Section A
Q1. Critically comment in about 150 words each on the passages, focussing on the context:
(a)
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
(W. B. Yeats)
(b)
I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
(T. S. Eliot)
(c)
But someone told me
he got two lines
in an inside column
of a Madras newspaper
(A. K. Ramanujan)
(d)
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters : how well they understood
Its human position : how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
(W. H. Auden)
(e)
Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
(Philip Larkin)
