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EN4CO7 INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
TIME: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM
WEIGHTAGE: 36
I. Answer all the following questions in a word, phrase or sentence:-
1. What are the bubble-eyed water bugs perched upon?
2. What did the old poets sing about in the city of Madurai?
3. Who is Sophiemol in The God of Small Things?
4. Name the wealthy organ recipient in the play Harvest.
5. What does Ithaca symbolize in the novel A Journey to Ithaca?
6.Two Leaves and a Bud is set in the tea plantations of———.
7.What do the best poets wait for ,according to Nissim Ezekiel?
8.Who sits on the Casaurina tree early in the morning?
(8×1/2=4)
II. Answer any three of the following questions in a paragraph of 150 words each:
9. Wit and irony in the poems of Ezekiel
10. Theme of Final solutions.
11. Joya in Harvest.
12. Kari Sahib’s House.
13. Nostalgia in Toru Dutt’s poetry.
14. East-West Encounter in Journey to Ithaca
(3×2=6)
III. Annotate any three of the following:
15. Mayst thou be numbered when my days are done With deathless trees—like those in Borrowdale…
16. You fall back against her in the dumb light- Trying to learn something more about women.
17. The light of thy music illumines the world.The life breath of thy musicruns from sky to sky.
18. No, not only prophets walk on water.
19….you cannot believe, darling, Can you, that I lived in such a house and Was proud and loved…
20.O mother mine, I cannot stay, the fairy folk are calling. (3 x 2 = 6)
IV. Write an essay of 450 words each on any four of the following questions, choosing one from each section:
Section A
21. Discuss the elements of modernism in the poetry of Daruwalla,Ramanujan and Moraes.
22. Critically examine Rabindranath Tagore as a mystical poet.
23. Comment on the complex networkings of memory and desire in the poems of Toru Dutt, R.Parthasarathy and Kamala Das.
Section B
24. Discuss Harvest as a futurist play.
25. Critically comment on the plot of Dattani’s play Final Solutions.
26. Attempt a critical essay on the origin and growth of Indian English dramatic tradition.
Section C
27. Write a critical analysis of the characterization of Margayya in Financial Expert.
28.How does Arundhati Roy explore the contradictions of a postcolonial society in her novel the God of Small Things?
29.The central issue in Journey to Ithaca is not the search for identity of existence,but a “Search for truth,ultimate reality,beauty,joy,ecstasy or whatever form truth has.” Discuss.
Section D
30. Attempt a critical reading of Susie Tharu’s essay “Englishing Indulekha”.
31. Comment on Nehru’s philosophy as portrayed in his essay.
32. Critically analyze Nandy’s views on colonization as depicted in The Uncolonized Mind.
(4 x 5 = 20)
EN4E20 Postcolonial Poetry
TIME: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM WEIGHTAGE: 36
I. Answer all the following questions in a word, phrase or sentence:-
1.What does ‘interior’ refer to in the poem “Journey to the Interior”?
2.What does the title ‘Casualities” refer to?
3.Who is the woman with whom Kishwar Naheed does not want to identify?
4.What is the significance of Matisse in Lakdasa Vikramasinha’s poem?
5.Who is Nani?
6.What is the tone of’A Quiet Evening?
7.How are the clouds represented in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poem?
8.What is the significance of Harlem in the poem ‘New York’?
(8×1/2=4)
II. Answer any three of the following questions in a paragraph of 150 words each:
9.The meanings of arrival in E.E.Tiang Hing.
10.Symbolism in ‘Peacock and Nightingale’.
11. The intellectual quality of ‘A Letter.’
12. Architectural Imagery in Walcott and Ramanujan.
13. Landscape in ‘Laurentian Shield”.
14. The narrative voice in Allen Curnow’s ‘House andLand”.
15. Portrayal of Poverty in Hashmi’s “So What If I lived in a House Made by Idiots”.
16. Humour in Soyinka’s ‘Telephone Conversation’.
17. Natural Landscape in ‘South Country’.
18. Problems of aborigines in Davis’s ‘Aboriginal Australian”.
(6×2=12)