1. YEAR 2003
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.
1. Explain the reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages:
(i) And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also, to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served
"How like you this?" What hath she now deserved.
(ii) A bettre felawe sholde men naught fynde,
He wolde suffre, fro a quart of wyn,
A good felawe to have his concubyn,
A twelf monther, and excuse hym atte fulle.
(iii) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust,
This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And midst the stars inscribe Blinda's name.
(iv) ---Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee; yet unknown,
And me with thee had ruined; for with thee certain
My resolution is to die.
(v) If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken
Nor can die.
(vi) Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That come to all; ----
(vii) A visage stem and mild, where both did grow,
Vice of contemn, in virtue to rejoice;
Amid great storms, whom grace assured so
To live upright and smile at fortune's choice
(viii) So, let us melt, and make no noise,
No tears floods, nor sigh-tempests move,
'Twere profanation of your joyes
To twll the layetie our love.
2. The sonnet as a verse form usually expresses personal feelings. Discuss this statement with reference to the sonnets of Thomas Wyatt.
3. Discuss the Earl of Surrey's contribution to English Poetry.
4. Examine Paradise Lost as a Renaissance Epic
5. In his love poetry, Donne exhibits a more varied range of feeling than the Elizabethans. Moreover, his imagery, diction and versification are startlingly different. Discuss.
6. Why has the Rape of the Lock retained its popularity to this day?
7. Compare and contrast the Knight with Parson in the Prologue.
2. YEAR 2004
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages:
(i) "What may this mean? Language of men pronounced.
By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?
The first at least of these, I thought denied
To beasts, whom God on their creation-day
Created mute to all articulate sound;....
(ii) Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never come
That comes to all.
(iii) My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without sharp west?
(iv) What moved my mind with youthful lords to roam?
Oh! Had I stayed, and said my prayers at home
'Twas from my trembling hand the patch-box fell;
(v) Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost;
The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost.
(vi) Well liked by all and intimate was he
With Franklins everywhere in his country
And with the worthy women of the town
(vii) The faithful wife, without debate,
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither dish death, nor fear his night.
(viii) Since thou and I sigh one another's breath
Whoe'r sighs most, is crudest, and
Hastes to the other's death.
2. Give a detailed critical analysis and appraisal of any one of the poems of Surrey: On Wyatt's Death, The Means to Attain a Happy Life OR
Wyatt's most perfect poems are not, them, his most original in form. Discuss.
3. Draw a character sketch of Belinda as portrayed in the Rape of the Lock.
4. Who, do you think is responsible for the fall of Man Adam or Eve? Illustrate from Book-IX of the Paradise Lost.
5. Discuss the variety of Moods in which Donne treats Love in his love poetry.
6. Write a note on Chaucer's female pilgrims as presented in the Prologue.
7. Dr. Johnson remarked about Milton's Paradise Lost that "its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure". Do you agree?
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages:
(i) "What may this mean? Language of men pronounced.
By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?
The first at least of these, I thought denied
To beasts, whom God on their creation-day
Created mute to all articulate sound;....
(ii) Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never come
That comes to all.
(iii) My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without sharp west?
(iv) What moved my mind with youthful lords to roam?
Oh! Had I stayed, and said my prayers at home
'Twas from my trembling hand the patch-box fell;
(v) Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost;
The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost.
(vi) Well liked by all and intimate was he
With Franklins everywhere in his country
And with the worthy women of the town
(vii) The faithful wife, without debate,
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither dish death, nor fear his night.
(viii) Since thou and I sigh one another's breath
Whoe'r sighs most, is crudest, and
Hastes to the other's death.
2. Give a detailed critical analysis and appraisal of any one of the poems of Surrey: On Wyatt's Death, The Means to Attain a Happy Life OR
Wyatt's most perfect poems are not, them, his most original in form. Discuss.
3. Draw a character sketch of Belinda as portrayed in the Rape of the Lock.
4. Who, do you think is responsible for the fall of Man Adam or Eve? Illustrate from Book-IX of the Paradise Lost.
5. Discuss the variety of Moods in which Donne treats Love in his love poetry.
6. Write a note on Chaucer's female pilgrims as presented in the Prologue.
7. Dr. Johnson remarked about Milton's Paradise Lost that "its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure". Do you agree?
3. YEAR 2005
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.
(i) Fallen cherub to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering; but of this be sure
To do aught good never will be our task
But ever to do ill our sole delight .....
(ii) He settenat his benefice to hyre
And leet his sheepe encombred in the myre,
And ran to Londoun,
Unto seint poules,
To seeten hym a chaunterie for sonless.
(iii) Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins
Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins.
(iv) Or let these two, the themselves, not mee decay;
So shall I live, thy stage, not triumph bee,
Last thou thy love and hate and mee undoe,
To let me live, O love and hate me too.
