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6. PAST PAPERS
(Canterbury
(Wyatt)
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 comes
That comes to all.
(iii) My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
(Canterbury tales)
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.
(Canterbury tales)
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:
(Canterbury tales)+
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.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
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;
tales)
And when he rood men myghte his broydel heer
Gynglen in a whistlunge wynd als cleere,
(Canterbury
(Canterbury
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.
(Canterbury tales)
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.
8. YEAR 2010
(Canterbury tales)
9. YEAR 2011
(Canterbury tales)
(Canterbury tales)
(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
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
PAPER II - DRAMA
1. YEAR 2003
2. YEAR 2004
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 passages:
(i) Had I as many souls as there be stars,
I'd give them all for mephostophilis,
(ii) Be certain what you do sir lest your justice
Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer
Yourself, your queen, your son.
(iii) And yet I fear you, for you are fated then,
When you eyes roll so: why I should fear, I know not,
Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.
(iv) Ah! Dear friend
Are you faithful even yet, you alone?
Are you still standing near me, you will stay here,
Patient to take care for the blind?
The blind man!
Yet even blind I know who it is attends me,
By the voice's toneThough my darkness hide the comforter.
(v) Ah! I believe she is plain. Yes:
I know perfectly well what she is like.
She is one of those dull, intellectual girl one meets all over the place.
3. YEAR 2005
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 passages:
(i) The God thou serv'st thine own appetite.
Wherein, is fixed the love of Beelzebub.
To him, I'll build an alter and a church
And offer him lukewarm blood of newborn babes.
(ii) Let every man in mankind's Frailty
Consider his last day, and let none
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
(iii) There's some ill plane reigns:
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more favourable.
(iv) Dangerous conceits, are in their nature poisons
Which ..... with a little act upon the blood
Burn like the mines of sulpher.
(v) It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Brecknell, about
your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve all of his moral character. I
suspect him of being untruthful.
2. Discuss Marlowe's Faustus as an over reacher, drawing closely on the text.
3. What in your opinion is Oedipus 'hamartia' and what is its relevance to the play
Oedipus Rex.
4. How far would you agree that Shakespeare's Othello is a domestic tragedy?
5. "Shakespeare never did anything finer more serious more evocative of his full
powers that his picture of an earthly paradise painted in the form of English
countryside". What factors contribute to this picture of an earthly paradise?
6. In the play Othello I go is not a character of fiendish intellectual superiority. He
has been used by Shakespeare as a foil for Othello's own weakness. How far would
you agree?
7. The play The Importance of Being Earnest has its philosophy "that we should
treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with
sincere and studies triviality". Discuss.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
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 THREE of the following passages:
(i) Ah, Faustus
Now has thou but one bare hour to live;
And then thou must be damn'd
Perpetually!
Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven.
That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul
(ii) Do not counsel me anymore. This punishment that I
Have laid upon myself is just.
If I had eyes
I do not know how I would bear the sight of my father,
When I come to the house of Death, or my mother, for I
Have sinned against them both
So vilely that I could not make any peace
By strangling my own life.
(iii) I had rather to be a toad
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For other's uses.
(iv) They call him Doricles; and boasts himself
To have a worthy feeding; but I have it
Upon his won report and I believe it;
He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter,
I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon
Upon the water as he'll stand and read
As it were my daughter's eyes and, to be plain,
I think there is not half a kiss to choose
Who loves another best.
(v) Yes, I felt instinctively, but I couldn't wait all that time, I hate waiting even five
minutes for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I
know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite
out of the questions.
2. Do you think that hubris plays a significant part in the fall of Oedipus?
3. Does the speech by the Chorus in the epilogue do justice to the character of
Faustus?
4. How does Othello's imagination contribute to his breakdown?
5. Discuss the significance of language in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of
Being Earnest'.
