University : Gauhati University
Degree : M.A English
Question Paper Subject:English: Paper-IV
Question Paper Year : 2007
Question Paper Details : Previous Years Question Papers Types Version
(Non-Fictional Prose)
1. Answer any five questions from the following: 12×5=60
a) How important are Keats' letters for an understanding of his poetry?
From Keats' letters prescribed" in your syllabus, discuss some of the
philosophical and critical concepts which inform his verse.
b) Critically assess Arnold's views on poetry as discussed in his Preface to
Poems (1853).
c) Would you consider Addison's The Spectator essays to be representative
of neo-classical prose writing? Illustrate your answer with suitable
examples from the essays that you have read.
d) Would you subscri1?,e to the view that Lamb's essays suggest an
indifference to philosophy? Justify your stance from your reading of My
Relations.
e) Consider Virginia Woolf’s essay How it strikes a contemporary as a
modernist text in terms of theme, structure and style.
f) Discuss Tagore's idea of Nation as expressed in his essay Nationalism in
the West
g) Explore the neo-classical principles that shape Johnson's assessment of
Milton in Life of Milton.
h) How do the Victorian and Modern perspectives get articulated in
Chapter I and Chapter II of Russell's Autobiography?
2. Critically explain any three of the following with reference to the context:
4×3=12
a) "It is from the notebooks of the present that the masterpieces of the future
are made."
b) "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the
truth of the Imagination-what the imagination seizes as Beauty must be
truth-"
c) "But in retrospect, as I have grown older, I have realised more and more
the importance she had in moulding my outlook on life."
d) "They regarded the whole; we regard the parts. With them, the action
predominated over the expression of it; with us, the expression
predominates over the action!"
e) "I hate people who meet Time half way. I am for no compromise with
that inevitable spoiler."
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: 4×2=8
(a) Essay and letters as literary forms
(b) Russel's remembrances of his parents in Chapter I of his Autobiography
(c) Autobiography and Biography
(d) Lamb's portrayal of' his aunt in My Relations
(Old Syllabus)
(Non-Fictional Prose and Biography)
Write the answers to the two Halves in separate books
FIRST HALF
4. Answer any four of the following (in approximately 500 words each): l0×4=40
a) Comment on Bacon's style, assessing how it reflects the enlightened thought of
the day.
b) Comment on the significance of the story of Noah's Ark in the Genesis.
c) How well do Addison's essays capture the ethos of his contemporary society?
Give a well-reasoned answer.
d) Comment on the literary merit of any two of the biographies of poets by Dr.
Johnson in the Lives
e) How well do you think that. the expression 'Life of the mind' applies to Boswell's
Life of Samuel Johnson? Give a well-balanced answer.
SECOND HALF
5. Answer any two of the following questions 14×2=28
a) Characterize Charles Lamb as an essayist with special reference to the essays
prescribed for you.
b) Give, after Hazlitt, a portrait of Coleridge. Do you think that his appraisal of the
poet is just?
c) Evaluate Carlyle's estimate of Shakespeare.
d) "With all his telling irony, irreverent and malicious insight, and a keen eye for
human weakness, Lytton Strachey offered a portrait of Queen Victoria which
was in the main sympathetic"
Assess Strachey's portrait of Queen Victoria in the light 'of the above
remark.
e) Comment on the theme and style of Orwell's England, Your England.
6. Explain any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts:
6×2= 12
a) His youth was fiery, glowing, tempestuous-and in age he discovereth
no symptom of cooling. This is that which I admire in him. I hate people
who meet Time half way. I am for no compromise with that inevitable
spoiler.
b) Coleridge remarks very pertinently somewhere, that wherever you find a
sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there
is something deep and good in the meaning too.
c) His (Wordsworth's) genius was not. a spirit that descended to him through
the air; it sprung out of the ground like a flower; or unfolded itself from a
green spray, on which the gold-finch sang.
d) One of the most convincing aspects of the mystic illumination is the
apparent revelation of the oneness of all things, giving rise to pantheism in
religion and to monism in philosophy.
