W.B.C.S Main 2002 Optional Question Paper English Literature.

W.B.C.S Main 2002 Optional Question Paper English- PAPER -1

1.  Answer any one of the following.Continue Reading W.B.C.S Main 2002 Optional Question Paper English Literature.

(a)  Write a short essay on the “romantic” element in the literature of the early 19th century.

(b)  Clearly analyse Wordsworth’s love for Nature with close reference to the major poetry of the poet.

(c)  Write a note on Tennyson’s attitude to life and death, giving suitable examples from his work of note.

(d)  Examine the major trends in the war poetry of the poets of the First World War.

2.  Answer any one of the following :-

(a)  By the middle of the nineteenth century “Victorian drama becomes more sophisticated, more technically accomplished and concerned with moral problems, more dclicated and more contem- porary than those dealt with in nineteenth century melodrama.”

Discuss the incorporation of the new trends with close reference to the work of any 6ne author of the mid nineteenth century.

(b)  Write a note on the absurd drama with close reference to the work of any one exponent.

(c)  Consider the importance of either George Bernard Shaw or Tohn Galsworthy to the prose drama in English the early part of the 20th century.

3.  Answer any one of the following :-

(a)  Charles Dickens has often been called “a representative of his age”. Discuss the credibility of the given statement with reference to any two of his novels.

(b)  Some of the writers of the Victorian novel exploited the traditions of the Gothic Romance. Select any one and discuss with reference to the above comment.

(c) Write a short note on the Women novelists of the Victorian Era. choosing one from the early part of the age and the second from the later part of the age.

4.  Give the substance of the following passage and add a critical appreciation of the same.

So shuts the marigold her leaves

At the departure of the sun ;

So from the honeysuckle sheaves

The bee goes when the day is done ;

So sits the turtle when she is but one,

And so all woe, as I since she is gone.

To some few birds kind Nature hath

Made all the summer as one day ;

Which once enjoyes, cold winter’s wrath

As night they sleeping pass away,

Those happy creatures are, that know not yet

The pain to be deprived or to forget.

I oft have heard men gay there be

Some that with confidence profess

The helpful art of Memory ;

But could they teach forgetfulness,

I’d learn; and try what further art could do

To make me love her and forget her too.

W.B.C.S Main 2002 Optional Question Paper English- PAPER -2

Group – A

1.  Write a short essay on the old English elegies and account for their enduring-appeal.

2.  What do we learn from Chaucer about the life and thought of his age ?

3.  Who were the important predecessors of Shakespeare in the history of English drama ? Select any two of them and indicate how : they contributed to the growth of English drama.

4. “Romanticism has been defined as the addition of strangeness to beauty’. Consider the definition with reference to the major poets of early nineteenth century.

5.  What is your assessment of the importance in the history of English literature of any one of the following :-

W.B. Yeats;   James Joyce;   G.M.Hopkins;  G.B-Show.

6. Write short critical notes on any two of the following :

(a) The faerie queen

(b) Metaphysical poetry

(c) Augustan verse satire

(d) Women novelists of the Victorian age

(e) Tom Jones

(f) Murder in the Cathedral.

Group – B

7.  “The French were the rich, the powerful and the refined classes”. Cite appropriate linguistic evidence to substantiate the remark.

8.  “Word – composition plays a very important part in English”. Illustrate.

9.  Write philological noles on any eight of the following :-

wine,   cheap,   heathen,   church,   sister,   starve,   they,   genteel,   puny,   perfect,   daisy,   mob, housewife,  gossip,  ache.

Group – C

10.  Can you say why Shakespeare’s protagonists in the Romantic Comedies are women ?  Discuss with special reference to either ‘Twelfth Night” or “As You Like It”.

11.  Is Macbeth a tragedy or is it only a play on the fall of a wicked man ?

12.  How do the soliloquies in a Shakespearean tragedy help in dramatic characterisation of man ? Illustrate.

13.  Attempt a critical assessment of any one of the following :-

(a)  the role of the Fool in Shakespeare’s Comedies
(b)  Witchcraft in Shakespeare’s plays
(c)  Shakespeare’s use of imagery
(d)  Shakespeare’s audience.

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