6. Discuss the play 'The Winter's Tale' as a tragic comedy.
7. Lago is more a catalyst who precipitates destruction that devil who causes it.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
5. YEAR 2007
6. YEAR 2008
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 passages:
(i) At a feast a drunken man maundering in his cups
Cries out that I am not my father's son!
I contained myself that night, though I felt anger
And a sinking heart. The next day I visited
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 THREE of the following:
(i) Forth from thy boards thrust me with all speed.
Set me within some vasty desert where
No mortal voice shall greet me any more.
(ii) Gentlemen, for that I know your friendship is unfeigned,
It is not Faustus' custom to deny
The just request of those that wish him well
You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece.
(iii) Work on,
My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
And guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!
My lord, I say! Othello!
(iv) I have considered so much, and with some care; so far that I have eyes under
my service which look upon his reservedness; from which I have this intelligence
that he is seldom from the house of a most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that
from very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his neighbours, is grown into an
unspeakable estate.
(v) Kindly turn round, sweet child. No, the side view is what I want. Yes, quite as I
expected. There are distinct social possibilities in your profile. The two week points
in our age are its want of principle and its want of profile. The chin a little higher
dear, style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high,
just present.
2. The play Oedipus Rex ends leaving our vision of Oedipus as a commanding figure
very much intact. Discuss.
3. How far do you agree that Faustus's behaviour after he sells his soul hardly rises
to the level of true wickedness.
4. Iago is considered as 'no great devil' he represents an ordinary, average, little
man. Express your views.
5. Discuss the role of Divine Intervention in the play 'The Winter's Tale' especially
the miracle scene and the Delphic oracle.
6. Use examples drawn from the play Importance of Being Earnest to show how
Algeron uses aesthetic principles to transform his life into a work of art.
7. Is Desdemona simply a passive fool? Is her virtue tantamount to idiocy? Or can
she be conceived of as strong and even valient. What are your views and why?
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
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 THREE of the following passages:
(i) It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood:
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light and then put out the light.
(ii) London society is full of women of the highest
Birth who have, no their own free choice,
Remained thirty five for years.
(iii) Forth from the borders thrust me with all speed,
Set me within some vasty desert where
No mortal voice shall greet me any more.
(iv) Thou dearest Perdita.
With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not,
The mirth of the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,
Or not my father's. For I cannot be
Mine own, nor anything to any, if
I be not thine.
(v) Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,
And then return to Hellana for a kiss.
O thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars,
Brighter than thou as flaming jupitar
And none but thou shalt be my Paramour.
2. The play Oedipus by Sophocles is very ironical in that it endorses the theme of
free will as well as predestination. We eventually come to realize that man is free
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 THREE of the following passages:
(i) Yea, what remains to see,
Or what to love, or hear,
With any touch of joy?
Lead me away, my friends, with utmost speed,
Of all men most accursed,
Most hateful to the Gods.
(ii) Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done?
Damned art thou, Faustus, damned; despair and die!
Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice
Says "Faustus come! thine hour is almost come!"
And Faustus now will come to do the right.
(iii) Whilst I remember
Her and her virtues, I cannot forget
My blemishes in them, and so still think of
The wrong I did myself; which was so much,
That heirless it hath made my kingdom and
Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
Bred his hopes out of.
(iv) Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? Was not aware of the
Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his
morbidity.
(v) Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will be come:
Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:
Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:
It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,
And fix most firm they resolution.
2. Does it seem fair for Oedipus to call himself "the worst of men"? Why or why not?
3. Note the appearance of Helen of Troy Sc.12. What role does she play in the
drama of Faustus's damnation? What does her presence suggest about Marlow's
attitude toward women?
4. Explore the character of Desdemona. What does she represent in the play?
5. What possible explanation can we provide for Leontes' sudden onset of jealousy?
Has Leontes completely lost his mind, or is there some strange "rationale" at work
in Leontes's mind?
6. Using three examples drawn from the play, show how algernon uses Wilde's
aesthetic principles to transform his life into a work of art.