Degree : M.A English
Question Paper Subject:English: Paper-IV
Question Paper Year : 2007
Question Paper Details : Previous Years Question Papers Types Version
ENGLISH
FOURTH PAPER
Full Marks: 80
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
(New Syllabus)(Non-Fictional Prose)
1. Answer any five questions from the following: 12×5=60
a) How important are Keats' letters for an understanding of his poetry?
From Keats' letters prescribed" in your syllabus, discuss some of the
philosophical and critical concepts which inform his verse.
b) Critically assess Arnold's views on poetry as discussed in his Preface to
Poems (1853).
c) Would you consider Addison's The Spectator essays to be representative
of neo-classical prose writing? Illustrate your answer with suitable
examples from the essays that you have read.
d) Would you subscri1?,e to the view that Lamb's essays suggest an
indifference to philosophy? Justify your stance from your reading of My
Relations.
e) Consider Virginia Woolf’s essay How it strikes a contemporary as a
modernist text in terms of theme, structure and style.
f) Discuss Tagore's idea of Nation as expressed in his essay Nationalism in
the West
g) Explore the neo-classical principles that shape Johnson's assessment of
Milton in Life of Milton.
h) How do the Victorian and Modern perspectives get articulated in
Chapter I and Chapter II of Russell's Autobiography?
2. Critically explain any three of the following with reference to the context:
4×3=12
a) "It is from the notebooks of the present that the masterpieces of the future
are made."
b) "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the
truth of the Imagination-what the imagination seizes as Beauty must be
truth-"
c) "But in retrospect, as I have grown older, I have realised more and more
the importance she had in moulding my outlook on life."
d) "They regarded the whole; we regard the parts. With them, the action
predominated over the expression of it; with us, the expression
predominates over the action!"
e) "I hate people who meet Time half way. I am for no compromise with
that inevitable spoiler."
3. Write short notes on any two of the following: 4×2=8
(a) Essay and letters as literary forms
(b) Russel's remembrances of his parents in Chapter I of his Autobiography
(c) Autobiography and Biography
(d) Lamb's portrayal of' his aunt in My Relations
(Old Syllabus)
(Non-Fictional Prose and Biography)
Write the answers to the two Halves in separate books
FIRST HALF
4. Answer any four of the following (in approximately 500 words each): l0×4=40
a) Comment on Bacon's style, assessing how it reflects the enlightened thought of
the day.
b) Comment on the significance of the story of Noah's Ark in the Genesis.
c) How well do Addison's essays capture the ethos of his contemporary society?
Give a well-reasoned answer.
d) Comment on the literary merit of any two of the biographies of poets by Dr.
Johnson in the Lives
e) How well do you think that. the expression 'Life of the mind' applies to Boswell's
Life of Samuel Johnson? Give a well-balanced answer.
SECOND HALF
5. Answer any two of the following questions 14×2=28
a) Characterize Charles Lamb as an essayist with special reference to the essays
prescribed for you.
b) Give, after Hazlitt, a portrait of Coleridge. Do you think that his appraisal of the
poet is just?
c) Evaluate Carlyle's estimate of Shakespeare.
d) "With all his telling irony, irreverent and malicious insight, and a keen eye for
human weakness, Lytton Strachey offered a portrait of Queen Victoria which
was in the main sympathetic"
Assess Strachey's portrait of Queen Victoria in the light 'of the above
remark.
e) Comment on the theme and style of Orwell's England, Your England.
6. Explain any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts:
6×2= 12
a) His youth was fiery, glowing, tempestuous-and in age he discovereth
no symptom of cooling. This is that which I admire in him. I hate people
who meet Time half way. I am for no compromise with that inevitable
spoiler.
b) Coleridge remarks very pertinently somewhere, that wherever you find a
sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there
is something deep and good in the meaning too.
c) His (Wordsworth's) genius was not. a spirit that descended to him through
the air; it sprung out of the ground like a flower; or unfolded itself from a
green spray, on which the gold-finch sang.
d) One of the most convincing aspects of the mystic illumination is the
apparent revelation of the oneness of all things, giving rise to pantheism in
religion and to monism in philosophy.
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