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Critically comment in about 150 words each on the followingpassages:10×5=50  \n(a)  A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall,the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.  \n(Yeats)  \n(b)  Time present and time past  \nAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past.  \n(Eliot)  \n10  \n(c)   Was he free?Was he happy?The question is absurd:Had anything been wrong,we should certainly have heard.  \n(Auden)  \n10  \n(d)  Ah,solving that questionBrings the priest and the doctorIn their long coatsRunning over the fields.  \n(Larkin)  \n10  \n(e)  Only the Egyptians had it right:their kings had sisters for queensto continue the incestsof childhood into marriage.  \n(Ramanujan)  \n10  \nQ2.Answer all of the following:  \n15+15+20=50  \n(a)  Discuss the paradox in Yeats'idea,expressed in his 'Last Poems',thatworld history was spiralling out of control towards an apocalyptic close,yet it is not a matter for despair,but one for rejoicing.15  \n(b)  “Personification of nature,allusions to Greek mythology and theimagery of death—these devices dominate Eliot's poetry.\"Elucidate.15  \n(c)  How do the best plays of the Theatre of the Absurd show in tellingimages the alienation,bewilderment and frustrations of the ModernMan?  \nQ3.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)  Even while depicting the modern man suffering from negation anddespair due to totalitarian rulers and war-mongering governments,Auden speaks about an affirming flame of human connectedness andconcern.Elaborate.  \n15  \n(b)  Did Larkin deserve the tag The Times gave him as Britain's greatestpost-war writer?Evaluate his merits and demerits as a poet.15  \n(c)  Do you think marriage as an institution is critiqued in Osborne's LookBack in Anger?  \nQ4.Answer all of the following:  \n15+20+15=50  \n(a)  \"It would be wrong to seek Look Back in Anger's politics in the content ofJimmy's monologues.Instead,the politics is in their form:specifically,in their passionate articulacy.\"Justify this claim.15  \n(b)  “Waiting for Godot is essentially a joke on the whole theatricalexperience,an extended invitation to the audience to get up and leave.Nothing is going to happen,the play keeps telling us.\"Discuss.  \n(c)  Though Ramanujan,as an emigré poet,wrote about the home leftbehind with a remote passion and irony,how relevant are hisexperiences to a contemporary Indian in a globalized andhyperconnected world?  \nSECTION B  \n10×5=50  \nQ5.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)  Is it valid to say that Lord Jim is all about coping with guilt,shame andremorse felt by Jim?10  \n(b)  Discuss the significance of the scene in A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man,when Stephen sees a beautiful young girl by the river at theend of Chapter Four.  \n10  \n(c)  What differences do you find between Mrs.Gertrude Morel andMiss Gertrude as a maiden?10  \n(d)  How does Forster depict the British colonial bureaucrats in A Passage toIndia?10  \n(e)  Analyze the presentation of the caste problem and untouchability aspart of the Varnashrama system in the novel Kanthapura.10  \n15+20+15=50  \nQ6.Answer all of the following:  \n(a)  Cr","cbCaiiaWPtOULot9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiaWPtOULot9","pdf",2024485,"English","# Question Paper Specific Instructions\n## SECTION A\n### Q1\n### Q2\n### Q3\n### Q4\n## SECTION B\n### Q5\n### Q6\n### Q7\n### Q8","[{\"question\":\"How many questions must candidates attempt in total, and which are compulsory?\",\"answer\":\"Candidates must attempt five questions in total. 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