Section A
Q1. 10× 5 = 50 about 150 words: The influence of Renaissance on Shakespeare's imagination. 10 1.
(a) Self-conscious structuring of images in metaphysical poetry. 10 1.
(b) The Preface to Lyrical Ballads and the notion of poetic diction. 10 1.
(c) Social life and the 19th century fiction. 1.
(d) Treatment of Nature by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy in their novels. 10 1.
(e) Answer all of the following : 2. Describe in detail the mock-heroic elements introduced by Pope in The Rape of 2.
(a) the Lock. Comment on the theme of appearance and reality in King Lear. 20 2.
(b) John Donne uses disparate images in his poems about physical and spiritual love. 2.
(c) Discuss with specific reference to Canonization and To his Mistress going to bed. Answer all of the following: 3. What aspects of William Wordsworth's poetry can be of special interest to Indian 3.
(a) readers? Can you offer an interpretation of the major characters and events in Paradise Lost 3.
(b) as metaphors related to conflicts in human consciousness? Sketch the character of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest in the light of the 3.
(c) larger context of freedom and imprisonment. Answer all of the following: 4. Can Tennyson be called a poet of the personal and evolutionary past ? Elucidate your 4.
(a) answer with examples from 'In Memoriam'. Compare and contrast the attitudes of Mrs Linde and Nora with respect to their roles 4.
(b) as women in A Doll's House. How does Alexander Pope make The Rape of the Lock a sophisticated poem in terms 4.
(c) of its structure and language? \overline2 m-esc-u-eng
