Past Paper Classical Poetry 2019 | 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 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