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St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous) St. Joseph’s College Road, Cuddalore – 607001

PEN704 – 20 th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE P

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Time : 3 hrs

Max Marks :75

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SECTION - A (5X2=10) Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 50 words each: 1. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. 2. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. 3. I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. 4. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one’s meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations. 5. They are inclined to be impatient to see if something can be done: and inclined to think that it can be done, until it’s proved otherwise. That is their real optimism, and it’s an optimism that the rest of us badly need.

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6. Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. We have been concerned in this volume with the part which depends upon oneself, and we have been led to the view that so far as this part is concerned the recipe for happiness is a very simple one. 7. I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy. 8. It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. PART – B (5X5=25) Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 150 words each: 9. How does Yeats communicate, by means of the falconer-falcon image, his philosophy of history? 10. Discuss Owen’s treatment of war in “Strange Meeting.” 11. Explain the point of reference to birds in the opening part of the poem “On the Move.” 12. On what account does Heaney regard the Tollund man as a deity? 13. How does Russell describe a happy man? 14. What is the dramatic importance of Godot in Waiting for Godot?

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15. Analyse the role of Overlord Karellen in Childhood’s End. 16. How does Woolf give us in William Bradshaw a brilliant and drastic picture of the professional man in Mrs Dalloway? PART – C (4X10=40) Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about 300 words each: 17. Examine the devices employed in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” to suggest that modern urban life is sterile and monotonous. 18. Show the inter-relationship between the bird and Christ in “The Windhover.” 19. Bring out Orwell’s analysis of politics and English language. 20. Discuss the nature of friendship between Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot. 21. How successful is Virginia Woolf in delineating the character of Mrs Dalloway? 22. Examine the character of Paul in Sons and Lovers.

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