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Elective English
Part – I
Paper II (A)
Poetry:
Shakespeare
Essay-type Questions: [Marks 13]
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How has Shakespeare worked out the life-art contrast in the sonnets prescribed for you?
Trace the strain of melancholy in the sonnets of Shakespeare you have read.
Examine the imagery in Shakespeare’s sonnets prescribed for you.
How far has Shakespeare unlocked his heart in his sonnets? Answer with reference to the
sonnets that you have studied.
Attempt a critical appreciation of “Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”
(Sonnet № 65)
Short Questions: [Marks 3]
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“Increasing store with loss and loss with store”.
Bring out the underlying idea.
“O fearful meditation!”
What is the ‘meditation’ and why is it ‘fearful’?
“Haply I think on thee — “
In what situation does the speaker ‘haply’ think on ‘thee’? What is the result of the thought?
“All loses are restored, and sorrows end”. — When do these reversals take place?
Donne
Essay-type Questions: [Marks 13]
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Discuss Donne as a poet of love with special reference to the poems in your syllabus.
Bring out the metaphysical elements in Donne’s poetry with reference to the prescribed
pieces.
Attempt a critical appreciation of The Anniversary.
Would you call The Good Morrow a typical metaphysical poem? Support your answer with
textual references.
Short Questions: [Marks 3]
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“If our two lives be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die”.
— Why does the lyric speaker make such a claim?
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“Or snorted we in the seven sleepers’ den?”
— Bring out the significance of the allusion.
03.
“And then we shall be thoroughly blest”.
— When and how shall they ‘be thoroughly blest’?
04.
“Who is so safe as wee?” — Why is the speaker so confident?
02.
Wordsworth
Essay-type Questions: [Marks 13]
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Discuss Wordsworth as a poet of nature with reference to his Lucy Poems.
Compare and contrast the two ‘Skylark’ poems on your syllabus.
Attempt a critical appreciation of the Lucy Poem “Three years she grew in sun land shower”.
“The Lucy Poems are gems of simple, sensuous and passionate poetry.” — Do you agree? Give
reasons for your answer.
Short Questions: [Marks 3]
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How does the poet describe the beauty of Lucy?
Why does the poet cry, “If Lucy should be dead!”?
Who is characterised as “Type of the wise” and why?
Give the substance of “A slumber did my spirit seal”.
Shelley
Essay-type Questions: [Marks 13]
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How does the poet characterize the ‘blithe Spirit’ in To a Skylark?
Give an estimate of Shelley as a lyric poet with reference to To a Skylark.
How does Shelley describe the workings of the ‘Wild Spirit … … … Destroyer and preserver?
Show how Ode to the West Wind represents Shelley as a poet of hope and aspiration.
Short Questions: [Marks 3]
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“Teach me half the gladness”
— Whose ‘gladness’ is referred to here? Why does the speaker make this appeal?
Comment on “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”.
Why does the poet say — “Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is”?
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — How does the line strike a prophetic note?
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Paper III (A)
Short Story:
[Marks 12]
The Duchess and the Jeweller
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Why was Mr Bacon still a sad man and what was the bigger bet that he pined to win?
Analyze the character of the Duchess and her forged friendship with Oliver.
“I have won my bet” — What was the bet Oliver won? Describe his rise as a jeweller.
Comment on Virginia Woolf’s use of interior monologue in her short story The Duchess and the
Jeweller.
Ever Such a Nice Boy
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How did Edith overcome her homesickness?
Do you think Ever Such a Nice Boy qualifies as or fulfils the criteria of a short story? Give reasons.
Analyse the relationship between Edith and Mrs. Trumbull-Dykes.
Bring out the aptness of the title Ever Such a Nice Boy.
The Vertical Ladder
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Why did Flejg thrust himself up into the present precarious climb?
How did Flejg overcome his fears?
Analyze the character of Flejg.
Write a note on William Sanson’s narrative skill with reference to The Vertical Ladder.
A Dream of Winter
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Write a note on the imagery in A Dream of Winter.
Comment on the ending of A Dream of Winter.
Do you find irony in the title A Dream of Winter?
How is the bee-man portrayed in A Dream of Winter?
Essay
[Marks 12]
New Year’s Eve, Dream Children
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Discuss how Charles Lamb intermingles tears and smiles in his essays prescribed for you.
Analyse Lamb’s prose style with reference to his essays that are on your syllabus.
Attempt a critical appreciation of any one of the two essays on your syllabus.
Lamb is called ‘a visualizer of memories’. Examine the remark with reference to the prescribed
essays.
Why does Lamb rank so high as a personal essayist? Answer with reference to the texts on
your syllabus.
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Do you think that Lamb’s essays are the work of a man who has looked upon life with the
shrewdest and most penetrating eye? Substantiate your answer with reference to the essays
you have read.
07.
“In point of style Lamb is archaic, allusive and eclectic”. Discuss with reference to the
prescribed essays.
08.
“Lamb dwells for much in the prison house of the past”. — Discuss.
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Are Lamb’s essays that are on your syllabus mainly autobiographical? Argue your answer.
06.
Several Essays
[Marks 7]
Personal Style (J. A. Symonds)
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Briefly explain the meaning of the hackneyed epigram ‘Le style c’est l’homme’.
Why does Symonds think that when we speak of style we have to take into account those
qualities of national character which are embedded in national speech?
How, according to Symonds, do acquired qualities, faculties and habits find expression in
style?
Why does Symonds say that the abstract thinker differs from the concrete thinker in his
choice of terms?
What is Art? (A. Clutton-Brock)
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Explain — “There remains a conflict between our actual experience of art and our thought
about that experience.”
Explain — “There is a symptom common to all kinds of art which we call ‘rhythm’, and which is
really a symptom of this freedom”.
What is the relation between rhythm and content?
Why, according to Clutton-Brock, do men value art for its own sake?
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