DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION S.V.

UNIVERSITY ; TIRUPATI
Date:23-06-2011 INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Dear Distance Learner
Hope you are preparing well for your forth coming examinations to be held during Auguesti September 2011 to You are already aware that the DDE has introduced interenal assessenments (writing of assignments ) from the academic year 2009-i0 and they will be evaluated for 20 marks for each paper. The University examinations will be held only for 80 marks in each paper. Hence, herewith we ilre sending assignment questions for all papers of PG (Previous & Final) course students who were joined in 2009-10 batches. You havae to write all the assignments in your own hand writing in a long size un ruled note book, keeping separate note book to each paper (i.e.5 books for 5 papers). Typed and scanned material will not be accepted. The following particulars should be written on the first page (front) of the asignment note book.
1. NAME OF THE CANDIDATE 2. ENROLLMENT NO. 3. NAME OF THE COTIRSE & SUBJECT 4. PAPER TITLE AND NUMBER s. HALL TTCKET NO. (to be written compulsorily)

Further, it is informed to all the candidates that the writing assignments and submission is compulsory. Otherwise the candidates will forego the internal assignment marks (i.e.20 ) and it wilfnot be taken into consideration for the subsequent years, if you fail to submit now.
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THE DIRECTOR DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION S.V.I.INIVERSITY TIRUPATI -517 502 Note:
Submission ofAssignments : Before last date of your examination. Late submission of asignments will not be accepted and they will be summarily rejected.

TO
AII Studens,

WISH YOU GOOD LUCK DIRECTOR

All Co-ordinators of Study Centers.

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M.A.English (Final)

Paper- lDrama from 16ftCenturyto 20thChentury

1.

Annotate any four of the following:

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0

(g)

why droops my celia? Thou hast in place of a base husband

found Aworthy lover: use thyfortune well.
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have not time to flatter you noq we'll pad:

A Fellowthat lives in a windmill, has not a morewhimsical Dwell ing than tire Heart of a man that is lodg'd in a woman. Well, Tis a lamentable thing I swear, that one has not the Libertiy of chusing one'sAcquaintance as one does ones cloaths. Luck! God has foughtfor us; and you call it luck!

Woman: you have said enouEh to burn ten heretics willyou not be warned? Barons are employable against each other; Greater enemies must Kings destroy. Clear the airl Clean the Skyl Wash the Wind! take stone from stone and wash them.

(h) 2.

Write short note on any fourof the following:

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h)

Comedyof Humours. Classicism, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Role of Chorus,

UftiversttyWits. lrish , Tlieatre'of theAbsuid Post-second WorM War Drama in Britain:

mythology.

3.

AttemPt anY two of the following

(a) (c) (d)

4. -

Consider Volpone a satirical comedy'

(b)CommentonwitandhumourintheWayoftheworld
Depict'Epologueito saint joan in yourown words
Describe Murder in the Cathedral as a drama of Church Strug

Answer any three of the following, the answer not exceeding 300 words each:

(a) (b) : (c) (d) (e) (0

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Edward ll is the sentimental weaking betrayed and done to death bythe forces of ambition and cruelty' Discgss'

Considerthe importance of identity

of 'Being

Earnest a play of confusions

Delineate the tragic atmosphere of the play Ridersto the Sea Analyse Jimmy's grouse against hlqwrfg and th.girsocial incom

patibilitY

ConsiderWaiting for godot and absure drama

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead relies on wit and allu sions. JustifY.

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' 1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h) 2.

M.A.English (Final) Paper - 11 Drrama from 1830 to the present

Annotate any fourof the fotlowing

Much the same smild? This grew; I gave commands; Then allsmiles stopped together

Ouf! I leaned out of windowforfreafe air. There came a hurry of feet and little feet, A sweep of lute-strings, laughs and whifts of
He fathers-forth whose beauty

is past change: Praise him. Timie's eunuch,and not breed oneworkthatwakes, Mine, Othou Lord of life, sendmy roots rain

Allchanged, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ; Mere anarchy is loosed .upon the world. So rudelyforced.
Terev.

Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you.
:

Write short notes on any four ol the following

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h)

Spiritus Mundi. lnscape. Oxford Movement. Metaphor.

Myth.

Sonnet. Movement Poets.

lrony.

3.

Attempt any two of the following

(a) (b)

Consider "My Last Duchess" as a dramatic monologue Hopkins revels in the grandeur oJ nature in Pied Beaut5r. Elabo
Do you htinkYeats's Second Coming is a prophetic poem? Sub

(c) (d) 4.

stantiate
How do you account for the wasteland being chosen as thb poem of the Twentieth Centu ry.

Answer any three of the following, the answer not exceeding 300 words each.

(a) (b) (c) . (d) (e) (0

" The Scholar Gipsy'! and !'Thyrsis" are closely lir,rked in tone, setting and stanza form. Examine.

Highlight the spirit of adventure in Tennyson's "Ulysses" What are the literary,properties,of f'The Blessed Damozel?"

Consider " The Unknown Citizen" a satire on modern bureau cracy - ridden society. Appreciate the poetice diction of Dylan Thomas
Discuss, howTed Hughes dramatises primitivism in the modern context in his poetry.

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Paper 1.

M.A.English (Final) lllAn Intensive study of a poet: Milton and his works

Annotate any four of the following:

(a)
A solemn councilforthwith to be held : At Pandaemortium, the hi^i capitalof Satan and his peers:

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(b) (c) (d) (e)

Puts on swiftwings, and towards the gates"of hell Explores his solitary fl ight; Henceforth, and never shall my harp tjiy praise Forget, norfrom thy father's praise disjoin.
Yet happy pair; enjoy, till I retuin, Short pleasures, for long woes are to succeed.

