P.S .G.

R KRISHNAMMAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

COIMBATORE.

SECTION-A (12*2=24)

Answer ANY TWELVE in a sentence or two:

1. What was the original title of TS Eliot's The Waste Land?

2. How is the Spring to the modern man in The Waste Land?
3. Who is Tiresias and what is his role in The Waste Land?
4. What is the meaning of water in The Waste Land?
5. Define Modernity in The Waste Land?
6. What does the term "Datta, Dayadhvam and Damyata" signify in the poem 'What the
Thunder Said'?
7. Who was Thomas Beckett?
8. Where has Beckett been before the start of the play Murder in the Cathedral?
9. In what year does Murder in the Cathedral take place?
10. What group of people does the Chorus consist of?
11. Who was King of England in Beckett’s time?
12. Name the four Knights who murdered Thomas Beckett.
13. What is tradition according to T.S.Eliot?
14. Who first used the word Metaphysical in English?
15. Why did T.S.Eliot write The Metaphysical Poets?

SECTION-B(6*6=36)

Answer ANY SIX in 250 words

Annotate the following:

16. April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

17.Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.

Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.

18. Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves 

Waited for rain, while the black clouds 
Gathered far distant, over Himavant. 
 19. For autumn fires and winter fogs?
What shall we do in the heat of summer
But wait in barren orchards for another October?
Some malady is coming upon us.
20. I have smelt
Death in the rose, death in the hollyhock,
Sweet pea , hyacinth, primrose and cowslip.
21. This is your share of the eternal burden,
The perpetual glory,
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

22. Write a paragraph on T.S. Eliot’s theory of impersonality.

23. Write a note on the The Metaphysical poets.

SECTION-C (4*10 = 40)

Answer ANY FOUR in 500 words:

24. Discuss the theme of regeneration and rebirth in The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.

25. Describe The Wasteland by T.S Eliot as a modern poem.

26. Consider Murder in the Cathedral as a Religious Play.

27. What part does the Chorus play in Murder in the Cathedral?

28. How does Eliot depict the social life of the 12th century in the play Murder in the
Cathedral?
29. Write an essay on T.S.Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent .

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