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Instructions\n\nPlease read each of the following instructions carefully before attemptingquestions:  \nThere are EIGHT questions divided in Two Sections.  \nCandidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all.  \nQuestions no.1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining,any THREE are to beattempted choosing at least ONE question from each Section.  \nThe number of marks carried by a question/part is indicated against it.  \nAnswers must be written in ENGLISH.  \nWord limit in questions,wherever specified,should be adhered to.  \nAttempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order.Unless struck off,attempt of aquestion shall be counted even if attempted partly.Any page or portion of the page leftblank in the Question-cum-Answer (QCA)Booklet must be clearly struck off.  \n# SECTIONA\n\nQ1.Critically comment in about 150 words on each of the following:  10×5=50  \n(a).….somewhere in sands of the desert.A shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs,while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.  \n(b)  \n….There was a Birth,certainly,  \nWe had evidence and no doubt.I had seen birth and death,But had thought they were different;this Birth wasHard and bitter agony for us,like Death,our death.(T.S.Eliot)  \n(c)  That girls are raped,that two boys knife a third,Were axioms to him,who'd never heardOf any world where promises were keptOr one could weep because another wept.  \n(W.H.Auden)  \n10  \n(d)  Only one ship is seeking us,a black-Sailed unfamiliar,towing at her backA huge and birdless silence.In her wakeNo waters breed or break.  \n(Philip Larkin)  \n10  \n(e)  under the bridges with patchesof repair all over them  \nthe wet stones glistening like sleepycrocodiles,the dry ones  \nshaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sunThe poets only sang of the floods.  \n(A.K.Ramanujan)10  \nQ2.Answer allof the following:  \n15+15+20=50  \n(a)  Bring out the dichotomy between body and soul presented by W.B.Yeatsin the poems“Sailing to Byzantium”and“Byzantium”.  \n15  \n(b)  T.S.Eliot exploits the potential of myth and history to comment on hiscontemporary society.  \nAnalyse the statement in reference to the poems prescribed in thesyllabus.15  \n(c)  Illustrate the distinctive features of colonialism and post-colonialism inreference to some literary texts.  \n15+15+20=50  \nQ3.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)  Discuss W.H.Auden's engagement with contemporary social,politicaland religious issues in reference to some of his poems prescribed for yourstudy.15  \n(b)  Critically examine Philip Larkin's portrayal of the turmoils of post-warscenario in the poems prescribed in your syllabus.15  \n(c)  Explain the meaning of feminism,and discuss its various phases ofevolution in the 20th century.20  \n15+15+20=50  \nQ4.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)  Bring out the elements of Indian sensibility as reflected in  \nA.K.Ramanujan's poems prescribed in your syllabus.15  \n(b)  Analyse critically the depiction of a woman in the institution of marriageby Osborne in the play Look Back in Anger15  \n(c)  llustrate the characteristic features of Absurd Theatre with specialreference to the play Waiting for Godot.20  \nSECTIONB  \nQ5.Answer all of the following in about 150 words each:  \n10×5=50  \n(a)  Comment on the ending of the novel Sons and Lovers after the death ofGertrude Morel.10  \n(b)  Discuss Raja Rao's success in fusing history’and ‘myth'in the novelKanthapura.10  \n(c)  Analyse James Joyce's interweaving of 'myth'in the narrative of hisnovel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.10  \n(d)  llustrate the use of'stream of consciousness'as a narrative technique inthe novel Mrs.Dalloway.10  \n(e)  Comment on the significance of the title of the novel A House forMr Biswas.10  \nQ6.Answer all of the following:  \n15+15+20=50  \n15  \n(a)  Discuss the role of Marlow as a narrator 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