DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

S.V. UNIVERSITY ; TIRUPATIDate:23-06-2011

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

Dear Distance Learner

Hope you are preparing well for your forth coming examinations to be held duringAuguesti 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 (Previ-

ous & 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 CANDIDATE2. ENROLLMENT NO.3. NAME OF THE COTIRSE & SUBJECT4. PAPER TITLE AND NUMBERs. HALL TTCKET NO.(to be written compulsorily)

Further, it is informed to all the candidates that the writing assignments and submis-

sion 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.

The completed assignment books are to be.sent through Registered-Post or Handover

in person to the address given below.THE DIRECTORDIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONS.V.I.INIVERSITY TIRUPATI -517 502Note:

Submission ofAssignments : Before last date of your examination.

Late submission of asignments will not be accepted and they will be summarilyrejected.

TO WISH YOU GOOD LUCKAII Studens,All Co-ordinators of Study Centers.

DIRECTOR

lnternalAssignmentM.A.English (Final)

Paper- lDrama from 16ftCenturyto 20thChentury

1. Annotate any four of the following:

(a) why droops my celia? Thou hast in place of a base husbandfound Aworthy lover: use thyfortune well.

(b) I have not time to flatter you noq we'll pad:

(c) A Fellowthat lives in a windmill, has not a morewhimsical Dwelling than tire Heart of a man that is lodg'd in a woman.

(d) Well, Tis a lamentable thing I swear, that one has not the Libertiyof chusing one'sAcquaintance as one does ones cloaths.

(e) Luck! God has foughtfor us; and you call it luck!

(0 Woman: you have said enouEh to burn ten heretics willyou notbe warned?

(g) . Barons are employable against each other; Greater enemiesmust Kings destroy.

(h) Clear the airl Clean the Skyl Wash the Wind! take stone fromstone and wash them.

2. Write short note on any fourof the following:

(a) Comedyof Humours.(b) Classicism,(c) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.(d) Role of Chorus,(e) UftiversttyWits.(0 lrish mythology. ,

(g) Tlieatre'of theAbsuid(h) Post-second WorM War Drama in Britain:

3. AttemPt anY two of the following

(a) Consider Volpone a satirical comedy'

(b)CommentonwitandhumourintheWayoftheworld

(c) Depict'Epologueito saint joan in yourown words

(d) Describe Murder in the Cathedral as a drama of Church Strug

4. - Answer any three of the following, the answer not exceeding 300

words each:

(a) Edward ll is the sentimental weaking betrayed and done to death

bythe forces of ambition and cruelty' Discgss'

(b) Considerthe importance of 'Being Earnest a play of confusions

: of identity

(c) Delineate the tragic atmosphere of the play Ridersto the Sea

(d) Analyse Jimmy's grouse against hlqwrfg and th.girsocial incom

, patibilitY : : : :. ,,., .

(e) ConsiderWaiting for godot and absure drama '

(0 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead relies on wit and allu

sions. JustifY.

lnternalAssignmentM.A.English (Final)

' Paper - 11 Drrama from 1830 to the present

1. Annotate any fourof the fotlowing

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

(b) 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

(c) He fathers-forth whose beautyis past change: Praise him.

(d) Timie's eunuch,and not breed oneworkthatwakes, Mine, OthouLord of life, sendmy roots rain

(e) Allchanged, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born

(0 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ;

Mere anarchy is loosed .upon the world.

(g) So rudelyforced.Terev.

(h) Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you.

2. Write short notes on any four ol the following :

(a) Spiritus Mundi.(b) lnscape.(c) Oxford Movement.(d) Metaphor.(e) Myth.(0 Sonnet.(g) Movement Poets.(h) lrony.

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3. Attempt any two of the following

(a) Consider "My Last Duchess" as a dramatic monologue

(b) Hopkins revels in the grandeur oJ nature in Pied Beaut5r. Elabo

(c) Do you htinkYeats's Second Coming is a prophetic poem? Substantiate

(d) How do you account for the wasteland being chosen as thb poemof the Twentieth Centu ry.

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

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

(b) Highlight the spirit of adventure in Tennyson's "Ulysses"

. (c) What are the literary,properties,of f'The Blessed Damozel?"

(d) Consider " The Unknown Citizen" a satire on modern bureaucracy - ridden society.

(e) Appreciate the poetice diction of Dylan Thomas

(0 Discuss, howTed Hughes dramatises primitivism in the moderncontext in his poetry.

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lntefnalAssignmentM.A.English (Final)

Paper - lllAn Intensive study of a poet: Milton and his works

Annotate any four of the following:

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(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Write short notes on any four of the following:,i

A solemn councilforthwith to be held :

At Pandaemortium, the hi^i capitalof Satan and his peers:

Puts on swiftwings, and towards the gates"of hellExplores his solitary fl ight;

Henceforth, and never shall my harp tjiy praiseForget, 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 reposeYourwearied virtue, forthe ease,you find to slumber here, as inthe 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 turnHis labours, forthou.canst, to peacefulend.

