Section A
Q1. Comment critically on the following in about 150 words each, focusing on the context:
(a)
And the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
(W. H. Auden)
(b)
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table.
(T. S. Eliot)
(c)
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze pitiless and blank as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
(W. B. Yeats)
(d)
That how we live measures our own nature,
And at his age having no more to show
Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
He warranted no better, I don't know.
(Philip Larkin)
(e)
A beggar once came with a violin
to croak out a prostitute song
that our voiceless cook sang
all the time in our backyard.
(A. K. Ramanujan)
