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Monday, September 26, 2011

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION –JUNE, 2009.Third Year English AMERICAN LITERATURE

 Time : 3 hours                                  Maximum  marks : 75

1.         Answer any THREE of the following in about 50 words each :   (3 ´ 5 = 15)

             (a)     What is the moral of Robert Frost's poem ‘‘Mending Wall’’?

             (b)     Enumerate the three major themes of Emily Dickinson.

             (c)     Write a few lines on the influence of Bhagavad Gita for writing of ‘‘Brahma’’.

             (d)     Define expressionism.

(e)     Bring out the occasion wherein the experiences of Compson children are given in ‘‘Sound and the Fury’’,.

             (f)      Account on the popularity of ‘‘Tom Sawyer’’.

        2.         Answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each :   (3 ´ 10 = 30)

             (a)     Explain the importance of the refrain ‘‘nevermore’’ in ‘‘The Raven’’.

             (b)     State Emerson's philosophy of life.

             (c)     Consider ‘‘The Hairy Ape’’ as an expressionistic play.

             (d)     Explain Off-Broadway Theatre.

             (e)     Give an analysis of the novel ‘‘Tom Sawyer’’.

    (f)      The use of stream of consciousness technique in William Faulkner's ‘‘The Sound and The Fury’’.

3.         Answer any TWO of the following in about 200 words each      (2 ´ 15 = 30)

             (a)     Write an essay on treatment of nature in Robert Frost's poems prescribed to you.

             (b)     Write a note on Poe's views on the composition of a poem.

             (c)     Give a short analysis of ‘‘A Street Car Named Desire’’.

             (d)     Consider Mark Twain as a novelist.


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