7. The Winter's Tale is classified as a romance but some have said that this
classification is misleading. Do you feel the play should be classified as a tragedy
and, if so, why?
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
2. YEAR 2004
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. The larger subject in Pride and Prejudice is human nature. Elaborate this with
reference to the two main characters - Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.
2. How far may Hardy's The Return of the Native be described as a study in
disillusionment?
3. Discuss the manner in which Anthony Trollope contextualizes the broad historical,
technological and social concerns of his times in Bar Chester Towers.
4. Write a detailed comment on Anthony Trollope's art of characterization in the light
of R.H. Hutton's observation that ---- 'Everybody in Mr. Trollope is more or less under
pressure swayed lither and thither by opposite attractions assailed on this side and
that by the strategy of rivals.'
5. Trace the development of Adam Bede's self-realization through a process of
emotional turmoil within him.
6. Discuss the symbolic treatment of La Guillotine by Dicken's in "A Tale of Two
Cities" to convey the violence and bloodshed of the French Revolution.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics:
(i) Nature as a Backdrop in Hardy's Novels
(ii) Jane Austen's Stylistic Technique
(iii) A Tale of Two Cites as Historical Fiction
(iv) George Eliot's Narrative Technique
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
3. YEAR 2005
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Faithful observation, personal detachment and a fine sense of ironic comedy are
among Jane Austen's chief characteristics as a writer.
2. Trollope preferred to describe his characters before showing them in action and
sometimes his initial descriptions of them are more interesting than their own
subsequent bahaviour. Discuss.
3. The character of Adam Bede is built up from the firm foundation of Native
Sagacity and an indomitable sense of justice. Comment.
4. Unlike Hetty, Adam Bede is a man we are called upon to understand in depth;
where she is static and bewildered, he is evolving and aware.
5. Symbolism leads additional meanings to those which are apparent on the
surface. Discuss with special reference to A Tale of Two Cities.
6. Through a series of events over which Clym has very little control, he come to
feel responsible for the deaths of his mother and wife. Discuss.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics:
(i) Jane Austen's Limited Range
(ii) Trollope's Art of Characterization
(iii) Edgon Heath symbolizes the whole cosmic order in which man is but an
insignificant particle
(iv) There was a revolution in the life of Dickens which corresponds to the external
revolution.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
4. YEAR 2006
5. YEAR 2007
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Irony is the most effective weapon Jane Austen has in her arsenal. Discuss.
2. With her seductive charms Signora Neroni loves to put the male romanticism to
shame. Discuss with special reference to Barchester Towers.
3. A Tale of Two Cities is the story of conflict of interests and clash of characters.
Discuss.
6. YEAR 2008
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens heightens the underlying meaning of Novel
through his sophisticated use of irony. Discuss.
2. Why is Trollope known as Male Jane Austen? Explain
3. "Hardy's minor characters are grouped together without being fully
individualized". Discuss.
4. Hardy related human disasters to weakness and lack of will. He is not a fatalist.
Discuss.
5. Jane Austen develops and then releases the antagonism between Elizabeth and
Darcy in such a way that they themselves are made to realize the folly of their pride
and their prejudice. Discuss.
6. Adam Bede reflects George Eliot's psychological insight into human character and
motives. Discuss.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics:
(i) Trollope's Art of Characterization
(ii) Jane Austen's Humour and Style
(iii) George Eliot's Art of Novel Writing
(iv) Autobiographical Element in A Tale of Two Cities
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
7. YEAR 2009
8. YEAR 2010
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. "George Eliot's Adam Bede is nothing but Adam's growth to maturity through a
process of suffering". Substantiate.
2. "Pride and Prejudice is simultaneously high comedy, devastating satire and
compassionate panorama". Critically comment.
3. "Trollope's Barchester Towers is a picture of common life enlivened by humour
and sweetened by pathos." Substantiate.
