Model Test Paper 2013 BA-III

English-I Poetry and drama

1. Write critical notes in two of the following a. Preludes b. Sea and the skylark c. Prayer for my daughter 2. What is the theme of DayaPawars Poem O Great Poet? Elaborate. 3. T.S Eliot in Prelude reflects not only sordidness of city life but also moral and spiritual devaluation of contemporary life. Elucidate.

4. Give the qualities of earthen pots in term of masses and the sense of loss attached to them as depicted in the poem Earthen pots 5. But I am not an Anglo my friend, I am a poet Evaluate the Poem Dont call me an Indo- Anglican in the light of this statement.

6. The poem stares is about a social problem and its solution.Discuss with special reference to the diction used by the poetess? 7. Discuss the appropriateness of the title Tuglaq. 8. What is the anguish and choice that the villagers have to make in the poem The Election.

9. What kind of a life does the father wish for his daughter in W.B. Yeats poem A prayer for my daughter? Examine and illustrate? 10. Write a character sketch of Tara on the basis of the paly Tara.