UP-TO-DATE PAPER (A) 2004 - B.A. ENGLISH (PU)

PAPER NO. 2

(YEAR 2004 - GROUP II)

1. Explain any THREE of the following extracts with reference to the context. 
(i) James: I suppose you think it's brave to come back from the front and threaten a defenseless man with a revolver? Is that the sort of fair play they teach you in the Army?
(ii) Lettice: You'll love uncle Charles -- everybody does. Call him, Guy. He may not approve but he won't criticizes. He never criticizes any body.
(iii) I will drain
Long draughts of quiet
As a purgation.
(iv) But if this century is to be made great
than those before, her sons must make
her so.
(v) The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.
2.(a) "THE KILLERS" by Hemingway
Attempt any TWO of the following questions. 
(i) "There is not anything I can do about it" Ole Anderson said. He looked at the wall. "Tanks for coming to tell me about it". What does Ole Anderson read on the wall? Elaborate.
(ii) Describe Henry's Lunch Room and what happened there?
(iii) Describe Hemingway's typical style of narrating a story.
(b) "RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Attempt any TWO of the following questions. 
(i) Is the daughter more dear to the professor than his art? Discuss.
(ii) What is Giovanni's role in the story?
(iii) "At least" thought he, "her poison in not yet entered into my system. I am no flower to die in her lap". Explain.
3. Answer any TWO of the following questions. 
(i) "There are certain things that our age need, and certain things that it should avoid". Elaborate. ("Science and Values" by Bertrand Russell)
(ii) Make a comparison between Yeats' grandfather and grandmother. ("My Grandfather" by W.B. Yeats)
(iii) In what different ways people gossip and to what effect? ("Gossip" by Francine Prose)
4. Attempt any THREE of the following questions.
(i) Explain "Tartary" by Walter De La Mare as a romantic poem.
(ii) Explain all what the others do and rebel does not do? ("The Rebel" by D.J. Enright)
(iii) Describe the seventh stage of life in Shakespeare's "All the World's A Stage".
(iv) "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decreed", and then follows the most imaginative poem. What does Coleridge describe in the poem?
(v) Explain the poetic beauty of "Fog" by Carl Sandburg:
The fog come
On little cat feet
It sits looking
Over the harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.
5. Answer any THREE of the following questions. 
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
(i) How do you describe Santiago's relationship with the boy?
(ii) Why among all the Spanish people the hero is an American. Discuss.
(iii) Describe old man's struggle against the sharks.
(iv) Explain: "Fish", he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead".
(v) Killing sharks ultimately would mean defeating death. Discuss.