(v) "O place of bliss, renever of my woes,
Give me account O where is my nobel fere,
Whom in thy walls thou didst each might enclose,
To another life, but unto me most dear:
(vi) All is possible!
Who list believe,
Trust therefore first and after preve;
As men wed ladies by License and Leave;
All is possible.
(vii) "Of the fruit
Of each tree in the garden we may eat,
But of the fruit of this fair tree a midst
The garden, God hath said, 'ye shall not eat
Thereof, not shall ye touch it, Last ye die'
(viii) And if some Lover, such as wee,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still Markus, he shall see
Small change, when we are to bodies gone.
2. In the 'Rape of the Lock' the metamorphosis of the epic gains full creative freedom. Discuss.
3. Write a detailed critical analysis of TWO of the following poems:
(i) Prisoned in Windsor
(ii) On Wyatt's Death
(iii) They Flee From Me
4. In waiting the 'Paradise Lost' has Milton succeeded in justifying the ways of God to men?
5. "Donne's Monarchy of wit was not a trick or fashion but one of the greatest achievements of the poetic intelligence." Discuss the appropriateness of this remark by Leishman.
6. What are the salient features of Chaucer's style? Illustrate from the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales".
7. While Satan of the first two books of the 'Paradise Lost' pleases the modern sensibility, Milton's concept of man-woman relationship does not. Do you agree?
(i) Fallen cherub to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering; but of this be sure
To do aught good never will be our task
But ever to do ill our sole delight .....
(ii) He settenat his benefice to hyre
And leet his sheepe encombred in the myre,
And ran to Londoun,
Unto seint poules,
To seeten hym a chaunterie for sonless.
(iii) Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins
Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins.
(iv) Or let these two, the themselves, not mee decay;
So shall I live, thy stage, not triumph bee,
Last thou thy love and hate and mee undoe,
To let me live, O love and hate me too.
(v) "O place of bliss, renever of my woes,
Give me account O where is my nobel fere,
Whom in thy walls thou didst each might enclose,
To another life, but unto me most dear:
(vi) All is possible!
Who list believe,
Trust therefore first and after preve;
As men wed ladies by License and Leave;
All is possible.
(vii) "Of the fruit
Of each tree in the garden we may eat,
But of the fruit of this fair tree a midst
The garden, God hath said, 'ye shall not eat
Thereof, not shall ye touch it, Last ye die'
(viii) And if some Lover, such as wee,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still Markus, he shall see
Small change, when we are to bodies gone.
2. In the 'Rape of the Lock' the metamorphosis of the epic gains full creative freedom. Discuss.
3. Write a detailed critical analysis of TWO of the following poems:
(i) Prisoned in Windsor
(ii) On Wyatt's Death
(iii) They Flee From Me
4. In waiting the 'Paradise Lost' has Milton succeeded in justifying the ways of God to men?
5. "Donne's Monarchy of wit was not a trick or fashion but one of the greatest achievements of the poetic intelligence." Discuss the appropriateness of this remark by Leishman.
6. What are the salient features of Chaucer's style? Illustrate from the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales".
7. While Satan of the first two books of the 'Paradise Lost' pleases the modern sensibility, Milton's concept of man-woman relationship does not. Do you agree?
4. YEAR 2006
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages:
(i) In all the possible wifne was ther noon
That to the offerynge before hire shoulde goone;
And if there dide, certeyn so wrooth was she,
That she was out of all charitee.
(ii) If they be two, they are two so
As stiffe twin compasses are two
Thy soule the first foot, makes no-show
To move, but doth, if the other doe.
(iii) O thoughtless mortals! Ever blind to fate,
Too soon defected, and two soon elate,
Sudden, these honours shall be snatched away
And cursed for ever this victorious day.
(iv) Space may produce new worlds; where of so rife there
Want a fame in Heaven that ere long
Intended to create, and therein plant
A generation whom his choice regard.
Should favour equal to the sons of Heaven.
(v) Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat.
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, that
All was lost.
(vi) Thou art slave to Fate, Chance
Kings and desperate men,
And dost with payson, warre, and sickness dwell,
And Popple, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thystroake;
(vii) If it be yea, I shall be fain
It if be nay, friends, as before,
You shall another men obtain
And I mine own, and yours no more.
(viii) The stately seats, the ladies bright hue
The dances short, long tales of great delight;
With words and looks that tigers could but sue,
Where each of us did plead the other's right.
2. What is major contribution of Thomas Wyatt to English poetry of the Renaissance? Discuss with reference to the poems you have studied.
3. Write a critical appreciation of any TWO of the following poems:
(i) Love That Doth Reign
(ii) My Friend, The Things
(iii) Wyatt Resteth Here
4. Discuss and illustrate the artistic method adopted by Chaucer in the portrayal of his pilgrims in the Prologue.
5. Milton conceived and executed the scheme of Paradise Lost in accordance with the principles of classical epics. Discuss.
