DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
S.V. UNIVERSITY; TIRUPATI
Date:20 -09-2014
INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Dear Distance Learner
Hope you are preparing well for your forth coming examinations to be held during
October. 2014 onwards. You are already aware that the DDE has introduced interenal
assessenments (writing of assignments) from the academic year 2012-13 and they will be
evaluated for 20 marks for each paper. The University examinations will be held only for 80
marks in each paper.
Hence, herewith we are sending assignment questions for all papers of PG (Final)
course students who were joined in 2012- 13 Final batches. You have to write all the
assignments in your OWfl hand writing in a long size un ruled note book, keeping separate note
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accepted.
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note book.
1. NAME OF THE CANDIDATE
2. ENROLLMENT NO.
3. NAME OF THE COURSE & SUBJECT
4. PAPER TITLE AND NUMBER
5. HALL TICKET NO.
(to he written compulsorily)
Further, it is informed to all the candidates that the writing assignments and
submission is compulsory. Otherwise the candidates will forego the internal assignment
marks (i.e.,20) and it will not be taken into consideration for the subsequent years, if you fail
to submit now.
The completed assignment books are to be sent through Registered Post or
Handover in person to the address given below.
THE DIRECTOR
DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
S. V.UNIVERS ITY,
TIRUPATI -517502
Note: Submission of Assignments: Before last date of your examination.
Late submission of assignments will not be accepted and they will be summarily
rejected.
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To
All Students,
All Co-ordinators of Study Centers.
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DIRECTOR
M.A. ENGLISH FINAL — INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS- 2014
Paper I — DRAMA . FROM 16 T " CENTURY TO 2.0 T " CENTURY
1.
Annotate any FOUR of the following.
(a)
Thy looks when they to venue did ascribe, They
should have giv'n her twenty thousand cupids,
Such are they beauties and our loves I
(b)
These possess wealth as sick men possess fevers,
Which trulier may be said to possess them.
(c)
Why one makes lovers as fast as
pleases, and they live as long as
pleases, and they die as soon as
pleases: And then if one pleases
makes more:
(d)
Ay; I have been engag'd in a Matter
of some sort of Mirth, which is not yet
ripe for Discovery.
one
one
one
one
(e) For a little time the hungry hawk
Will only soar and hover, circling lower,
Waiting excuse, pretence, opportunity.
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(f) But this, this is out of life, this is out of time, An
instant eternity of evil and wrong.
(g)
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It wi.11 be a world of blood, of fury,
Of devastation, of each man striving
for his own hand in the end a world
wrecked back into barbarism.
(h) Anger. is .a bad counsellor, cast out anger.
Pity is sometimes worse; cast out pity;
But do not cast out mercy.
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2.
Write short notes on any FOUR of the following.
(a) V°lpone as a classical play.
(b) ,Significance of the interview with Robert de Baudricourt in St.Joan.
(c). Bernard Shaw's realism:
(d)
Renaissance element in Volpone.
(e)
Dramatic function of the Sermox in
Murder in the Cathedral
3.
(f)
Eliot's recurring use of the image of the "turning wheel".
(g)
Verse Drama.
(h)
Artificial Comedy.
Attempt any TWO of the following.
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(a) Outline the historical background of the play Murder in the Cathedral.
(b). Analyse the wit and humour in The Way of the World.
(c) Discuss Shaw's defense of the epilogue in the preface. What sort Of defence is it? Do
you agree? Why?
(d) Write a detailed note on the virtuous characters in the play VolpOxe.
4. .Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words.
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(a) The essence of irony is dilemma. Discuss the statement with reference to
Dr.Faustus.
(b) Critically examine Edward II as a historical play.
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(c)
What is the philosophy of life .Oscar Wilde propounds in The Importance of Being
Earnest?
(d)
Consider John Osborne's Look Back in Anger as a satire on the upper classes of
society.
(e)
Bring out the atmosphere of tragic intensity and pathos in the play Riders to the
Sea.
(f)
Rosencrantz and guildenstern are two commoxers, men -trapped by their costumes,
their language, and their characterless setting. Discuss.
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M.A. ENGLISH FINAL — INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS- 2014
Paper II— POETRY FROM 1830 TO THE PRESENT
1.
Annotate any FOUR of the following:
(a) All through my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul. All through my
soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth.
(b)
The dropping of the day light in the west. The bough of cherries some officious fool.
(c)
(d)
Glory be to god for dappled thing for skies of couple - colour as a brinded cow.
Why do sinner's way prosper? And why must disappointment all I endeavour end?
