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Questions paper of year:04; term:01

Department of English
Noakhali Science & Technology University
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2018
Department of English Session: 2014-2015
Course Code: ENG-4103 (3C) Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
b) The homely Nurse doth all she can
To make her foster- child, her Inmate Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came
c) Away! away! for I will fly to thee
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy, NIN(//\\//)
d) Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incarnation of this verse
e) Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind .
f) Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now
g) Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean. .
h) And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King
Who make up a heaven of our misery

02. In "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", Wordsworth attempts to reconcile the loss of the "visionary
gleam" of childhood with the growth of the philosophic mind of adulthood. Elucidate. 10
03. Discuss the role of the speaker as a narrator in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 10
04. Comment on Blake as a social critic. 10
05. Comment on Shelley's optimism with reference to Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark. 10
06. Discuss Keats as a romantic realist with reference to the poems you have read. 10
07. 'Keats delighted in the ways in which beauty, in both natural and human forms, revealed the truth
about life. To what extent can you agree with this comment about Keats' poetry? 10
08. Discuss Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" as an illustration of romanticism. 10
09. Make comparisons between William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience with
reference to some of his poems. 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4103 (3C) Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

(A) And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.
(B) Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
(C) But oh! That deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedam cover
A savage place!
(D) Their colours and their forms, were than to me NIN(//\\//)
An appetite; a feeling and a love
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied,
(E) Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
(F) Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
(G) Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
(H) He holds him with his glittering eye-
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years’ child:
The mariner hath his will.

02. How does Blake pit himself against despotic authority, restrictive morality, and institu-
tionalized religion? Discuss . 10
03. Is the speaker in "Ode to the West Wind“ a representative of all mankind or is he unique
or special in some way? Discuss. 10
04. How does Coleridge in his “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” portray the natural world
before and after the Ancient Mariner shoots the Albatross? 10
05. How does Shelley turn the bird’s song into a source of poetic inspiration in his poem
“To a Skylark’? What is Shelley’s philosophy implicit in the flight of the bird? Discuss. 10
06. What does the speaker in “Ode on Intimations of Immortality" feel he has lost as he has
grown past childhood? What does he feel he has gained? 10
07. How does “Kubla Khan” move from being a simple recreation of a vision into an affirmation
of the power of imaginative poetry? 10
08. Is P.B. Shelley an impatient revolutionary poet among the Romantic poets? How does he
depict his revolutionary idealism and hope for a better world in his poetry? 10
09. How does the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintem Abbey” appear pantheistic? 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2016
Department of English Session: 2012-2013
Course Code: ENG-4103 (3C) Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a. An orphan’s curse would drag to hell e. Yet if we could scorn

A spirit from on high; , Hate, and pride, and fear;
But oh! How more horrible that that If we were things born
Is the curse in a dead man’s eye! Not to shed a tear,
b. Weave a circle round him thrice, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
And close your eyes with holy dread, f. Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
For he on honey-dew hath fed, Like wither’d leaves to quicken a new birthlt
And drank the milk of Paradise. g. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
c. These beauteous forms, To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Through a long absence, have not been to me Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As IS a landscape to a blind man's eye: As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf.
d. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, h. And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, And be like him and he will then love me.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

02. Comment on the role of the Mariner as a narrator in the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. 10
03. What role does the speaker’s ‘dear friend’ play in the poem “Tintern Abbey”? Why is it important
that she is present as an addressee? 10
04. Discuss Wordsworth’s treatment of childhood with specific reference to “Ode Intimations
of Immortality ". 10
05. Discuss Coleridge’s symbolism in the poem “Kubla Khan". 10
06. How do the poems “The Lamb” and “The Tiger” reflect the romantic concern with the nature
of good and evil? 10
07. What ideas other than death and rebirth could you infer from the poem “Ode to the West Wind”? 10
08. How does Skylark in “Ode to Skylark” contrast human limitations? 10
9. How does Keats’ poem “Ode to Nightingale” relate to the theme of conflict between the ideal
and the real? 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2016
Department of English Session: 2011-2012
Course Code: ENG-4103 (3C) Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) When thy mind
Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,
Thy memory be as a dwelling place
For all sweet sounds and harmonies;
b) And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks my words among mankind !
c) I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome!
d) We look before and after NIN(//\\//)
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
e) Away!away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
f) He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
g) Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
h) Arother race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live.
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears.

