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Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
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For I have known then all already, known them all :
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
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He was married and added five children to the population
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd :
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
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For you would hardly care
That you were less deceived, out on that bed,
Than he was, stumbling up the breathless stair
To burst into fulfillment's desolate attic.
5
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Sister-in-law
and I were rather blank, cut-outs
fitted to our respective
slots in a room
really nowhere as the two of you
got down to the floor to draw
blueprints of a house from memory
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Yeats' purpose was to write out the heart of the Irish common people.”
Comment on this statement with reference to some of the poems prescribed for
your study.
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To be conscious is not to be in time.” Comment on this line by Eliot from Burnt
Norton.
8
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Discuss Modernism as a literary and cultural movement.
9
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Analyse W. H. Auden's poetry as a fusion of the private and public worlds'.
10
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Comment on the themes and concerns in Larkin's poetry.
11
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The poets of the thirties expressed that they had no time to be difficult...; the
political situation was too urgent." Elaborate the statement with examples
from the poets of the period.
12
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Analyse Jimmy's relationship with Helena and Alison. What does his
relationship with the two women reveal about his personality?
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Write a note on the confessional element in Ramanujan's poetry.
14
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Beckett captures 'the endless, tedious nature of human experience itself,
where actions do not always have a goal or meaning'." Discuss the statement
with reference to the play, Waiting for Godot.
15
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Jim (in the novel, Lord Jim) embodies Conrad's finest moral vision." Argue for
or against the statement.
16
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Discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a Bildungsroman.
17
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Would you agree that the exegesis of Sons and Lovers as a presentation of
Oedipus complex robs the novel of some of its nuances? Answer with
illustrative references.
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The gender of the narrator affects the narration at the lexical level in
Kanthapura. Discuss.
19
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The theme of sexuality, especially interracial sexual attraction, and its
possibilities, is coded into the theme of Adela's 'molestation'." Analyse Forster's
A Passage to India in the light of the above statement.
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Discuss Patusan as a psychological landscape in Lord Jim.
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A House for Mr Biswas depicts the exile's desire to strike roots and attain an
authentic selfhood." Examine the statement with reference to Naipaul's novel.
22
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What are the chief symbols that Joyce has woven into the structure and
texture of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
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Clarissa Dalloway endeavours “to balance a need for privacy with a need for
communication with other people”. Do you agree? Give a reasoned response.
24
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Lawrence's characters illustrate the class contradictions at the heart of
modern industrial society." Discuss the statement with reference to Sons and
Lovers.
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Write an essay on the aptness of the title of the novel, A Passage to India
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Is the ending of Kanthapura symptomatic of the socio-economic predicament of
a colonised society? Give reasons.
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What is the significance of the title, A House for Mr Biswas?
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Examine the narrative style used by Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway.