English
Subject Code: 241103
(Twentieth Century Poetry)
Time-4 Hours
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks-1x10=10
1. (a) What does 'red rock' stand for in The Waste Land?
(b) Who is 'Lazarus'?
(c) What does eternal footman imply in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
(d) What does 'black' symbolise in the poem Crossing the Water?
(e) What is the poem Easter 1916 about?
(f) On what occasion was Poem in October written?
(g) What is Byzantium famous for?
(h) What is a Mermaid?
(i) What does 'a tattered coat' stand for?
(j) What figure of speech lies in the phrase 'restless night'?
(k) What do the White horses symbolise?
(l) What is the meaning of the voice of thunder - Da, Da, Da?
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-4x5=20
2. What prayer does the poet make to the sages in Byzantium?
3. Bring out the ironical implications of the title The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
4. Analyse T. S. Eliot's treatment of sex in The Fire Sermon.
5. How is the battle of sexes reflected in the poem The Rival?
6. Why is 'April' cruel to the Wastelanders?
7. Trace the poet's shade of feelings on his birthday in Poem in October.
8. Write a short note on Surrealism.
9. Explain with reference:
"I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones."
Part C
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-10x5=50
10. Discuss Dylan Thomas' us of imagery in Poem in October.
11. Trace the romantic elements in W. B. Yeats' poetry.
12. How does Sylvia Plath present motherhood in her poem Morning Song?
13. How does T. S. Eliot express the conflict of modern men in the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
14. Evaluate W. B. Yeats as an Irish nationalist poet.
15. Write a critical appreciation on the poem The Rival.
16. How does T. S. Eliot make a link between the and present in The Waste Land?
17. Write a note on the theme of salvation in the poem The Waste Land.
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