6. Do you agree that in The Rape of the Lock, the mock-heroic element is not the dominant interest but the brilliant picture of fashionable life? Discuss.
7. Discuss Donne as a Metaphysical poet.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages:
(i) In all the possible wifne was ther noon
That to the offerynge before hire shoulde goone;
And if there dide, certeyn so wrooth was she,
That she was out of all charitee.
(ii) If they be two, they are two so
As stiffe twin compasses are two
Thy soule the first foot, makes no-show
To move, but doth, if the other doe.
(iii) O thoughtless mortals! Ever blind to fate,
Too soon defected, and two soon elate,
Sudden, these honours shall be snatched away
And cursed for ever this victorious day.
(iv) Space may produce new worlds; where of so rife there
Want a fame in Heaven that ere long
Intended to create, and therein plant
A generation whom his choice regard.
Should favour equal to the sons of Heaven.
(v) Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat.
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, that
All was lost.
(vi) Thou art slave to Fate, Chance
Kings and desperate men,
And dost with payson, warre, and sickness dwell,
And Popple, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thystroake;
(vii) If it be yea, I shall be fain
It if be nay, friends, as before,
You shall another men obtain
And I mine own, and yours no more.
(viii) The stately seats, the ladies bright hue
The dances short, long tales of great delight;
With words and looks that tigers could but sue,
Where each of us did plead the other's right.
2. What is major contribution of Thomas Wyatt to English poetry of the Renaissance? Discuss with reference to the poems you have studied.
3. Write a critical appreciation of any TWO of the following poems:
(i) Love That Doth Reign
(ii) My Friend, The Things
(iii) Wyatt Resteth Here
4. Discuss and illustrate the artistic method adopted by Chaucer in the portrayal of his pilgrims in the Prologue.
5. Milton conceived and executed the scheme of Paradise Lost in accordance with the principles of classical epics. Discuss.
6. Do you agree that in The Rape of the Lock, the mock-heroic element is not the dominant interest but the brilliant picture of fashionable life? Discuss.
7. Discuss Donne as a Metaphysical poet.
5. YEAR 2007
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts:
(i) If then his providence
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,
Our labour must be to pervert that end,
And out of good still to find means of evil;
(ii) By fountain or by shady rivulet
He sought them both, but wished his hap might
Find Even separate;
(iii) Ful many a deyntee horse had he in stable;
And when he rood men myghte his broydel heer
Gynglen in a whistlunge wynd als cleere,
(iv) Ful wel biloved and famulier was he
With frankeleyns over all his contree,
And eek with worthy wommen of the town;
(v) Thy beams, so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou thinke?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke
(vi) Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies.
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,
When husbands, or when lap dogs breathe their last;
(vii) The long love that in my though
I harbour,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence.
2. Discuss Wyatt as father of modern English poetry.
3. Discuss Chaucer's art of narration in The Prologue.
4. Explain and illustrate the remarks that Chaucer's whole point of view is that of a humourist.
5. On the basis of your reading Book I of Paradise Lost, bring out Satan's qualities of leadership. OR
Discuss Eve's character as it develops in Paradise Lost Book IX.
6. Discuss Pope as a satirist.
7. Discuss Donne as poet of love OR
Write a comprehensive note on Donne's use of conceit.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts:
(i) If then his providence
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,
Our labour must be to pervert that end,
And out of good still to find means of evil;
(ii) By fountain or by shady rivulet
He sought them both, but wished his hap might
Find Even separate;
(iii) Ful many a deyntee horse had he in stable;
And when he rood men myghte his broydel heer
Gynglen in a whistlunge wynd als cleere,
(iv) Ful wel biloved and famulier was he
With frankeleyns over all his contree,
And eek with worthy wommen of the town;
(v) Thy beams, so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou thinke?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke
(vi) Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies.
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,
When husbands, or when lap dogs breathe their last;
(vii) The long love that in my though
I harbour,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence.
2. Discuss Wyatt as father of modern English poetry.
3. Discuss Chaucer's art of narration in The Prologue.
4. Explain and illustrate the remarks that Chaucer's whole point of view is that of a humourist.
5. On the basis of your reading Book I of Paradise Lost, bring out Satan's qualities of leadership. OR
Discuss Eve's character as it develops in Paradise Lost Book IX.
6. Discuss Pope as a satirist.
7. Discuss Donne as poet of love OR
Write a comprehensive note on Donne's use of conceit.
6. YEAR 2008
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 Which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain only FOUR of the following with reference to the context:
(i) She leet no morsel from her lippes falle
Ne wettee hir fvngres in her sauce depe.
Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
That no drope ne fille upon hire breste.
(ii) Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs found out their way:
(iii) And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth rome,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And growes erect, as that comes home.
