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M.A. (Arrear) DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
First Semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE – I
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all the questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What did the Yeoman carry with him?
2. To what does the groom compare looking upon his bride’s inner beauty in Epithalamion?
3. Under what conditions would the lady’s coyness not be a crime in “To His Coy Mistress”?
4. What happens to the “sweet and virtuous soul” in Herbert’s poem “Virtue”?
5. In Utopia what is the punishment for someone who commits adultery twice?
6. What, according to Mill, is liberty?
7. What does Isabella do before she kills herself in The Spanish Tragedy?
8. Why does Bosola agree to serve Ferdinand as intelligencer in The Duchess of Malfi?
9. What, according to Bacon, opens the gate to good fame, and extinguishes envy?
10. What does Bacon mean by theological truth?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) Describe the physical appearance of the Monk in Chaucer’s Prologue.
Or
(b) Bring out the significance of the refrain “Sweet Thammes run softly till I end my song” in “Prothalamion”.
12. (a) How does the sonnet “Death be not Proud” liken death to a proud but ultimately ineffectual tyrant?
Or
(b) Highlight the inner contradictions in Marvell’s “Definition of Love”.
13. (a) Discuss the status of women in Utopia.
Or
(b) What are Mill’s remarks of individuality?
14. (a) Comment on the role of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy.
Or
(b) How far are the Cardinal and Ferdinand ruthless villains in The Duchess of Malfi?
15. (a) What, according to Bacon. are the great advantages of simulation and dissimulation?
Or
(b) How does Bacon relate the concept of studies?
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. How does Spenser exquisitiely narrate a Christian marriage and a Christian ceremony in “Epithalamion”?
17. Examine Donne’s treatment of love in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”.
18. How do you look at More’s Utopian ideals from the twenty – first century consumerist dimension?
19. How does justice overlap with revenge, and how are the two different in The Spanish Tragedy?
20. Discuss the epigrammatic terseness Bacon’s essays from your study of the prescribed essays.
M.A. (Arrear) DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
First Semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE – I
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer all the questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What did the Yeoman carry with him?
2. To what does the groom compare looking upon his bride’s inner beauty in Epithalamion?
3. Under what conditions would the lady’s coyness not be a crime in “To His Coy Mistress”?
4. What happens to the “sweet and virtuous soul” in Herbert’s poem “Virtue”?
5. In Utopia what is the punishment for someone who commits adultery twice?
6. What, according to Mill, is liberty?
7. What does Isabella do before she kills herself in The Spanish Tragedy?
8. Why does Bosola agree to serve Ferdinand as intelligencer in The Duchess of Malfi?
9. What, according to Bacon, opens the gate to good fame, and extinguishes envy?
10. What does Bacon mean by theological truth?
Part B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. (a) Describe the physical appearance of the Monk in Chaucer’s Prologue.
Or
(b) Bring out the significance of the refrain “Sweet Thammes run softly till I end my song” in “Prothalamion”.
12. (a) How does the sonnet “Death be not Proud” liken death to a proud but ultimately ineffectual tyrant?
Or
(b) Highlight the inner contradictions in Marvell’s “Definition of Love”.
13. (a) Discuss the status of women in Utopia.
Or
(b) What are Mill’s remarks of individuality?
14. (a) Comment on the role of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy.
Or
(b) How far are the Cardinal and Ferdinand ruthless villains in The Duchess of Malfi?
15. (a) What, according to Bacon. are the great advantages of simulation and dissimulation?
Or
(b) How does Bacon relate the concept of studies?
Part C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. How does Spenser exquisitiely narrate a Christian marriage and a Christian ceremony in “Epithalamion”?
17. Examine Donne’s treatment of love in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”.
18. How do you look at More’s Utopian ideals from the twenty – first century consumerist dimension?
19. How does justice overlap with revenge, and how are the two different in The Spanish Tragedy?
20. Discuss the epigrammatic terseness Bacon’s essays from your study of the prescribed essays.
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