UPSC Mains ENGLISH-LITERATURE-PAPER-I 2019
28 Questions • 400 Marks • With Detailed Model Answers
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The English Renaissance and its impact
LiteratureHistoryCulture
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The characteristics of the Victorian Age
LiteratureHistorySociety
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The unique features of Metaphysical Poetry
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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The difference between a Burlesque and a Mock-epic
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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Novel as a moral fable
LiteratureNovelEthics
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Discuss the significance of the storm scene in King Lear.
LiteratureDramaShakespeare
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Comment on the diction of Wordsworth's poetry making a reference to the poems prescribed in the syllabus.
LiteraturePoetryRomanticism
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Show that Pope's use of the machinery of the sylphs in The Rape of the Lock heightens both satire and poetry.
LiteraturePoetrySatire
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In celebrating love as the supreme, the only thing in the world, Donne went to a new, twisted kind of hyperbole. Discuss.
LiteraturePoetryMetaphysical Poetry
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To what extent Milton justified 'the ways of God to man' in his Paradise Lost?
LiteraturePoetryTheology
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Do you agree with the view that for Wordsworth poetry was a philosophic exercise?
LiteraturePoetryPhilosophy
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In Memoriam is not merely an elegy but a philosophical poem too. Do you agree with this statement?
LiteraturePoetryPhilosophy
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Discuss Ibsen as a dramatist of realism.
LiteratureDramaTheatre
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Comment on forgiveness and freedom as the two keynotes of The Tempest.
LiteratureDramaShakespeare
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What is the theme of the poem?
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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What is the mood of the poem-one of hope or despair?
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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Give a critical estimate of the imagery used in the poem.
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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What does the poet mean by saying the following?
"Now round us spreads the watery plain-
Oh might our marges meet again!"
LiteraturePoetryLiterary Criticism
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What is the attitude of the poet towards God?
LiteraturePoetryReligion
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Man is utterly wicked, desperate, and imbecile as portrayed in the fourth voyage of Gulliver. Do you agree?
LiteratureSatirePhilosophy
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Most of our amusement in reading Pride and Prejudice comes from our being aware of differences between appearance and reality that go unperceived by the characters themselves. Discuss and illustrate this statement.
LiteratureNovelSocial Commentary
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Fielding is not as sympathetic towards women as he is towards men. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer.
LiteratureNovelGender Studies
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Comment on the socio-economic and political issues that Dickens takes up in Hard Times.
LiteratureNovelSocial History
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Discuss the predicament of the self in conflict with the social milieu in The Mill on the Floss.
LiteratureNovelSocial Commentary
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Do you find any similarity between Tess of the D'Urbervilles and a Greek Tragedy?
LiteratureNovelTragedy
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Critically examine The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an attack on the institution of slavery.
LiteratureNovelAmerican History
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Examine the role of determinism in Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
LiteratureNovelPhilosophy
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Do you agree with the view that Gulliver suffers from a sense of identity crisis?
LiteratureSatirePsychology