(iv) For ever curs'd be this detested day,
Which snatched my best, my favourite curl away!
Happy! Ah ten times happy had I been
If Hampton-Court these eyes had never seen!
(v) But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
To God or thee, because we have a foe
May tempt it, I expected not to hear.
(vi) And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, if I find my chief relief.
(vii) It it be yea, I shall be fain;
If it be nay, friends, as before
You shall another man obtain
And I mine own and your's no more.
2. 'The Prologue' presents a cross-section of Chaucer's contemporary society. Illustrate.
3. 'Donne's love lyrics spring not only from a strong and ingenious head but also from a passionate heart." Discuss.
4. What epic conventions does Milton follow in writing of his 'Paradise Lost'. Elucidate.
5. Pope described 'The Rape of the Lock' as a heroic-comical poem. What did Pope mean and how far did he succeed in his purpose.
6. Critically evaluate the style and major thematic concerns in Wyatt's poetry.
7. Write critical analysis of the TWO of the following poems:
(i) Prisoned in the Windor
(ii) On Wyatt's Death
(iii) They Flee From Me
1. Explain only FOUR of the following with reference to the context:
(i) She leet no morsel from her lippes falle
Ne wettee hir fvngres in her sauce depe.
Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
That no drope ne fille upon hire breste.
(ii) Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs found out their way:
(iii) And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth rome,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And growes erect, as that comes home.
(iv) For ever curs'd be this detested day,
Which snatched my best, my favourite curl away!
Happy! Ah ten times happy had I been
If Hampton-Court these eyes had never seen!
(v) But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
To God or thee, because we have a foe
May tempt it, I expected not to hear.
(vi) And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, if I find my chief relief.
(vii) It it be yea, I shall be fain;
If it be nay, friends, as before
You shall another man obtain
And I mine own and your's no more.
2. 'The Prologue' presents a cross-section of Chaucer's contemporary society. Illustrate.
3. 'Donne's love lyrics spring not only from a strong and ingenious head but also from a passionate heart." Discuss.
4. What epic conventions does Milton follow in writing of his 'Paradise Lost'. Elucidate.
5. Pope described 'The Rape of the Lock' as a heroic-comical poem. What did Pope mean and how far did he succeed in his purpose.
6. Critically evaluate the style and major thematic concerns in Wyatt's poetry.
7. Write critical analysis of the TWO of the following poems:
(i) Prisoned in the Windor
(ii) On Wyatt's Death
(iii) They Flee From Me
7. YEAR 2009
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts:
(i) Therefore, he was prickausour aright
Greyhounds he hadde, as swift as fowel in flight
Of prikying and of huntinge for the hare
Was at his best, for no cost would he spare
(ii) Seek not temptation then, which to avoide
Were better, and most likelie if from me
Thou severe not, trial will come unsought.
(iii) By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed
The first at least of these, I though denied
To beasts, whom god on their creation -- day
Created mute to all articulate sound .....
(iv) Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is these walls thy spheare.
(v) God shall the ravisher display your hair,
While the Fops envy, and the ladies stare;
Honour forbid; at whose unrivalled shrine
Ease, pleasure, virtue, all over sex resign.
(vi) Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
(vii) Answer him fair, with yea or nay,
If it be yea, I shall be fair,
If it be nay - friends as before.
2. Write a critical analysis of TWO of the following poems:
(i) Madam Withouten Many Words
(ii) The Long Love That is My Thought I Harbour
(iii) They Flee From Me
3. Discuss in detail Surrey's contribution to the development of sonnet form with reference to the poems you have read.
4. Chaucer's technique of characterization in The Prologue differs from character to character. Discuss.
5. Discuss Milton's style in Paradise Lost
6. Discuss the variety of Moods in which Donne treats love in his love poetry.
7. Discuss Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' as a satire on the manners and morals of contemporary English upper class.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts:
(i) Therefore, he was prickausour aright
Greyhounds he hadde, as swift as fowel in flight
Of prikying and of huntinge for the hare
Was at his best, for no cost would he spare
(ii) Seek not temptation then, which to avoide
Were better, and most likelie if from me
Thou severe not, trial will come unsought.
(iii) By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed
The first at least of these, I though denied
To beasts, whom god on their creation -- day
Created mute to all articulate sound .....
(iv) Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is these walls thy spheare.
(v) God shall the ravisher display your hair,
While the Fops envy, and the ladies stare;
Honour forbid; at whose unrivalled shrine
Ease, pleasure, virtue, all over sex resign.
(vi) Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
(vii) Answer him fair, with yea or nay,
If it be yea, I shall be fair,
If it be nay - friends as before.