2. Discuss Wordsworth's myth of pre-existence in "Ode: Intimations of Immortality". 10

3. Illustrate the quality of enchantment in Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". 10
4. Evaluate Shelley's optimism with illustrations from his poem "Ode to the West Wind". 10
5. Discuss Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" as an illustration of romanticism. 10
6. In Wordsworth's poetry memory is the key to sustain the connection betwcen the
iadividual and the nature. Discuss in the light of "Tintern Abbey". 10
7. Discuss Keats' use of imagery in "Ode to a Nightingale". 10
8. Why would you consider Shelley as a visionary poet? Answer from your reading of
his ode "To a Skylark ". 10
9. What prophetic vision and serious thinking over the facts of contemporary sociel
life are apparent in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience? 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2014
Department of English Session: 2010-2011
Course Code: ENG-4103 (3C) Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied,
b) But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
c) The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!
d) But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted NIN(//\\//)
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place!
e) Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
f) Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
g) Like a poet hidden
In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden,
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:
h) Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
I) Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!
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02. How does Wordsworth view the past the present and the future as his tintern abbey.?
03. Discuss Wordsworth's attitude to childhood in his " Ode: Intimation of Immortality ".
04. How do the two parts of Kubla Khan establish a unique definition of poetry and poet?
05. How does Coleridge secure " Willing Suspension of Disbelief " in " The Rime of Ancient Mariner"?
06. Keats' poem begins in sensuousness and and ends in thought.Elucidate with reference
to the poems you have read.
07. Consider Blake as a poet of revolt against social injustice in the light of your reading the
poems of the Songs of Experience.
08. How does "Ode to the West Wind" embody Shelley's idea of revolution?
09. What does the skylark in Shelley's "To a Skylark " stand for? How does it contrast
with human limitation?

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2018
Department of English Session: 2014-2015
Course Code: ENG-4105 (3C) Course Title:literary Criticism
Time: 4 Hours Marks : 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. (a). Explain with reference to the context (any two): 5x2 = 10
i) That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy and comedy cannot
be denied....
ii) More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to ipterpret life
for us. to console us, to sustain us.
iii) The mind revolts from the evident falsehood, and fiction loses its force when it
departs from the resemblance of reality.
iv) If he is a dubious classic, let us sift him; if he is false classic, let us explode him.
(b) Write short notes (any two): 5X2=10
i. The Poet according to Wordsworth
ii. Depersoralization of poetry
iii. Esemplastic power
iv. Difference between prose and poetry

02. How does Johnson in Preface to Shakespeare argue that the classitication of Shakespeare's
plays into comedies and tragedies is artificial? 10
03. Arnold's practice of touchstone method in The Study of Poetry can be said to have the same
defects as the critical methods of the personal estimate that he condemns. Do you agree? Give
reasons for your answer. 10
04. Why, according to Eliot, is true historical sense indispensible to a poet? How can a poet acquire it?
05. Discuss Arnold's assessment of the age of Dryden and Pope in The Study of Poetry. 10
06. How does Wordsworth explain ard defend his convict on that 'humble and rustic life ' can
be appropriate subject for poetry?
07. From your reading of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, make an assessment of his theory of poetry.
08. How do you consider the faults of Shakespeare as mentioned by Samuel Johnson? 10
09. Compare Arnold and Eliot according to their views on poetry . 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4105 (3C) Course Title:literary Criticism
Time: 4 Hours Marks : 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. (I). Explain with reference to the context (any two): 5x2 = 10
(A)He makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the
virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked.
(B) They are irresistible, and justify all the rapture with which his successors speak of
his ‘gold dew-drops of speech.
(C) In poetry, which is thought and art in one, it is glory, the eternal honour, that charla-
tanism shall find no entrance.
(D) that what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most
considered is best understood.

