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Chil Services (Main) Examinatio, 2/2.
PHKM-B-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 is 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) ... somewhere in sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
(W.B. Yeats) 10
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
... There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
(T.S. Eliot)
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
(W.H. Auden)
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break.
(Philip Larkin)
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poets only sang of the floods.
(A.K. Ramanujan)
Q2. Answer all of the following :
(a)
(b)
(c)
10
10
10
10
15+15+20=50
Bring out the dichotomy between body and soul presented by W.B. Yeats
in the poems “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium”.
15
T.S. Eliot exploits the potential of myth and history to comment on his
contemporary society.
Analyse the statement in reference to the poems prescribed in the
syllabus.
15
Illustrate the distinctive features of colonialism and post-colonialism in
reference to some literary texts.
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20
Q3.
Q4.
Answer all of the following : 15+15+20=50
(a)
Discuss W.H. Auden’s engagement with contemporary social, political
and religious issues in reference to some of his poems prescribed for your
study. 15
(b) Critically examine Philip Larkin’s portrayal of the turmoils of post-war
scenario in the poems prescribed in your syllabus. 15
(c) Explain the meaning of feminism, and discuss its various phases of
evolution in the 20 century. 20
Answer all of the following : 15+15+20=50
(a) Bring out the elements of Indian sensibility as reflected in
A.K. Ramanujan’s poems prescribed in your syllabus. 15
(b) Analyse critically the depiction of a woman in the institution of marriage
(c)
by Osborne in the play Look Back in Anger. LS
Illustrate the characteristic features of Absurd Theatre with special
reference to the play Waiting for Godot. 20
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Q5.
Qe.
Q7.
SECTION B
Answer all of the following in about 150 words each: 10x5=50
(a) | Comment on the ending of the novel Sons and Lovers after the death of
Gertrude Morel. 10
(b) Discuss Raja Rao’s success in fusing ‘history’ and ‘myth’ in the novel
Kanthapura. 10
(c) Analyse James Joyce’s interweaving of ‘myth’ in the narrative of his
novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10
(d) Illustrate the use of ‘stream of consciousness’ as a narrative technique in
the novel Mrs. Dalloway. 10
(e) Comment on the significance of the title of the novel A House for
Mr Biswas. 10
Answer all of the following : 15+15+20=50
(a) Discuss the role of Marlow as a narrator in Lord Jim. 15
(b) Comment on the portrayal of women characters in E.M. Forster’s novel
A Passage to India from a feminist perspective. 15
(c) Critically analyse the father — son relationships as depicted in A House
for Mr Biswas in the context of tradition and exile. 20
Answer all of the following : 15+15+20=50
(a) Bring out the conflicts arising out of Paul Morel’s relationships with
three women characters, namely Gertrude, Miriam and Clara in the
novel Sons and Lovers. 15
(b) Critically analyse how the elements of realism and fantasy are conflated
(c)
in Conrad’s Lord Jim in order to produce an image of the Orient through
Patusan. 15
Comment on Raja Rao’s delineation of Gandhian ideology in the novel
Kanthapura. 20
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Q8. Answer all of the following : 15+15+20=50
(a) The concluding statement of A Passage to India — “Not now, not yet” —
locates the estrangement between individuals on the axis of power. Do
you agree ? Give the answer on the basis of your understanding of the
novel. 15
(b) Discuss Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as a feminist novel. 15
(c) Critically examine the reflections of the religious, political and cultural
contexts discernible across the narrative in A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man. 20
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