2. Write a critical analysis of TWO of the following poems:
(i) Madam Withouten Many Words
(ii) The Long Love That is My Thought I Harbour
(iii) They Flee From Me
3. Discuss in detail Surrey's contribution to the development of sonnet form with reference to the poems you have read.
4. Chaucer's technique of characterization in The Prologue differs from character to character. Discuss.
5. Discuss Milton's style in Paradise Lost
6. Discuss the variety of Moods in which Donne treats love in his love poetry.
7. Discuss Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' as a satire on the manners and morals of contemporary English upper class.
8. YEAR 2010
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) As on great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv'd only to discover sights of woe.
(ii) One short sleep past, wee wake eternally
And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.
(iii) Then flash'd the living lightening from her eyes
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies
(iv) All is possible!
Who so believe,
Trust therefore first and after preve.
(v) Of twenty year of age he was, I guesse
Of his stature he was evene lengthe
And wonderly delyvere and greet of strengthe
(vi) The mean diet, no dainty yare
Wisdom joined with simpleness
(vii) Farewell happie fields
Where joy forever dwells: Hail Horrors Hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive they new possessor.
2. How far do you thin Pope's Rape off the Lock breaks free of the biographical and becomes a satire on the universal?
3. Compare and contrast Milton's presentation of Adam and Satan in Paradise Lost.
4. Write a critical analysis of TWO of the following poems by Wyatt and Surrey:
(i) Is It Possible?
(ii) Forget Not Yet
(iii) Wyatt Resteth Here
5. Critically analyze Chaucer's characterization of the female characters in The Prologue.
6. Discuss in detail Donne's metaphysical images in his love poems and their significance.
7. Discuss in detail some of the predominant images in Surrey's poetry.
8. Critically analyze Chaucer's characterization of the Ecclesiastical characters in The Prologue.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) As on great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv'd only to discover sights of woe.
(ii) One short sleep past, wee wake eternally
And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.
(iii) Then flash'd the living lightening from her eyes
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies
(iv) All is possible!
Who so believe,
Trust therefore first and after preve.
(v) Of twenty year of age he was, I guesse
Of his stature he was evene lengthe
And wonderly delyvere and greet of strengthe
(vi) The mean diet, no dainty yare
Wisdom joined with simpleness
(vii) Farewell happie fields
Where joy forever dwells: Hail Horrors Hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive they new possessor.
2. How far do you thin Pope's Rape off the Lock breaks free of the biographical and becomes a satire on the universal?
3. Compare and contrast Milton's presentation of Adam and Satan in Paradise Lost.
4. Write a critical analysis of TWO of the following poems by Wyatt and Surrey:
(i) Is It Possible?
(ii) Forget Not Yet
(iii) Wyatt Resteth Here
5. Critically analyze Chaucer's characterization of the female characters in The Prologue.
6. Discuss in detail Donne's metaphysical images in his love poems and their significance.
7. Discuss in detail some of the predominant images in Surrey's poetry.
8. Critically analyze Chaucer's characterization of the Ecclesiastical characters in The Prologue.
9. YEAR 2011
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No.1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) As virtuous me passe mildly away,
And whisper to their soules, to goe,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some, say no.
(ii) And use my life in quietness eacy dele,
Unknown in court that hath the wonton toys;
(iii) The faithful wife, without debate:
Such slees as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
(iv) Great chiere made oure fear us everichon,
And the soper sette he us anon,
And serve us with vitalle at the beste:
Strong was thy wyn and wel to drynke us leste.
(v) Oft, when the world imagine women stray,
The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way,
Through all the giddy circle they pursue,
And old impertinence expel by new.
(vi) All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit to yield;
(vii) Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem to cleere,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
2. Compare and contrast Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers.
3. Do you think that Milton's Paradise Lost meets with all the requirements of a successful epic?
4. Write a critical note on Donne's use of hyperbole and paradox in his poems.
5. Write a critical analysis of the following poems:
(i) The Sun Rising
(ii) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
6. Do you think that Chaucer's The Prologue still appeals to the modern readers?
7. Discuss the main characteristics of Pope's satire in the light of his poem The Rape of the Lock.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) As virtuous me passe mildly away,
And whisper to their soules, to goe,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breath goes now, and some, say no.
(ii) And use my life in quietness eacy dele,
Unknown in court that hath the wonton toys;
(iii) The faithful wife, without debate:
Such slees as may beguile the night:
Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might.
(iv) Great chiere made oure fear us everichon,
And the soper sette he us anon,
And serve us with vitalle at the beste:
Strong was thy wyn and wel to drynke us leste.
(v) Oft, when the world imagine women stray,
The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way,
Through all the giddy circle they pursue,
And old impertinence expel by new.
