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Fourth Semester MA Degree Examination

(CUCSS, PG)

English

Model Question Paper

EN4CO7 INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

TIME: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM

WEIGHTAGE: 36

I. Answer all the following questions in a word, phrase or sentence:-

1. What are the bubble-eyed water bugs perched upon?

2. What did the old poets sing about in the city of Madurai?

3. Who is Sophiemol in The God of Small Things?

4. Name the wealthy organ recipient in the play Harvest.

5. What does Ithaca symbolize in the novel A Journey to Ithaca?

6.Two Leaves and a Bud is set in the tea plantations of---------.

7.What do the best poets wait for ,according to Nissim Ezekiel?

8.Who sits on the Casaurina tree early in the morning?

(8x1/2=4)

II. Answer any three of the following questions in a paragraph of 150 words

each:

9. Wit and irony in the poems of Ezekiel

10. Theme of Final solutions.

11. Joya in Harvest.

12. Kari Sahib’s House.

13. Nostalgia in Toru Dutt’s poetry.

14. East-West Encounter in Journey to Ithaca

(3x2=6)

III. Annotate any three of the following:

15. Mayst thou be numbered when my days are done

With deathless trees---like those in Borrowdale…

16. You fall back against her in the dumb lightTrying

to learn something more about women.

17. The light of thy music illumines the world.The life breath of thy

musicruns from sky to sky.

18. No, not only prophets walk on water.

19….you cannot believe, darling,

Can you, that I lived in such a house and

Was proud and loved…

20.O mother mine, I cannot stay, the fairy folk are calling.

(3 x 2 = 6)

IV. Write an essay of 450 words each on any four of the following questions,

choosing one from each section:

Section A

21. Discuss the elements of modernism in the poetry of Daruwalla,Ramanujan
and

Moraes.

22. Critically examine Rabindranath Tagore as a mystical poet.

23. Comment on the complex networkings of memory and desire in the
poems of

Toru Dutt, R.Parthasarathy and Kamala Das.

Section B

24. Discuss Harvest as a futurist play.

25. Critically comment on the plot of Dattani’s play Final Solutions.

26. Attempt a critical essay on the origin and growth of Indian English
dramatic

tradition.

Section C

27. Write a critical analysis of the characterization of Margayya in Financial
Expert.

28.How does Arundhati Roy explore the contradictions of a postcolonial
society in

her novel the God of Small Things?

29.The central issue in Journey to Ithaca is not the search for identity of

existence,but a “Search for truth,ultimate reality,beauty,joy,ecstasy or
whatever form

truth has.” Discuss.


Section D

30. Attempt a critical reading of Susie Tharu’s essay “Englishing Indulekha”.
31. Comment on Nehru’s philosophy as portrayed in his essay.

32. Critically analyze Nandy’s views on colonization as depicted in The
Uncolonized

Mind.

( 4*5 = 20 )