2nd year

PART-A (20 Marks)

Answer all question (50 words each).

Q1. Name any two contemporary play writers of Shakespeare.

Q2. According to John Donne what is totally impossible to find in this world?

Q3. Why did the Duke not like the Duchess behavior in “My Last Duchess”?

Q4. Who informed the king Duncan about the victory of Macbeth in the battle?

Q5. How opening scene of Macbeth suggests the theme of the play?

Q6. Mention any Two major characteristics of Romantic poetry?

Q7. Give the definition of a “dramatic monologue”. Also mention the title of the poem which comes
under this category?

Q8. What is the attitude towards war in Arms and the Man?

Q9. Mention any two similes which P.B. Shelley has used in his poem “To A Skylark”?

Q10. Narrate the Biblical references mentioned in “Journey of the Magi”.

PART-B (50 Marks)

Answer five questions (250 words each)

Q11. Explain with reference to context:

Tell me where all past years are,

Or who cleft the devil’s foot,

Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

Or to keep off envy’s stinging.

OR

Whence is that knocking?

How’s it with me,

When every noise apals me?

What hands are here! Ha they pluck out mine eyes.

Q12. Discuss that Banquo’s Ghost is far more effective than Banquo himself?

Q13. Explain with reference to context:

She had a heart…. How shall I say?...

Too soon made glad, too easily impressed,

She liked whatever she looked on,

And her looks went everywhere.

Q14. Write a short note on any two of the following:

1) Ode
2) Simile.

Q15. What is Coleridge concept of nature? Does it differ with Wordsworth?

Q16. Comment on “Go and catch a falling star” as a metaphysical poem?

PART-C (30 Marks)

Answer any three questions (300 words each)

Q17. Critically evaluate the power “Silent Steps”

Q18. Attempt a critical appreciation of “The Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot.

Q19. Analyze wordsworths reaction to nature on his second visit to Tintern Abbey.

Q20. Write an essay on ‘the universality of Shakespeare’s characters’.

Q21. Write a critical appreciation of the poem “The Soul’s Prayer” by Sarojini Naidu.