(II). Write short notes on any two of the following: 5x2 = 10

(A) Primary and secondary imagination;
(B) Tradition and history;
(C) Wordsworth's poetic diction;
(D) ‘Willing suspension of disbelief’;
(E) Poet as a catalyst;

02. What merits does Dr. Johnson find in Shakespeare? Answer in reference to Preface to
Shakespeare. 10
03. “His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.” Discuss in reference to
Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare. 10
04. Why does Arnold in The Study of Poetry argue that the future of poetry is immense? 10
05. Who, according to Arnold, are the poetical classics? What shortcoming does Arnold
discern in Chaucer and Burns as poetical classics? 10
06. What contradictions does Coleridge detect in Wordsworth’s theory of poetry in
Biographia Literaria? 10
07. Compare and contrast between T.S. Eliot and William Wordsworth in light of their
views on poetry. 10
08. How does Wordsworth defend poetry’s place as ‘the most philosophic of all writinng’? 10
09. What is the relationship between “tradition" and the “individual talent”, according to TS Eliot? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017
Department of English Session: 2012-2013
Course Code: ENG-4105 (3C) Course Title:literary Criticism
Time: 4 Hours Marks : 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4 = 20

a) He is a man speaking to men, a man it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility,
more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature:
b) While an author is yet we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when
he is dead, we rate them by his best.
c) A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content
to lose it.
d) Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from
emotion recollected in tranquility.
e) Good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and
imagination the soul that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one
graceful and intelligent whole.
f) His superiority in substance is given by his large, free, simple, clear yet kindly view of
human life.
g) Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon
the poetry.
h) Short passages, even single lines, will serve our tum quite sufficiently.

02. How can poetry, according to Arnold, become a criticism of life? 10

03. What is ‘tradition’, according to T.S.Eliot? Why does Eliot think ‘tradition’ so important for a
budding poet? 10
04. From your reading of Biographia Liter-aria define and distinguish between Fancy and Imagination. l0
05. What are the main characteristics of the Romantic Age? Consider Wordsworth and Coleridge
as the Romantics with reference to Preface to Lyrical Ballads and Biographia Literaria. 10
06. How does Johnson evaluate Shakespeare’s portrayal of characters in Preface to Shakespeare ? l0
07. Discuss Arnold’s assessment of the age of Dryden and Pope in The Study of Poetry. 10
08. What democratic sentiments does Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads embody? 10
09. ln Preface to Shakespeare,-why-dees Johnson argue that the classification of Shakespeare‘s
plays into comedies and tragedies is artificial? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4105 (3C) Course Title:literary Criticism
Time: 4 Hours Marks : 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any two): 5x2 = 10

a) Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.
b) The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an
awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past's awareness of
itself cannot show.
c) The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
d) Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion
recollected in tranquillity.
e) They are irrlesistible, and justify all the rapture with which his successors speak of his
'gold dew drops of speech.
f) Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea, the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our
religion today is its unconscious poetry.
g) His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.

2. What is Johnson's opinion about Shakespeare's mingling of the comic with the tregic in
Preface to Shakespeare ? 10
3. Discuss how Johnson defends Shakespeare's disregard of the unities in Preface to Shakespeare. 10
4. Examine Arnold's views on historical and personal estimates of poetry in The Study of Poetry.
How can the Touchstone Method be applied to judge the standard of poetry? 10
5. What does the expression "willing suspension of disbelief" signify in Biographia Literaria? 10
6. Compare and contrast Wordsworth's and Coleridge's ideas of poetry. 10
7. In your opinion, how well does Wordsworth, in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, support his
definition of a poet as "a man speaking to men?" 10
8. Evaluate Eliot's theory of Impersonality of Poetry illustrated in his
"Tradition and the Individual Talent." 10
9. Who according to Arnold are poetical classics ? What shortcoming does Arnold discern
in Chaucer and Burns as poetical classics? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2014
Department of English Session: 2010-2011
Course Code: ENG-4105 (3C) Course Title:literary Criticism
Time: 4 Hours Marks : 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. (I). Explain with reference to the context (any two): 5x2 = 10