(e)
Astraddle on the Dolphin's more and blood spirit after spirit the smittives break
the flood.
That woman's days were spirit in ignorant good - will. Her mights in argument
until her voice grewshrill.
(f)
(g)
(h)
What are you thinking of? What thinking of? What?
I never know what you are thinking think.
We heard no loud complaint, no crying here no sound of grief except the sound of
signing quivering for ever through the etervalair.
2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:
(a) Symbolism and myth
(b) Post-war poets
(c) Theme of infertility
(d) Romantic poetry.
(e) Central idea of My Last Duchess
(f) Features of Eliot Poetry
(g) Georgin Poetry
(h) English lyric
3.
Attempt any TWO of the following :
(a)
Discuss the significance of the title 'The Waste Land'.
(b)
Identify and discuss Yeats's motor recurrent symbols and images with reference.
(c)
(d)
4.
Discuss the .qualities of Hopkin's poetry as revealed in 'Pied Beauty'.
Comment on the lyrical poetry of Browning.
Answer any THREE of the following in 300 words.:
(a)
What does Tennyson teach the masses in the poem 'Ulysses'?
(b)
(c)
(d)
Discuss the pessimistic note in Arnold's poems 'The Scholar Gipsy Shyrsis'.
Bring out the ship image in philiphankin's poem 'Next, Please'.
Consider Ted Hughes as a poet of War and death. Discuss with special reference to
the poems Thrushes and Pike. •
(c) 'Discuss the significance of the title 'Light Breaks where no sun shine, After the
funeral'.
(f) Bring out the imagery, concept and verification in Auden's poem 'In Memory of
W.B. Yeats'.
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M.A. ENGLISH FINAL — INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS- 2014
Paper III - AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF A POET: MILTON AND HIS WORKS
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following:
(a)
his hand was known
In 1-leaven by many a towcr'd structure high,
Where scept.red Angels held their residence,
And sat as princes; whom the supreme king
Exalted to such power, and gave to rule,
Each in h s hierarchy, the orders bright.
(b)
The happier state
In Heaven, which follows dignity, might draw
Envy from each inferior; but who here Will
envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to
stand against the Thunderer's aim, Your bulwark,
and Condemns to greatest share Of endless pain?
(c) Thou badst : whom hast thou then or what to accuse,
But Heaven's free love dealt equally to all? Be then
his love accursed, since love or hate, To me alike, it
deals eternal woe.
(d) "0-foul descent! that I who erst contended "With
goods to sit the highest, am now constrained "Into a
beast; and, mix'cl with bestial slime, "This
essence to incarnate and imbrute, "That to the
height of deity aspir'd; But what will not ambition
and revenge Descent to?
(e)
Her long with ardent look his eye purfued
Delighted but defiring more her flay. Oft
he to her his charge of quick returns
Repeated, she to him as oft engaged To
he retun'd by noon
amid the Bowre.
(f)
loss of sight! of thee I most complain! Blind
among enemies, 0 worse than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
(g) The sun to me is dark,
And silent as the moon,
When she deserts the night,
Hid in her vacant interhinar cave.
(h) This, this is he; safety a while,
Let us not break it upon him.
O change beyond report, though Is
Or belief.
2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:
(a)
Milton's style in Samson Agonistes.
(b) 'loathed melancholy'.
(c)
Optimism of Lycidas.
(d) Elizabethan masque tradition in Comus.
(e)
Milton's statement of his theme at the beginning of book I Paradise Lost.
(f)
Description of Eden in Book IV Paradise Lost.
(g) Difference of opinion between Adam and Eve about the propriety of Eve's
gardening alone in Book TX Paradise Lost.
(h) Satan's motive in tempting Christ in Paradise Regained.
3. Attempt any TWO of the following:
(a)
Comment on the speeches of Satan and his followers in Book I and IT of Paradise
Lost.
(b) Discuss Satan's arrival in Eden and his view of noble and naked dignity of Adam and
Eve in Book IV of Paradise Lost.
(c)
Comment on the fall of Adam and Eve separately as depicted in Book IV of
Paradise Lost.
(d) What counsel and consolation do the chorus offer to Samson?
4. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Write a crique on Milton's poem 'on his Blindness'.
Do you agree with the view that "fundamentally" Lycidas' concerns himself, king
is but the excuse for one of Milton's personal poems'.
Elaborate on the themes of 'mirth' and 'melancholy' in 'L' Allegro and Ii
Penseroso'.