Afterthe toil Of battle to repose Yourwearied virtue, forthe ease,you find to slumber here, as in the vales of heaven?
Ourdeath the tree of knowledge grewfast by, knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Behold him in this state calamitous, and turn His labours, forthou.canst, to peacefulend.

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(s)
(h)

Thyfairenchajated cup, and warbling charms No moreon me have powei% theirforce is null'd.

2.

Write short notes on any four of the following:

,i

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g)

(h)

Classical mythology in Milton's works. Petrarchan Sonnet. Milton as Christian Humanist. The importance of free will* in Paradise Lost ln media res. Political allegory. Martydom of Samson. The role of chorus in SamsonAgonistes.

3.

Attempt any

haro

of the foilowing

(a) (b) (c) (d)

4.

Critically examine Eves speech in Book

lV

ln satan's speechesa self-lrustrirthig -spite - is the dominant emotion. Discuss.

Emphasize the highly individualway in wjiich Milton uses his epic machinery.

beginntng of Book

How does Milton state the theme of paradise Last at the

l?

Answer any three of the following, the answer not exceeding 300 words each.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(e) (0

happiness as presented in the masqu"

Bring out the distinction between Guilty and tnnocent

Corr..

vidual"-

"Lycidas is. an, elegy which is highry formar and highry indi
Discuss

comment on the appropriateness of imagery and tone in "LAllegro" and ,,ll penserosotr
Describe in your own words the Argument of Book Vll of para dise Lost. Analyse Jesus's cold replies to satan's temptations in paradise

of Education emphasises on the usefulness of content and not on any stylistic elegance. Explain.

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M.A.English (Final) Paper - lV An lndian Eng'lish Literature

1.

Annotate any four of the following:

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h) 2. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h)

fortheworst. Married, Changed jobs, and sawmyself afool.

I prepared

They let her slide from pegs of sanity into A bed made soft with tears and she lay there weeping

Onlythe Egyptians had it right.

to continue the incests of childhood into marriage Of each historic passion as a blink That happened to the sad eye of time.

TheArya Samaj in the Punjab founded itself on a fresh interpre tation of the truth of the Veda and an attemptto apply old Vedic pronciples of life to modern conditions.

For it had seen in the lowest human being the Godhead,

Narayana. have saved Uttarakut from the wretched fate of being for ever a parasite on Shiv-tarai.
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Nay, you have found him. Heis yours for ever now.

Write short notes on any four of the following:

Academic Poets.
lrony.

AutobiograPhicalelement.
MetaPhor.

Existentialdilemma. Folk-drama. The Renaissance. lndian English idiom.

3.

Attempt any two of the following

(a) (b) (c) (d) 4.

Do you agree that Ezekiells poetry explores feelings gf loss and

deprivation? Substantiate.
How do you account for the statement that Ramanujan is essen tially a poet of memory?

What is the message of Sri Aurobindo in The Renaissance in

What is the social motive of the play Mukta-Dhara?

Answer any three of the foltowing, the answer not Exceeding 300 words each.
Retate SriAurobindo's The Symbol Dawn to,a new epoch in casmic history. Examine Naidurs "The Temple" for its imagery of beauty and boldness.

I (a)
(b)

'

, (c) (d) (e) (0

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Explain Toru Duttis use of.the rich lndiap heritage of myth and follclore For Nehru history is a method,of appreciating the Indian diversi ties. Elaborate in the context of Discovery of lndia.

Hayavadana is a bold experiment in dramatic techniques. Discuss Portraythe characterofjagan in the Vendorof Sweets,

lnternalAssignment M.A.EnglishlFinal) Paper- V - American Literature

1.

Annotate any four of the fotlowing:

(a) (b) . (c) (d) (e) (0 .. :' " (g) (h) 2.

chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
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These and with these and the breath of my chant, l'll perfume the grave of him I love. l'd like to get awayfrom earth.awhile And then come back to it and begin oven That day she put our heads to gether, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into manythings.

What we term a long poem is, in fact, merely a succession of brief ones that is to say, of brief poeticat effects?

Asales;nan is gotto dream, boy. lt comes with the territory.

You're a poet, you knowthat biff? you're a You're an idealist

Write short notes on any four of the following:

(a) . Plastic Theatre.

(b) (c) (d) (e) (0 (g) (h)

Theme ofAlienation. Jewish Novel.

lllusion and Reality. American Renaissance. Obscurity in Poetry. 'Realism and Naturalism,

TheAmericanCivilWar.

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Attempt any two of the following

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Consider Robert frost as a pastoral poet.

write an essayon the duties of theAmericarschorar.

Bring out the autobiographicar etement in whitman,s ,'out of the cradle endlessly rocking,'

consider Miiler's Death of a saresmen as criticism onAmericar Business Morality.

Answerany three of the foilowing, the answer not exceeding 300 words each.

(a) (b)
(c) (d) (e)

position.

Discuss poe's "The Raven" in the right of his phirosophy of com

Discuss the rerevance of section the poem as a

whole

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commenton Thoreau's econornyfrom a studyof his warden. sketch the characterof santiago in The ord Man and the sea
seize the Day is about a morat masochist]rcmmy, whirherm. Dis cuss
Exptain the meaning and significance of the tifle of wiiliams,sA Street car named disire.

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