a) .... that willing suspension of disbelief fer the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
b) For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...
c) Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upan the poetry.
d) in the productions of genius, nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compared with
other works of same kind.
e) The best poetry is what we want; the best poctry will be found to have a power of
Forming, sustaining, delighting us, as nothing else can.
f) Good sense is the body of poetic genius, faney its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the
soul that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
g) But for poetry the idea in everything, the rest in a world of illusion, of divine illusion.
h) He makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the
virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked.

2. What does T.S. Eliot mean by "tradition ? How can we tell what is traditional?
What relationship, according Eliot, should the witer have to the writings of the past? 10
3. Evaluate Coleridge's definition of 'lmagination' and 'Faney'. 10
4. Evaluate Coleridge's views on Wordswarth's theory of poetic diction. 10
5. Write an essay on Wordsworth's concept of poetry. 10
6. What are the main characteristies of Romantic Age? Consider Wordsworth and Coleridge
as the Romantics with reference to Preface to Lyrical Ballads and Biographia Literaria . 10
7. Why does Johnson in his Preface to Shakespeare call Shakespeare the poet of nature? 10
8. What weaknesses of Shakcspeare does Johnson identity in his Preface to Shakespeare?
9. On what grounds does Arnold in The Study of Poetry assert the superiority of Cheuear's
Poetry over the romance poctry? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2018
Department of English Session: 2014-2015
Course Code: ENG-4107 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Drama & Poetry )
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) ...Cowering
Beneath your monstrous ego I ate the magic loaf and
Became a dwarf
b) The more I searched, the less I found.
c) Only the children and the old stay here, bondsman. Only the innocent and the dotards.
d) May the position purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition
they said....
e) The horn of plenty through a bitter cup.
In lonely exaltation blaming me
For all whom race and exile have defeated
f) This heirloom,
his skeleton under my skin, passed
from son to grandson,
generations of snowmen on my back.
g) Coming back to the basics,
the lungi is an elaborate fig-leaf,
The foundation of propriety
in ordinary mortals.
f) The crunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?

02. Arun Kolatkar portrays in his poetry the reality that is familiar, yet unnoticed. Explain. 10
03. Comment on the depiction of Indianness in Nissim Ezekiel's poetry. Do you find the poet
critical about Indianness in his stereotypical portrayal ? 10
04. Would you consider Kamala Das to be an iconoclast? Clarify your stance. 10
05. Criticalily comment on the duality that is evident in Derek Walcott's poetry. 10
06. How does Kaiser Haq use a casual dress lungi to comment on various serious issues of
discrimination in his "Ode On The Lungi"? 10
07. How does Agha Shahid Ali evaluate the British colonial rule in India while looking back
to the Dacca gauzes? 10

08. How does Walcott treat various racial, cultural and colonial issues in his poems ? 10
09. Write an essay juxtaposing the characters Igwezu and Kadiye as portrayed by Wole Soyinka
in his play The Swamp Dwellers. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4107 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Drama & Poetry )
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

(A) I am freak. It’s only
To save my face, Iflaunt, at
Times, a grand, liamboyant lust.
(B) My backward place is where I am.
(C) The new poets still quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.
(D) My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spared my children.
(E) I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
(F) In history we learned: the hands
Of weaves were amputated,
The looms of Bengal silenced,
(G) Now try wearing one
to a White House Appointment
Not even you, Grandpa Walt,
laureate of democracy,
will make it in.
(H) No, they won’t let me out of winter,
and I've promised myself, even if I’m the last snowman,
that I’ll ride into spring
on their melting shoulders.

