MA Question Paper Mysore University

Hi I want to prepare for the Mysore University upcoming exam so need the MA English previous question paper so can you please help me??

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Well below I have given you the MA English previous question paper for the Mysore University so you can have a look

1. a) Examine how Puritanism affected the English society in the 16th century?

OR

b) Show how Chaucer gives us vivid portraits of his pilgrims in The Prologue. Illustrate

by using any two examples.

2. Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s central concerns in Faerie Queene-Book I.

3. What are the chief characteristics of metaphysical poetry? Discuss with reference to at

least two poems of Donne.

4. Consider George Herbert as a devotional poet.

5. Analyse in detail Andrew Marvel’s ‘The Garden’.

6. Sketch the character of Satan in Paradise Lost-Book I.

7. Examine Milton’s ‘’Lycidas’’ as a pastoral Elegy.

SECTION – B

8. ‘’The Book of Job is a great work of art not inspite of but because of its religious

concern’. Discuss.

9. Do you think that Bacon’s essays are ‘dispersed meditations’. Discuss.

10. Explain how ‘ThePilgrim’s Progress shows the way to the Eternal city’.

SECTION – C

11. a) Examine Dr.Faustus as a medieval morality play turned into a renaissance
tragedy.

OR

b) ‘’In Dr.Faustus the underlying conflict is between the Renaissance conception of
knowledge as power and the Christian notion of forbidden knowledge and damnation’’.
Elucidate. b) Comment on Auden’s critique of ‘’The Unknown Citizen’’.

12. a) Do you think that Jonson in Volpone adheres to his concept of comedy that it
should

‘spot with human follies, not with crimes?

OR

b) ‘’Gold is the new centre of the Volpone universe, around which all existence now
circles and from which it must draw its life’’. – Discuss.

MA English previous question paper for the Mysore University