4. Critically examine the significance of Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardy's Return of
the Native.
5. Examine in detail the picaresque elements in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
6. Critically evaluate how Jane Austen has integrated social concerns of her age in
Pride and Prejudice.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(i) Revival of Twentieth Century Interest in Trollope
(ii) The Rendering of Male Characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
(iii) Hardy's Pessimism
(iv) Dickens' Narrative Style
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
9. YEAR 2011
2. To what extent is Eustacia Vye responsible for the tragedy in Hardy's "The Return
of the Native"?
3. Describe George Eliot's art of characterization with special reference to Adam
Bede.
4. "Power and ambition are the key-notes in the novel "Barchester Towers". How far
do you agree with this point of view?
5. Discuss "A Tale of Two Cities" as a historical novel.
6. What role do superstitions, pagan culture and fantasy play in Hardy's "The Return
of the Native?
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(i) The Role of Nature in Hardy's "The Return of the Native"
(ii) The Role of Women in "Barchester Towers"
(iii) George Eliot's Morality
(iv) Theme of Social Justice in "A Tale of Two Cities"
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
PAPER IV - PROSE
1. YEAR 2003
2. YEAR 2004
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Bacon is more a man of the word than a philosopher in his essays. Do you agree?
Illustrate your answer.
2. Political satire in the first two parts of Gulliver's Travels is interesting as well as
instructive. Elaborate.
3. From your reading of Gulliver's Travels what impression have you formed of
Swift's attitude towards mankind? Would you describe him as a misanthrope?
4. Do you think Seamus Heaney has succeeded in making out a good cause in
favour of poetry in this post modern age of ours?
5. Do you think Bertrand Russell's proposal for the establishment of a world
government is desirable, or even tenable?
6. In how many ways have ideas concerned with moral and politics, according to
Bertrand Russell, helped mankind?
7. To how many classical English novelists does Edward Said refer in his introduction
to cultural and imperialism; in what context and a what purpose.
3. YEAR 2005
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. What idea do you form a Bacon's learning and scholarship and political views
after your study of his essays?
2. "Swift was the greatest satirist in an age of satire". Elaborate with special
reference to the first two voyages of "Gulliver's Travels".
3. Reproduce Huxley's basic contention in 'The Education of an Amphibian'.
4. Affirm or refute Russell's bid to justify the winning of happiness in this raving,
reeling age of ours.
5. Write a detailed note on Strachy as a Biographer. How did he improve upon this
art?
6. Compare and contrast between styles of Bacon and Swift.
7. Make a good case in favour of Huxley as your ideal prose writer.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
4. YEAR 2006
5. YEAR 2007
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Nowhere is Bacon so fascinating, so incisive, so personally involved as his 'Of
Studies'. Elaborate.
2. Swift's Travel to Laputa my or may not be stillbirth but it contains, the same flair
and the same flame as the rest of 'Gulliver's Travels'. Elaborate.
3. Even when theoretic and imaginative, Russell never departs from practicality and
empiricism. Elaborate with special reference to his Unpopular Essays.
4. What is the main crux of Edward Said's contention in his introduction to 'Culture
and Imperialism'?
5. Seamus Heaney not only theorizes but also illustrates and substantiates his
contention. Elaborate.
6. Swift is not a reformer but a demolisher. Discuss with reference to his works,
especially 'Gulliver's Travels'.
7. Russell's views on teaching and education have been of immense use down the
years. Elaborate with special reference to his Unpopular Essays.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
6. YEAR 2008
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Discuss Bacon as one of the important European philosophers. Produce evidence
from his Essays.
2. What are the literary techniques Swift draws upon to downscale man and his
achievements?
3. What are the practical difficulties in employing ideal teachers and how can they
be overcome? Discuss with reference to Russell's 'Unpopular Essays'.
4. What evidence does Edward Said produce to condemn Imperialism as an evil?
5. How does poetry, according to Seamus Heaney, redress social, economic and
cultural ills?