02. What are the significant themes in A. K. Ramanujan's poetry? Discuss.

03. How has Wole Soyinka symbolically portrayed multifaceted struggle of human existence in The Swamp Dwellers?
04. Do you find any implicit tension between ‘Indian' identity and ‘individual’ identity in Nissim Ezekiel’spoetry? Explain.
05. Kamala Das delves deep into women psychology in her poetry. Discuss.
06. Comment on Derek Walcott’s treatment of colonial history and its legacy in his poems.
07. How is Walcott’s loyalty divided in A Far Cry From Africa? Is there any one-way solution for him? Justify your answer.
08 What are the more serious issues in Kaiser Haq’s Ode 0n the Lungi besides the use of aparently trivial elements?
09. What extent is Agha Shahid Ali successful in bringing a nostalgic sense of loss in his poems?
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017
Department of English Session: 2012-2013
Course Code: ENG-4107 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Drama & Poetry )
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a. I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
b. I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.
c. This is one: to stay where I am,
As others choose to give themselves,
In some remote and backward place.
My backward place is where I am.
d. a dead art now, dead over
a hundred years. “No one
now knows,” my grandmother says,
“what it was to wear
or touch that cloth.”
e. The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
f. at the end of bumpy ride with your own face on the
either side
when you get off the bus.
You don’t step inside the old man’s head.
g. but these young people ...... They are no sooner born than
they want to get out of the villages as if it carried a plague ......

02. How does Wole Soyinka portray moral and cultural decay in his play The Swamp Dwellers?
Explain . 10
03. How did Dom Moraes deal with the theme of disorientation and dispossession in his poetry ? 10
04. Do you find a sense of loss and lamentation in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry? Discuss. 10
05. Kolatkar’s use of imagery and symbolism emphasizes the theme of alienation. Explain. 10
06.Nissim Ezekiel’s poetry represents asearch for race, culture and identity. Explain . 10
07. Discuss how cultural tensions and dilemma of hybrid identities have found expression
in Walcott’s poetry . 10
08. What confessional tone do you find in Kamala Das's poetry ? 10
09. Comment on how Kaiser Haq uses comic elements to express serious issues in his
poems you have read. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2015
Department of English Session: 2011-2012
Course Code: ENG-4107 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Drama & Poetry )
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) My very flesh and blood! Each seems a petal
Shriveling from its core. I watch them burn,
By the nerves' flare I catch their skeletal
Candour! Best never to be born,
The great dead cry.
b) The wise survive and serve-to play
The fool, to cash in on
The inner and the outer storms.
c) You begin to recognize me
as I pass from ghost to real
and back again in the albums.
d) Her mother's dowry, proved
Genuine when it was pulled, all
Six yards, through a ring.
e) The heart,
An empty cistern, waiting
Through long hours, fills itself
With coiling snakes of silenc...
f) My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spend my children
g) I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
h) .... And the next time that you wish to celebrate the stopping of the rains,
do not choose a barber whose harvest rots beneath the mire.

2. Show the instances of powerful family tie you notice in Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers. 10
3. Discuss the character of the Kadiye. 10
4. Discuss the tone of dualism found in Walcott's poetry. 10
5. Discuss some of the salient features of Kaiser Haq's poetry. 10
6. How does the spirit of Indianness find expression in the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel? 10
7. How does Ramanujan treat conventional human relationships in his poems? 10
8. How do you consider Kamala Das's making of feminine sexuality in her poems? 10
9. Comment on the writing techniques of South Asian poetry in English. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2014
Department of English Session: 2010-2011
Course Code: ENG-4107 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Drama & Poetry )
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) Is there land here which a man can till? Is there any land to spare
for a man who is willing to gi soul to the soil?
b)....And the next time that you wish to celebrate the stoppng of the
rains, do not choose a barber harvest rots beneath the mire.
c) Statisties justily and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy
d) The horn of plenty through a bitter cup,
In lonely exaltation blaming me
For all whom race and exile have defeated,
For my own uncle in America,
That living there I could never look up
e) My mother twisted throngh asd throuyl:
d) your own divided face in the pair of glasses
on an old man's nose
is all the countryside you get to see
f)... it carries away
in the first half-hour
three village houses,
a couple of cows