Thyfairenchajated cup, and warbling charmsNo moreon me have powei% theirforce is null'd.

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(h)

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(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 Lostln media res.Political allegory.Martydom of Samson.The role of chorus in SamsonAgonistes.

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Attempt any haro of the foilowing

(a) Critically examine Eves speech in Book lV

(b) ln satan's speechesa self-lrustrirthig -spite - is the dominantemotion. Discuss.

(c) Emphasize the highly individualway in wjiich Milton uses his epicmachinery.

(d) How does Milton state the theme of paradise Last at thebeginntng of Book l?

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

(a) Bring out the distinction between Guilty and tnnocenthappiness as presented in the masqu" Corr..

(b) "Lycidas is. an, elegy which is highry formar and highry individual"- Discuss

(c) comment on the appropriateness of imagery and tone in"LAllegro" and ,,ll penserosotr

(d) Describe in your own words the Argument of Book Vll of paradise Lost.

Analyse Jesus's cold replies to satan's temptations in paradise

of Education emphasises on the usefulness of content and noton any stylistic elegance. Explain.

(e)

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lnternalAssignmentM.A.English (Final)

Paper - lV An lndian Eng'lish Literature

1. Annotate any four of the following:

(a) I prepared fortheworst. Married,Changed jobs, and sawmyself afool.

(b) They let her slide from pegs of sanity into

A bed made soft with tears and she lay there weeping

(c) Onlythe Egyptians had it right.

to continue the incestsof childhood into marriage

(d) Of each historic passion as a blinkThat happened to the sad eye of time.

(e) TheArya Samaj in the Punjab founded itself on a fresh interpre

tation of the truth of the Veda and an attemptto apply old Vedicpronciples of life to modern conditions.

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

Narayana.

(g) I have saved Uttarakut from the wretched fate of being for ever a

parasite on Shiv-tarai.

(h) Nay, you have found him. Heis yours for ever now.

2. Write short notes on any four of the following:(a) Academic Poets.(b) lrony.(c) AutobiograPhicalelement.(d) MetaPhor.(e) Existentialdilemma.(0 Folk-drama.(g) The Renaissance.(h) lndian English idiom.

3. Attempt any two of the following

(a) Do you agree that Ezekiells poetry explores feelings gf loss anddeprivation? Substantiate.

(b) How do you account for the statement that Ramanujan is essentially a poet of memory?

(c) What is the message of Sri Aurobindo in The Renaissance in

(d) What is the social motive of the play Mukta-Dhara?

4. Answer any three of the foltowing, the answer not Exceeding 300words each.

I (a) Retate SriAurobindo's The Symbol Dawn to,a new epoch incasmic history.

(b) ' Examine Naidurs "The Temple" for its imagery of beauty andboldness.

.., (c) Explain Toru Duttis use of.the rich lndiap heritage of myth and

follclore

(d) For Nehru history is a method,of appreciating the Indian diversities. Elaborate in the context of Discovery of lndia.

(e) Hayavadana is a bold experiment in dramatic techniques.Discuss

(0 Portraythe characterofjagan in the Vendorof Sweets,

lnternalAssignmentM.A.EnglishlFinal)

Paper- V - American Literature

1. Annotate any four of the fotlowing:

(a) I chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter Taking allhints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,

(b) These and with these and the breath of my chant, l'll perfume the. grave of him I love.

e (c) l'd like to get awayfrom earth.awhileAnd then come back to it and begin oven

(d) 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.

(e) Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into manythings.

(0 What we term a long poem is, in fact, merely a succession of.. :' " brief ones that is to say, of brief poeticat effects?

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

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

2. Write short notes on any four of the following:

(a) . Plastic Theatre.(b) Theme ofAlienation.(c) Jewish Novel. ,

(d) lllusion and Reality.(e) American Renaissance.(0 Obscurity in Poetry.(g) 'Realism and Naturalism,(h) TheAmericanCivilWar.

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Attempt any two of the following

(a) Consider Robert frost as a pastoral poet.

(b) write an essayon the duties of theAmericarschorar.

(c) Bring out the autobiographicar etement in whitman,s ,'out of thecradle endlessly rocking,'

(d) consider Miiler's Death of a saresmen as criticism onAmericarBusiness Morality.

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

(a) Discuss poe's "The Raven" in the right of his phirosophy of composition. \(b) Discuss the rerevance of section il r of il r of ',,, sunday Moming,, tothe poem as a whole - -

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(d)

(e)

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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. Discuss

Exptain the meaning and significance of the tifle of wiiliams,sAStreet car named disire.

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