(vi) All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit to yield;
(vii) Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem to cleere,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods,
Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
2. Compare and contrast Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers.
3. Do you think that Milton's Paradise Lost meets with all the requirements of a successful epic?
4. Write a critical note on Donne's use of hyperbole and paradox in his poems.
5. Write a critical analysis of the following poems:
(i) The Sun Rising
(ii) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
6. Do you think that Chaucer's The Prologue still appeals to the modern readers?
7. Discuss the main characteristics of Pope's satire in the light of his poem The Rape of the Lock.
10. YEAR 2012
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) A voys he hadde as hath a goot
No bread hadde he, ne never sholde have,
As smothe it was as it were late y-shave
(ii) To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat;
Often have we known that seven-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale;
From a strong line about the silver bound,
And guard the wide circumference around.
(iii) Infernal world! And thou, proundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor, one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
(iv) It was no dream; for I lay broad awakening:
But all is turn'd now through my gentleness,
Into a bitter fashion of forsaking.
(v) With eyes cast up unto the maidens' tower
And easy sighs, such as folk drawn in love;
The stately sallies, the ladies bright of hue,
The dances short, long tales of great delight.
(vi) Than by her shadow, what she wears
O perverse sex, shere none is true,
Because her truth kills me.
(vii) Hast thou not wonderd, Adam, at my stay
Thee I have misst, and thought it long, depriv'd
Thy presence, agonie of love till now.
2. Discuss the main features of Wyatt's OR Surrey's poetry. Explain your answer with reference to their poems in your course.
3. "Chaucer presents a cross section of 14th century English society in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales". Elaborate.
4. Discuss "The Rape of the Lock" as a social satire.
5. What is Donne's attitude towards women? Discuss in detail with reference to his love poems in your syllabus.
6. Milton was Satan's party without knowing it. Support or refute the statement.
7. Write a critical note on the following topics:
(i) The Temptation Scene in Book IX of Paradise Lost
(ii) The Character of Knight in The Prologue
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following:
(i) A voys he hadde as hath a goot
No bread hadde he, ne never sholde have,
As smothe it was as it were late y-shave
(ii) To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note,
We trust th' important charge, the petticoat;
Often have we known that seven-fold fence to fail,
Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale;
From a strong line about the silver bound,
And guard the wide circumference around.
(iii) Infernal world! And thou, proundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor, one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
(iv) It was no dream; for I lay broad awakening:
But all is turn'd now through my gentleness,
Into a bitter fashion of forsaking.
(v) With eyes cast up unto the maidens' tower
And easy sighs, such as folk drawn in love;
The stately sallies, the ladies bright of hue,
The dances short, long tales of great delight.
(vi) Than by her shadow, what she wears
O perverse sex, shere none is true,
Because her truth kills me.
(vii) Hast thou not wonderd, Adam, at my stay
Thee I have misst, and thought it long, depriv'd
Thy presence, agonie of love till now.
2. Discuss the main features of Wyatt's OR Surrey's poetry. Explain your answer with reference to their poems in your course.
3. "Chaucer presents a cross section of 14th century English society in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales". Elaborate.
4. Discuss "The Rape of the Lock" as a social satire.
5. What is Donne's attitude towards women? Discuss in detail with reference to his love poems in your syllabus.
6. Milton was Satan's party without knowing it. Support or refute the statement.
7. Write a critical note on the following topics:
(i) The Temptation Scene in Book IX of Paradise Lost
(ii) The Character of Knight in The Prologue
11. YEAR 2013
Attempt FOUR questions in all. Question No. 1 is COMPULSORY. Each question carries 25 marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following stanzas.
(i) The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks
Safest and seemliest by her Husband saties,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
(ii) His - spear to equal with the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to the mast
Of some great admirable, were but a wand -
He walked with, to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle, not like those steps
On heavens's azure; and the torrid clime ...
(iii) That of her hir smylyng was ful simple and coy;
Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy,
And she was cleped mandame Eglentyne.
(iv) Goe, and catch a falling starre,
Get with child a mandrake roote,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Divels foot,
Teach me to hear Mermaides singing.
(v) For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew
And Ariel weeping from Belinda's flew
Umbirel, a dusty melancholy spirite,
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
Down to the central earth, his proper scene
Repaired to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
(vi) The long love that in my though I harbor,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence
Into my face presseth with bold pretence
(vii) Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain.
2. How far do you agree that Pope has successfully exploited the mock epic form to satirize the fashionable eighteenth century English society in The Rape of the Lock?
3. How does Chaucer create interest for the modern readers in the 14th century English characters? Elaborate your answer with reference to at least four of his characters in the Prologue.
4. How far do your agree to the statement that in Paradise Lost Milton has justified the ways of God to men? Explain you answer with arguments.
5. Discuss Donne as a metaphysical poet.
6. Write a note on the plight of rejected lover in Thomas Wyatt.
7. Write a critical note on the following topics:
(i) The Character of Eve
(ii) The Parson
1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following stanzas.
(i) The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks
Safest and seemliest by her Husband saties,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
(ii) His - spear to equal with the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to the mast
Of some great admirable, were but a wand -
He walked with, to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle, not like those steps
On heavens's azure; and the torrid clime ...