02. To what extent can lgwezu be considered to be a tragic figure in The Sweamp Dwellers?
03. How is crisis of identity focused in Walcott's poetry? Discuss.
04. 'Alienation' is the main theme of the poenm "The Gultimately" by Derek Walcott. Discuss.
05. Why is the world referred to as unreal in 'Night of the Scorpion' by Nissin Ezekiel?
06. Comment on the use of wit, humour and irony in Kaiser Huq's Poems.
07. What common themes do you notice in the Indian Poems in English you have read?
08. Examine Walcott's revolt against colonization in his poetry.
09. From your reading of his poems make an assessment of Ramanujan's writing style.
Or
Examine the conflict between modernity and tradition in The Sweamp Dwellers.

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2018
Department of English Session: 2014-2015
Course Code: ENG-4109 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Fiction)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth.
We do not pray to have more money but to have more kinsmen.
b. White pecple here! Didn't you tell us many times how they live, there. A room to sleep in,
another room to eat in, another room to sit in, a room with books.
c. I would have felt proud to call myself an Albert Mission boy.
d. If I offended you, if I hurt your dignity, if what I thought was my friendliness, the feeling
I had for you--if that hurt your feelings... I know I didn't know and I should have known.
e. Suddenly they saw why they were so different from their brother, so inferior and
negligible in comparison: it was because they did not wear trousers.
f. Everybody laughed heartily except Okonkwo, who laughed uneasily because as the sayin
goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
g. Music is one of the greatest joys we can have on earth. If one has that pleasure, then one
can bear almost anything in life.

02. Discuss Naipaul's attitude to Indian heritage in A House for Mr. Biswas. 10
03. Form your reading of Things Fall Apart, comment on Chinua Achebe's treatment of the
conflict between African and European values. 10
04. R.K Narayan has portrayed conflicts of the characters in The Guide from the perspective
where romarce and reality are intermingled. Discuss with references. 10
05. How is power redistributed after the black revolution in the narrative of July's People?
Examine who dominates and who is subordinated among the novel's main characters. 10
06. How does Anita Desai explore the psychological state of the female characters in her
Clear Light of Day? 10
07. What relationship between social status and self-perceptions can be found in Nadine
Gordimer's July's People? 10
08. What sort of disintegration takes place in the Igbo society of Chinua Achebe's
Thing Fall Apart? 10
09. How does Anita Desai disperse and unite the members of Das family in her novel
CLear Light of Day? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4109 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Fiction)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

(A) Wait for Anand. Wait for Savi. Wait for the five years to come to an end. Wait..Wait.
(B) His body is evil, and only strangers may touch it.
(C) If you show me a single home without a problem, I shall show
you the way to attain a universal solution to all problems.
(D) If I say go, they must go. If I say they can stay so they stay.
(E) I can feel it coming up under my feet, up my legs-
(F) "But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness.”
(G) She was already not what she was.
(H) This man will finish me before I know where I am.”

02. Discuss the significance of the setting in Things Fall Apart with particular emphasis
on how it helps us to understood Achebe’s philosophy. 10
03. July’s People is a novel of apartheid inequality in South Africa. Explain. 10
04. In The Guide it is actually Narayan who tried to give us a message regarding leading
an Indian life. Explain. 10
05. Clear Light of Day deals with the theme of ‘time as destroyer, time as preserver’.
Show wit examples from the text. 10
06. Make a brief account of the structure and technique of The Guide. 10
07.Give a brief character sketch of Maureen in July’s People. 10
08. What is the concept of universality in the novel The Guide? Discuss . 10
09. (A) Okonkwo at the end of Things Fall Aparts almost exactly the same as he is at the
beginning. Elucidate. 10
OR
(B) Discuss Naipaul's attitude to Indian heritage in A House for Mr. Biswas.

