist of worldly wisdom with special reference to the essays prescribed.
U/ID 4023/NRJ
(b) (i) Analyse the psyche of Job in The Book of Job.
Or
(ii) Critically analyse the sonnet “Being Myself Captivated Here”.
(c) (i) Is Faustus misled by the devils, or is he willfully blind to the reality of his situation? Analyse.
Or
(ii) How does Marlowe use the comic characters to illuminate Faustus’s decline?
(d) (i) In Every Man in His Humour, Jonson’s characters are consistent from their first appearance to their last. Justify.
Or
(ii) Every Man in His Humour conforms to the art of classical comedy. Elaborate.
4. Critically examine the following passage in about 100 words : (1 × 5 = 5)
It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully
excluded. This exponent or symbol held forth by metrical language must in different eras of literature have excited very different expectations: for example, in the age of Catullus, Terence and Lucretius and that of Statius or Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes to his reader: but it will undoubtedly appear to many persons that I have not fulfilled the terms of an engagement thus voluntarily contracted. They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane
phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will, no doubt, frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and awkwardness: they will look round for poetry and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be
permitted to assume that title. I hope therefore the reader will not censure me for attempting to state what I have proposed to myself to perform; and also (as far as the limits of a preface will permit) to explain some of the chief reasons which have determined me in the choice of my purpose: that at least he may be spared any unpleasant feeling of disappointment and that I myself may be protected from one of the most dishonourable accusations which can be brought against an Author, namely, that of an indolence which prevents him from endeavoring to ascertain what is his duty, or, when his duty is ascertained, prevents him from performing it.
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