What is the content of Book X of Paradise Lost and how do you relate it
to Book XI.
Comment on the way in which Milton concludes his lofty theme in Book XII of
Paradise Lost.
What could be the reason for Milton to make Jesus an oddly cold and stoical
character to a large extent devoid of warmer virtues in paradise regained? Justify.
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M.A. ENGLISH FINAL — INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS- 2014
Paper IV - INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following:
(a)
Another phase was reached when we
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
were twice attacked, and lost one way
He did not beat me
But my sad woman-body felt so beaten.
... Then ... I wore a shirt and my
Brother's trousers, cut my hair short and ignored My womanliness
He said:
the river has water enough
to be poetic
about only once a year...
Mr. Cousins put the questions in the his book whether the word 'renaissance'
at all applies since India has always been awake and
Stood in no need of reawakening.
(F) The spirit is a higher infinite of verities;
life in a lower infinite of possibilities which
seek to grow and find their own truth and fulfillment in the light of these
verities.
(g) "No chain to the throne can stand, neither the king's nor the people's if you do not
recognize it to be his A throne is no place for getting puffed up, but
r folding the hands in prayer".
(h) "We came to seek yuvaraja. we shall
never find him now".... "Nay, you have found
him. He is yours for ever now
2. Write short notes on any Four of the following.
(a) Use of mythology
(b) Themes in Indian writing in English
(c) Beginnings of the novel in English
(d) Women writers
(e) Urban life
(f) Indian renaissance
(g) Prose works
(h) Indianness
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3.
4.
Attempt any TWO of the following:
(a)
(b)
Examine Nissim Ezekiel's poetry as an attempt to know the truth about the self.
"The 'Voice' of Kam ala Das among Indian English poets is unique". Examine.
(c)
(d)
Attempt a summary of The renaissance in India.
Give a critical summary of the play Muktradhara written by Rabind.ranath Tagore.
Answer THREE of the following, the answer not exceeding 300 words each:
(a) Give your reason as to the intention of
Sri Aurobindo in connecting death and
(b)
dawn in "Symbol Dawn".
Attempt a critical summary of the poem
(c)
"Our .Caswarina Tree".
"The Discovery of India is wonderful
account of Indian history in poetic language".
(d)
Examine.
"Irony is a tool which R.K. Narayan uses to bring out humour in the novel
The vendor of sweets". Examine.
(e)
Attempt to examine'A Strom in Chandigarh as a political novel.
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M.A. ENGLISH FINAL — INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS- 2014
Paper V — AMERICAN LITERATURE
1.
Annotate any FOUR of the following.
(a) Then I chart it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
I bring thee a song that when thou must need come, come unflatteringly.
(b) My own songs awakened from that hour,
And with them the key, the word up from the waves.
(c) It is one light which beams out Of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all
men.
(d) The true scholar grudges, every opportunity of action past-by, as a loss of power.
(e) I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come to it and begin over.
(f) Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a .sunny winter morning.
(g). And I have promises takeep
And milesto go before I sleep ....
(g) Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the
Sensible soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all thepoetic tones.
2.Write short notes on any FOUR of the following :
(a) The plastic theatre.
(b) Chorus character in The Great Gatsby.
(c) American Renaissance.
. (d) Naturalism.
(e) Expressionism.
(f) American .Jewish novel.
(g) Symbolism in American poetry.
(h) Democracy in America.
3. Attempt any TWO of the following.
(a) The basic theme of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is the relationshiy
between suffering and art. Discuss.
(b)
(c)
(d)
Examine R.W. Emerson’s “The American Scholar” as the intellectual declaration of
independence
Write a note on the skilful blend of fact and fancy, observation and imagination in
"Birches".
Can the process of poetic composition be retraced progressively in Poe's
"Philosophy of composition? What is the relevance and need for such an analysis?
Explain.
4. Answer any THREE of the following, the answer not exceeding 300 words in each.
(3 x 8= 24)
(a) Do you agree that Edger Allan's Poe's imagination is more morbid than healthy in
The Raven. Explain.
(b) The Great Gatsby's lasting significance derives from the extent to which Fitzgerald
recognized and grapples with some basic problems of the twentieth century.
(c) The Old Man and the Sea is "a representation of the life as a struggle against
unconquerable natural forces". Discuss.
(d) Consider Tommy Wilhelm in Seize the Da y as a typical American - Few
protagonist.
(e) Examine the dramatic function of Steve and Eunice in Williams 'A Streetcar
Named Desire.
(f) Consider the transcendental element in N.D Thoreau's Walden.
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