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017
Department of English Session: 2012-2013
Course Code: ENG-4109 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Fiction)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

i. Mr. Biswas has no money or position. He was expected to become a Tulsi.
ii. “But we like to come, Bim. We must comeif we are not to lose touch, I with all of you,
with home and he with the country.
iii. He stepped into it, shut his eyes and turned towards the mountain, his lips muttering the prayer.
iv. White people here! Didn’t you tell us many times how they live, there.A room to sit in,
another room to eat in, another room to....
v. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because
such a failure does not prick its pride.
vi. She can still hear the beat, beyond those trees and those, and she runs towards it. She runs.
vii. All that narrow nation may be true of old days, but it’s different now. ThingSYEe ve changed.
There is no caste or class today.
viii. You do not know what is to speak with one voice. And what is the result? An abominable
religion has settled among you.

02. What is the cultural conflict in Nadine Gordimer’s July's People? Discuss. 10
03. Comment on Naipaul’s treatment of the theme of selfhood in A Housefor Mr. Biswas. 10
04. Is Okonkwo destined for tragedy or did his choices lead him to his tragic end? Explain. 10
05. Who are July’s people in Nadine Gordimer’s novel July's People? Elaborate. 10
06.Make a brief account of Rosie’s character in The Guide. 10
07.Comment on Anita Desai’s art of characterization in Clear Light of Day . 10
08. Do you agree that Obeirika in Things F all Apart is a kind of foil to Okonkwo? Discuss . 10
08. Can Narayan’s The Guide be called a picaresque novel? Give reasons for your opinion. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2015
Department of English Session: 2011-2012
Course Code: ENG-4109 (3C) Course Title: New Literatures English (Fiction)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four):

a) But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weskness.
b) Get out, all of you, and leave me alone, I am not the man to save you.
No power on earth can save you if you are doomed.
c) Taught you to execute your will. Be strong. Face challenges. Be dccisive.
d) Tell him we never travel any more. Tell him we could not come, but he should come.
e) Whatever you do, this boy will eat up his own mother and father
f) Wait for Anand. Wait for Savi. Wait for the five years to come to an end. Wait. Wait.
g) His body is evil, and only strangers may touch it.
h) How everything goes on and on here, and never changes.

2. Justify the title of Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas. 10

3. Anita Desail's Clear Light of Day is a novel about the partion of a family as well as
a nation. Discuss. 10
4.Do you agree that Okonkwo is both an individual and a type? Justify your answer. 10
5. Discuss Naipaul's attitude to Indian heritage in A House for Mr. Biswas . 10
6. What transformation do you notice in the character of Raju in R K Narayan's The Guide? 10
7. Bring out the contrast between the characters of Bim and Tara in Clear Light of Day. 10
8. What picture of Indian society and culture has beeh pertrayed in The Gude? 10
9. From your reading of Things Fall Apart, comment on Chinua Achebe's treatment of the
conflict between African and European values. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2018
Department of English Session: 2014-2015
Course Code: ENG-4111 (3C) Course Title: American Poetry (19th and 20th century)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a. I would admire the deep gravity of it, its timeless eyes

I would know you were serious
b. Baby at play I was washing the flood
Now they won't give us any more food
The pieces are here in my celluloid purse
Innocent baby play our death curse
e. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord
A scented gift and remembrance designedly dropt
d. How dreary - to be -Somebody!
How public-like a Frog-
To tell one's name-
e. The gaps I mean,
No one has sean them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there
f. There interposed a Fly
With Blue- uncertain-stumbling Buzz
Between the light - and me-
g. Oh, I kept the first for another day
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
h. I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you
And you must not be abased to the other

02. How does Whitman combine the individual and the universal in Song of Myself? 10
03. Death is an ever-present reality in Sylvia Plath's poetry. Discuss this statement with reference
to her poems. 10
04. "The dramatic aspects of Dickinson's poetry can both disturb and delight readers. " To what
extent do you agree or disagree with the above statement? Justify. 10
05. Why does Frost choose to write about everyday life in a rural environment? What is effect of
this choice on his poetry? 10
06. Why does Ginsberg criticize the internationel community in his "september on Jessore Road"? 10
07. How might Emily Dickinson's poem " I felt a funeral in my brain" represent women's
quest for knowledge? 10
08. "Frost sees in nature a symbol of man's relation to the world. Though he writes about a forest
or a wildflower, his real subject is humanity." Connect this statement to some of his poems. 10
09. Whitman's poetic mesage is the transcending of time and achieving a philosophy of death. Discuss. 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017 (To be held in April 2018)
Department of English Session: 2013-2014 (EB-4)
Course Code: ENG-4111 (3C) Course Title: American Poetry (19th and 20th century)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