(iii) That of her hir smylyng was ful simple and coy;
Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy,
And she was cleped mandame Eglentyne.
(iv) Goe, and catch a falling starre,
Get with child a mandrake roote,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Divels foot,
Teach me to hear Mermaides singing.
(v) For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew
And Ariel weeping from Belinda's flew
Umbirel, a dusty melancholy spirite,
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
Down to the central earth, his proper scene
Repaired to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
(vi) The long love that in my though I harbor,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence
Into my face presseth with bold pretence
(vii) Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain.
2. How far do you agree that Pope has successfully exploited the mock epic form to satirize the fashionable eighteenth century English society in The Rape of the Lock?
3. How does Chaucer create interest for the modern readers in the 14th century English characters? Elaborate your answer with reference to at least four of his characters in the Prologue.
4. How far do your agree to the statement that in Paradise Lost Milton has justified the ways of God to men? Explain you answer with arguments.
5. Discuss Donne as a metaphysical poet.
6. Write a note on the plight of rejected lover in Thomas Wyatt.
7. Write a critical note on the following topics:
(i) The Character of Eve
(ii) The Parson
12. YEAR 2014
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following.
(i) Is it possible?
To spy it in any eye
That truth as oft as chance or die,
The truth whereof can any try;
Is it possible?
(ii) The mean diet, not dainty fair;
Wisdom joined with suppleness,
The night discharged of all care
Where wine the wit may not oppress.
(iii) Goe, and cathc a falling starre
Get with child a mandrake roote,
Tell me, where all the past years atre,
Or who cleft the Divels foot.
(iv) All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp, yet such wherein appeared
Obscure some glimpses of joy to have found their Chief
(v) Some secret truths, from learned pride concealed
To maids alone and children are revealed
What though no credit doubting wits may give!
The fair an dinnocent shall still believe.
2. Compare the Summoner with the Clerk in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer.
3. Discuss Donne's treatment of women in his poetry. (Donne's Poetry)
4. Discuss the significance of the supernatural machinery in The Rape of the Lock (Pope's The Rape of the Lock).
5. "Paradise Lost shows Milton as Christian Humanist using all the resources of the European literary tradition that had come down to him --- biblical, classical, medieval and Renaissance." Discuss. (Milton's Paradise Lost)
6. Compare and contrast Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers. (Wyatt and Surrey)
7. Write a critical note on the following.
(i) The Wife of Bath
(ii) They Flee From Me
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following.
(i) Is it possible?
To spy it in any eye
That truth as oft as chance or die,
The truth whereof can any try;
Is it possible?
(ii) The mean diet, not dainty fair;
Wisdom joined with suppleness,
The night discharged of all care
Where wine the wit may not oppress.
(iii) Goe, and cathc a falling starre
Get with child a mandrake roote,
Tell me, where all the past years atre,
Or who cleft the Divels foot.
(iv) All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp, yet such wherein appeared
Obscure some glimpses of joy to have found their Chief
(v) Some secret truths, from learned pride concealed
To maids alone and children are revealed
What though no credit doubting wits may give!
The fair an dinnocent shall still believe.
2. Compare the Summoner with the Clerk in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer.
3. Discuss Donne's treatment of women in his poetry. (Donne's Poetry)
4. Discuss the significance of the supernatural machinery in The Rape of the Lock (Pope's The Rape of the Lock).
5. "Paradise Lost shows Milton as Christian Humanist using all the resources of the European literary tradition that had come down to him --- biblical, classical, medieval and Renaissance." Discuss. (Milton's Paradise Lost)
6. Compare and contrast Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers. (Wyatt and Surrey)
7. Write a critical note on the following.
(i) The Wife of Bath
(ii) They Flee From Me
13. YEAR 2015
Attempt any FOUR questions including question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following.
(i) And yet he was but esy of dispence;
He kepte that he was in pestilence.
For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special
(ii) He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;
Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend;
Some third the mazy ringlets of her hair,
With beating hearts the dire events they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.
(iii) In Battles feign'd; the better fortitude
Of Pafience and Heroic Martydom
Unsung; or to describe Races and Games
(iv) More subtle than then the parent is
Love must note be, but take a body too,
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love aske, and now
(v) But she that taught me love and suffer pain
My doubtful hop and eke my hot desire
With shamfast look to shadow and refrain
2. In the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales", Chaucer exhibits an unusual tolerance of human weakness. Discuss.
3. Discuss Eve's character in the light of Temptation Scene in Book IX.
4. Why is Pope considered a representative poet of the 18th century England? Elaborate your answer with reference to his poem "The Rape of the Lock".
5. Write a detailed note on the theme of love in Wyatt.
6. "Images can be used in two ways, as simile or as metaphor: simile compares, but metaphor feigns the identity of the objects". Is this definition application to Donne's poems in your course?
