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Civil Services (Main)
Examination- 2025 SLPM-D-ENG
ENGLISH
Paper II
(LITERATURE )
Time Allowed : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 250
Question Paper Specific Instructions
Please read each of the following instructions carefully before attempting
questions:
There are EIGHT questions divided in TWO SECTIONS.
Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all.
Questions no. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, any THREE are to be
attempted choosing at least ONE question from each Section.
The number of marks carried by a question /part 75 indicated against it.
Answers must be written in ENGLISH.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order. Unless struck off, attempt of a
question shall be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left
blank in the Question-cum-Answer (QCA) Booklet must be clearly struck off.
SECTION A
Ql. Critically comment in about 150 words on each of the following: 10x5=50
(a) And may her bridegroom bring her to a house
Where all’s accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
(W.B. Yeats) 10
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The trilling wire in the blood.
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
(T.S. Eliot)
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone,
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
(W.H. Auden)
All the unhurried day,
Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
(Philip Larkin)
A beggar once came with a violin
to croak out a prostitute song
that our voiceless cook sang
all the time in our backyard.
(A.K. Ramanujan)
Q2. Answer all of the following :
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(b)
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Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” explores the psychological
chaos and alienation associated with modernism. Discuss.
Comment on W.B. Yeats’ apocalyptic and prophetic enunciations
contained in the prescribed poems.
On the basis of your readings of لم Ramanujan’s poems, trace the
elements of quintessential Indian ethos contained therein.
Q3. Answer all of the following :
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(b)
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Analyse W.H. Auden’s poetry as a blend of ‘historical context with
modern critique.’
Philip Larkin’s poems of disgust and despair hid a wounded romantic
temperament behind a mask of irony. Elucidate.
Discuss how modernism in literature experimented with language, form
and style to represent the complexities of the then contemporary human
life. Make use of the prescribed texts to substantiate your answer.
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Q4. Answer all of the following :
(a) ` How does Jimmy Porter’s anger function as both a critique of post-war
British society and a manifestation of personal inadequacies in John
Osborne’s play “Look Back in Anger” ?
(b) | How does modernist poetry employ ‘symbolism’ to give an ironic twist to
descriptions in order to create meaning ?
(6) In Waiting for Godot, how does Beckett use ‘absence’ to challenge
traditional notions of time, purpose and meaning ?
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Q5. Answer all of the following in about 150 words each :
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SECTION B
Discus how industrialization impacts the characters and their relations
in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
The presence of a female narrator underlines the feminized Gandhian
approach of submission and non-aggression in Kanthapura. Elucidate.
Discuss Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a rumination
on Irish nationalism.
Analyse the treatment of Time in the novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Attempt a postcolonial reading of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.
Answer all of the following :
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Conrad’s Lord Jim documents the exploitative nature of European
colonialism. Discuss.
Analyse V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas in the light of the
following quotation :
“They had grown up in the heart of darkness, and at the edge of the
world. And beyond was the real world, cold and unexotic, where their
fate was written.”
“Marxist analysis can be used as a tool to reveal the oft-hidden
structures in literary texts.” Analyse any two novels prescribed in your
syllabus in the light of the above statement.
Answer all of the following:
(a)
(b)
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Examine Mrs. Moore’s character as a bridge between British and Indian
cultures in A Passage to India. To what extent does she succeed or fail in
this role ?
Mrs. Dalloway merges psychological realism with an evolved aesthetic
or poetic self-consciousness. Illustrate with examples from the text.
Evaluate Raja Rao’s Kanthapura as a critique of British colonial and
imperial rule.
Answer all of the following :
(a)
(b)
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How does Joyce portray the artist’s struggle for independence and the
role of creativity in Stephen Dedalus’ life ? Elaborate.
Bring out V.S. Naipaul’s vivid portrayal of the decay of Hindu culture
and cultural clash in the multi-racial society of Trinidad in reference to
A House for Mr. Biswas.
Critically comment on exploitation and dehumanisation ೩5 brutal
realities of industrialization with reference to Lawrence’s Sons and
Lovers.
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