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    *ED-2309*

    ED-2309
    M.A. (Final) Examination, 2021

    ENGLISH
    Paper - IV
    Modernist Literature

    Time : Three Hours] [Maximum Marks : 100


    Note : Answer one question from each Unit. Question
    No. 1 is compulsory. The figures in the right-
    hand margin indicate marks.

    Unit-I
    1. Explain any five of the following passages
    with reference to the context : 4×5

    (a) Glory be to God for dappled things—


    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded
    cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout
    that swim;
    Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’
    wings;

    DRG_11_(7) (Turn Over)


    (2)

    (b) The world is charged with the grandeur


    of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook
    foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of
    oil
    Crushed. Why do men then now not reck
    his rod?

    (c) An aged man is but a paltry thing,


    A tattered coat upon a strick, unless
    Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder
    sing
    For every tatter in its mortal dress,
    Nor is there singing school but studying
    Monuments of its own magnificence.

    (d) Hearts with one purpose alone


    Through summer and winter seem
    Enchanted to a stone
    To trouble the living stream.

    (e) “What is that noise ?”


    The wind under the door.
    What is that noise now?
    What is the wind doing?
    Nothing again nothing.

    DRG_11_(7) (Continued)
    (3)

    (f ) DA
    Datta: what have we given?
    My friend, blood shaking my heart
    The awful daring of a moment’s
    surrender
    Which an age of prudence can never
    retract

    (g) Let us not waste our time in idle


    discourse! Let us do something, while
    we have the chance! .... at this place,
    at this moment of time, all mankind is
    us, whether we like it or not. Let us
    make the most of it, before it is too
    late!

    (h) “Was I sleeping, while the others


    suffered ? Am I sleeping now?
    Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,
    what shall I say of today?

    (i) Monday can be flat enough, but in a


    different way from Tuesday, Monday is
    flat because one has been idling,
    perhaps unconsciously absorbing notions
    of living like the lilies; beacuse so
    many days must pass before the week
    ends; because yesterday is no more.

    DRG_11_(7) (Turn Over)


    (4)

    (j) With wednesday, the week stirs itself,


    turns over, begins to wake. There are
    matinees on wednesday; on wednesday
    some of the more genial weekly papers
    come out. The very word has a good
    honest round air-wednesday.

    Unit-I

    2. Evaluate G. M. Hopkins as a poet. 16

    OR

    Write a critical appreciation of W. B. Yeats’


    ‘Sailing to Byzantium’.

    OR

    Write a note on the imagery of ‘Easter


    1916’ by W. B. Yeats.

    Unit-II

    3. Comment on the poetic techniques used by


    T. S. Eliot in ‘The Waste Land’. 16

    OR

    DRG_11_(7) (Continued)
    (5)

    Attempt a critical appreciation of ‘The Fire


    Sermon’, the fourth section of the poem
    ‘The Waste Land’ by T. S. Eliot.

    OR

    Write a critical note on the theme of ‘The


    Shield of Achilles’ by W. H. Auden.

    Unit-III

    4. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’


    contains many biblical allusions. Choose
    three of them and discuss their significance
    to the themes of the play. 16

    OR

    Discuss ‘Waiting for Godot’ as a tragi-


    comedy.

    OR

    Describe the relationship between Jimmy and


    his wife Alison in ‘Look Back in Anger’
    by John Osborne.

    OR

    Discuss ‘The Birthday Party’ by Pinter as


    an absurd play.

    DRG_11_(7) (Turn Over)


    (6)

    Unit-IV

    5. Critically evaluate E.V. Lucas essay ‘A Door


    Plate’ or ‘The Town Week’. 16

    OR

    Discuss the prose style of Robert Lynd with


    reference to the essays prescribed in your
    syllabus.

    OR

    Critically analyse ‘Tragedy and the Whole


    Truth’ by Aldous Huxley.

    Unit-V

    6. Write a note on the themes of ‘The Train


    to Pakistan’ by Khushwant Singh. 16

    OR

    Harper Lee called her novel “A Love Story’


    Do you think this an accurate
    characterization of the novel ‘To Kill a
    Mocking bird’ ?

    OR

    DRG_11_(7) (Continued)
    (7)

    Critically examine the title ‘A Thousand


    Splendid Suns’ by Khaled Hosseini.
    ———

    DRG_11_(7) 100

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