7. Write a critical note on the following;
(i) So Cruel Prison
(ii) Imagery in Donne
14. YEAR 2016
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain the following with reference to the context any THREE of the following stanzas.
(i) Bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss,
Tedious, unshar'd with thee and odious soon.
Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot
May joyne us, equal joy, as equal love.
Darkened so, yet shone.
(ii) Say why beauties are praised and honoured most
The wise man's passion and the vain man's toast?
Why decked with all that land and sea afford
Why angles called and angel like adored?
(iii) Wel loved the garleek, oynons, and eek leekes
And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.
(iv) If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet;
(v0 The secret groves, which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies praise
Recording soft what grace each one had found
What hopes of speed, what dreams of long delays.
2. With the Summoner and the Pardoner Chaucer loses the patience of tolerating evil in human existence. What is you point of view?
3. Do you find Satan attractive or repulsive? Draw on your reading of the text to prove your point of view.
4.. Pope exposes the follies of time in "The Rape of the Lock". Discuss with reference to the poem.
5. What makes Donne a metaphysical poet? Discuss with reference to your reading of the poems in your course.
6. Discuss Wyatt and Surrey's contribution to the development of English sonnet.
7. The Wife of Bath in "The Prologue" represents secular feminist poistion in the 14th century English Society. Discuss.
15. YEAR 2017
Attempt any FOUR questions including Questions No. 1 which is COMPUSLORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following stanzas.
(i) I from the influence of thy looks receive
Access in every Virtue, in thy sight
More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were
Of outward strength; while shame, though looking on.
(ii) Thrice he assayed, and thrice, inspite of scorn,
Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth; at last
Words interwoven with sighs found out there way:
(iii) Some secret truths, from learned pride concealed
To maids alone and children are revealed
What though no credit doubting wits may give!
The fair and innocent shall still believe.
(iv) Then by her shadow, what she wears
O perverse sex, where none is true but shee
Who's therefore true, because her truth
Kills mee.
(v) Stand who so list upon the slippers top
Of courts estates, and let me hear rejoice
And use me quiet withouten let or stop,
2. With the Summoner and the Pardoner Chaucer seems to lose patience with evil. Discuss.
3. Write a note on the use of metaphysical conceits and imagery in Donne.
4. What kind of a picture of the 18th century social life do we get in "The Rape of the Lock"?
5. Discuss the rise and fall of Satan in "Paradise Lost".
6. Discuss in detail the distinguishing features of Wyatt's sonnets.
7. Write a critical appreciation of the following poems.
(i) So Cruel Prison
(ii) Wyatt Resteth Here
16. YEAR 2018
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following stanzas.
(i) The long love that in my thought I harbor,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence,
Into my face preseth with bold pretence,
(ii) Wyatt restech here, that quick could never rest;
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain
(iii) A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boiler the chikens with the marybones,
And poudre-marchant tart and galingale.
(iv) If such affront I labour to avert
From thee alone, which on us both at once
The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare
Or daring, first om me th' assult shall light.
(v) Here for his enemy, will not derive us hence:
Here we may reing secure, an in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in heaven.
2. Write a detailed note on Chaucer's art of characterization.
3. Critically analyze Satan's character in the light of his speech in Book I of Milton's "Paradise Lost".
4. Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is a satire on the 18th century England.
5. How far would you agree that Samuel Johnson's statement that "in Donne's poetry heterogeneous ideas are yoked together" is a true estimation of Donne's poetry?
6. Discuss the main features of Surrey as a poet of English sonnets.
7. Critically examine the following.
(i) Prioress in Chaucer's Prologue
(ii) They Flee from Me
17. YEAR 2019
Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following;
(i) And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende.
The hooly blissful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan they were seeke.
(ii) Where, like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant banke swell'd up, to rest
The violet's relining head,
Sat we two, one another's best
(iii) Sudden, these honours shall be snatched away,
And cursed forever this victorious day.
For lo! the board with cupes and spoons is crowned,
The berries crakle, and the mill turns round.
(iv) What should I say!
Since Faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled
With doubleness?
Nay! Nay! mistress.
(v) Long after known in Palestine, and nam'd
Beelzebub. To whom th' Arch-Enemey,
And hence in Heav'n call'd Satan, with bold words
Breaking the horried silence thus began.
2. How far would you agree that Chaucer's characters are individuals and types simultaneously? Give examples from "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales".
3. How far would you agree that Milton was with the devil's party, without knowing it?
4. How is Belinda representative of eighteen-century elite society? What moral lesson do you draw from "The Rape of the Lock"?
5. What John Donne has tried to convey through his divine poetry?
6. Discuss the contribution of Surrey and Wyatt to English sonnet.
7. Critically examine the following.
(i) Temptation Scene in Book IX Paradise Lost
(ii) Canto I in The Rape of the Lock
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