Netaji Subhas Open University question paper ma

Hi I would like to have the previous years question paper of the M.A. in English for the Netaji Subhas Open University?

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The previous years question paper of the M.A. in English for the Netaji Subhas Open University is as given below:

1. Answer any two questions from the following : 20×2=40

(a) With reference to sonnet numbers 18, 30 and 130 bring out the features of a Shakespearean sonnet

(b) What is an ‘elegy’ ? Discuss Dryden’s To The Memory of Mr. Oldham as an elegy

(c) In what ways is Victorian poetry an extension of romantic poetry ? Answer with reference to the poems in your syllabus

(d) Bring out the elements of modernism in T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock

(e) Critically analyse Blake’s Infant Joy and The Fly


2. Answer any three of the following questions : 12×3=36

(a) Discuss the poem ‘The God of Shepherds, Tityrus’, an extract from Spenser’s The Shapherd’s Calendar, as a fine specimen of pastoral poetry

(b) Would you consider Milton’s sonnet ‘When I consider how my light is spent’ a poem of complaint or a poem in praise of God ?
Give reasons for your answer

(c) Critically discuss Byron’s poem “There is a Pleasure in the Pathless woods”

(d) Discuss the important images in Shelley’s To a Skylark and show how they help you in your understanding of the poem

(e) Discuss the theme of Yeats’s The Second Coming with reference to the symbols used in the poem

(f) Bring out the element of irony in Sassoon’s poem They

(g) Why does Louis Bennett call his poem Colonization in Reverse ? Give reasons for your answer

3. Answer briefly any four of the following questions : 6×4=24

(a) What is the difference between ‘blank verse’ and ‘free
verse’ ? Give reasons for your answer.

(b) Write a short note on the Spanserian stanja. What is its metrical pattern ?

(c) What did the Augustan writers understand by the term ‘imitation’ ?

(d) Comment on the allegorical framework in Dryden’s Absalom
and Achitophel.

(e) Write a paragraph on the role of the intellectuals in shaping modern poetry.

(f) What is the basic difference between sex and gender ?

(g) Why does Auden refer to Brueghel’s painting ‘I carus’ in his poem ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’ ?

(h) Scan the following lines and name the predominating metre :
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon the inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; .....

(i) Bring out with suitable examples the difference between an
antithesis and an epigram.