UPSC Mains ENGLISH-LITERATURE-PAPER-II 2025
8 Questions • 140 Marks • With Detailed Model Answers
(e) A beggar once came with a violin to croak out a prostitute song that our voiceless cook sang all the time in our backyard. (A.K. Ramanujan)
(c) On the basis of your readings of A.K. Ramanujan's poems, trace the elements of quintessential Indian ethos contained therein. Discuss.
(c) Discuss how modernism in literature experimented with language, form and style to represent the complexities of the then contemporary human life. Make use of the prescribed texts to substantiate your answer.
(c) In Waiting for Godot, how does Beckett use 'absence' to challenge traditional notions of time, purpose and meaning?
(e) Attempt a postcolonial reading of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.
(c) "Marxist analysis can be used as a tool to reveal the oft-hidden structures in literary texts." Analyse any two novels prescribed in your syllabus in the light of the above statement.
(c) Evaluate Raja Rao's Kanthapura as a critique of British colonial and imperial rule.
(c) Critically comment on exploitation and dehumanisation as brutal realities of industrialization with reference to Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.