6. Discuss Russell's Essays in terms of their relevance to the development of human
beings in terms of becoming more practical and rational creatures.
7. Write a comprehensive note on Bacon's prose style.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
7. YEAR 2009
8. YEAR 2010
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Bacon claimed that he had taken all knowledge to be his province. Uphold or
reject this claim with solid arguments from his essays.
2. How far would the lot of humanity have changed if men had adopted absolute
rationality of Houyhnhnms? Discuss with reference to 'Gulliver's Travels'.
3. Can we check the social, economic and political decline if we succeed in making
our teachers impartial and neutral in the real sense of the word? Elaborate with
reference to Russell's 'Unpopular Essays'.
4. What does Edward Said men when he talks of the dominating and the dominated
cultures? Is it still the same?
5. Does poetry really balance and counterweight even in the present day world as
claimed by Seamus Heaney in his 'Redress of Poetry'?
6. Write a detailed note on 17th century prose, especially non-fictional.
7. Why is Bacon's prose style called aphoristic?
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
9. YEAR 2011
2. YEAR 2004
3. YEAR 2005
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. The novel 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison reflects the complexities of urban life. Illustrate
the statement.
2. Write a comprehensive note on the theme of Feminism as treated by Sylvia Plath
and Adrienne Rich in their poems.
3. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems:
(i) After the last Bulletin by Richard Wilbur
(ii) Melodic Train by John Ashbury
4. In Mourning Becomes Electra pat is synonymous with fate. Elaborate the
statement.
5. Discuss the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls as a critical analysis of the behaviour of
human beings under turbulent conditions of war.
6. Do you regard Abigail Williams as a victim or vamp. Base your arguments on
textual evidence.
7. Discuss the major themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
4. YEAR 2006
5. YEAR 2007
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems:
(i) Marginalia by Richard Wilbur
(ii) Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
2. Describe the main elements of modernity in the poetry of Richard Wilbur.
Elaborate with examples from his poems of your syllabus.
3. Discuss the main themes in the work of John Ashbury.
4. What is the symbolic significance of the title "Jazz" by Toni Morrison?
5. Discuss 'Mourning Becomes Electra' as a tragedy in modern sense.
6. John Proctor stands unique amongst Miller's creation not because of any inherent
superiority but because of the intensity of his moral response. Justify it.
7. Discuss Robert Jordan as Hemingway's tragic hero.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
6. YEAR 2008
7. YEAR 2009
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems:
(i) Melodic Train by John Ashbery
(ii) After the Last Bulletin by Richard Wilbur
2. Write a detailed note on the feminist themes in Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne
Rich.
3. Discuss the confessional element in the two Bee Poems by Sylvia Plath.
4. What is the symbolic significance of the title of Jazz (Toni Morrison)
5. Discuss O'Neil as a pioneer in the use of myths on the modern stage with close
reference to the play Mourning Becomes Electra.
6. 'Varied intense drama'. Justify this estimate of Miller's play The Crucible.
7. Can Hemingway be discussed as being sentimentally obsessed with violence.
Discuss with close reference to the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
8. YEAR 2010
Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. The most forceful theme can be conveyed through the images in a poem.
Elaborate with close reference to a least TWO poems from your course.
2. Write a detailed critical note on Final Notation by Adrienne Rich.
3. Critically evaluate the poem Your by Sylvia Plath.
4. Discuss the character and role of Dorcas and Felice. By what particular devices
and effects does Morrison portray them in her novel Jazz?
5. O'Neil's Mourning Becomes Electra is a tragic melodrama of heroic proportions.
Elaborate.
6. Arthur Miller's The Crucible exemplifies his contention that tragedy is possible in
the modern theatre and that its proper hero is the common man. Discuss in detail.
7. Discuss Jordan's relationship with Maria in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Do you find Maria a convincing character?
Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar
9. YEAR 2011
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