1
10 अंक150 शब्दeasy
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
साहित्यकविता
2
10 अंक150 शब्दmedium
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
दर्शनसाहित्य
3
10 अंक150 शब्दeasy
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd :
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
दर्शनसाहित्य
4
10 अंक150 शब्दmedium
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.
साहित्यदर्शन
5
10 अंक150 शब्दeasy
Only the Egyptians had it right :
their kings had sisters for queens
to continue the incests
of childhood into marriage.
इतिहाससंस्कृति
6
15 अंकhard
Discuss the paradox in Yeats' idea, expressed in his 'Last Poems', that
world history was spiralling out of control towards an apocalyptic close,
yet it is not a matter for despair, but one for rejoicing.
साहित्यदर्शन
7
15 अंकmedium
“Personification of nature, allusions to Greek mythology and the
imagery of death - these devices dominate Eliot's poetry.” Elucidate.
साहित्यकविता
8
20 अंकhard
How do the best plays of the Theatre of the Absurd show in telling
images the alienation, bewilderment and frustrations of the Modern
Man?
साहित्यनाटक
9
15 अंकmedium
Even while depicting the modern man suffering from negation and
despair due to totalitarian rulers and war-mongering governments,
Auden speaks about an affirming flame of human connectedness and
concern. Elaborate.
साहित्यकविता
10
15 अंकhard
Did Larkin deserve the tag The Times gave him as Britain's greatest
post-war writer? Evaluate his merits and demerits as a poet.
साहित्यकविता
11
20 अंकmedium
Do you think marriage as an institution is critiqued in Osborne's Look
Back in Anger?
साहित्यनाटक
12
15 अंकhard
“It would be wrong to seek Look Back in Anger's politics in the content of
Jimmy's monologues. Instead, the politics is in their form: specifically,
in their passionate articulacy.” Justify this claim.
साहित्यनाटक
13
20 अंकhard
“Waiting for Godot is essentially a joke on the whole theatrical
experience, an extended invitation to the audience to get up and leave.
Nothing is going to happen, the play keeps telling us.” Discuss.
साहित्यनाटक
14
15 अंकmedium
Though Ramanujan, as an emigré poet, wrote about the home left
behind with a remote passion and irony, how relevant are his
experiences to a contemporary Indian in a globalized and
hyperconnected world?
साहित्यकविता