Past Paper Classical Poetry 2009 | M.A. English Part I (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

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.