(A) He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
(B) Bengali tongue cried Mister please
Ident'ty card torn up on the floor
Husband still waits at the camp ofhce door
(C) ‘Where do you mean to go? First tell me that.
I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will'
(D) And then the Windows failed- and then
I could not see to see-
(E) Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
(F) I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
(G) Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
(H) I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul.

02. Describe Whitman's idea of self. What is the signihcance of the title “Song of Myself”? 10
03. In the poem "Daddy", portraying her father as a Nazi figure and herself as a Jew, Sylvia Plath
dramatizes the war in her soul. Explain. 10
04. Describe how Whitman portrayed the relationship between the concept of body and soul. 10
05. “Emily Dickinson’s vision of death and immortality is wonderfully conveyed in verse of stark
grandeur and intensity.” Discuss this view, supporting your answer giving quotation from or
reference to the poems of Dickinson. 10
06. “Communication is one of the major themes in Frost's poetry." Elucidate the statement with
reference to his poems. 10
07. How effectively do you think Sylvia Plath portrayed personal feelings and experiences
through the confessional verses? Illustrate. 10
08. How does AIen Ginsberg capture the images of refugee migration in his great poem
“September on Jessore Road”? 10
09. Do you think that Emily Dickinson has universalized her private feelings? Justify your answer. 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2017
Department of English Session: 2012-2013
Course Code: ENG-4111 (3C) Course Title: American Poetry (19th and 20th century)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
b. Is it impossible for you to let something go and have it go whole?
Must you stamp each piece in purple,
Must you kill what you can?
c. 'I shall laugh the worst laugh I ever laughed.
I’m cursed. God, if I don’t believe I’m cursed.’
d. Do l contradict myself?
Very well then i contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
e. Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d advertise you know!
f. For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
g. What should we care for our cities and cars?
What shall we buy with our Food Stamps on Mars?
How many millions sit down in New York ,
and sup this ni ;ht’s table on bone and roast pork?
h. With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew. (“Daddy”, Sylvia Plath)

02. Dickinson is often described as a poet of "inwardness". What do you think this means?
How does Dickinson convey the inner workings of the mind in her poems ? 10
03. What are some of the American ideals that are explored in Frost’s poems? 10
04. How does Whitman “CELEBRATE myself, and Song Myself' in “Song of Myself”? 10
05. ‘Plath makes effective use of language to explore her personal experience of
suffering’. Elucidate this statement with reference to the poetry of Sylvia Plath. 10
06. What is the “American Dream”? How does Allen Ginsberg satire this ethos and
draw the world’s attention to the sufferings of Bangladeshi refugees in his poem
“September on Jessore Road”? 10
07. How did contemporary events shape the technique and content of Whitman’s
poetry? Explain with reference to “Song of Myself”. 10
08. Compare and contrast two of Dickinson‘s poems that deal with the subject of death. 10
09. Comment on the wowan ‘hero’ in Sylvia Plath’s poetry. 10
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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2015
Department of English Session: 2011-2012
Course Code: ENG-4111 (3C) Course Title: American Poetry (19th and 20th century)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a) The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows

My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
b) Out of ash
I rise with my red hair
And eat men like air.
c) I sound, to commence, the cry, with thee, O soul,
The Past! The Past! the Past!
d) Pity us millions of phantoms you see
Starved in Samsara on planet TV.
e) I made a model of you,
“A man in black with a Meinkampf look .
f) Since then — "tis Centuries — and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses” Heads
Were towards Eternity -
g) One can see What will trouble
This sleep of mine, Wnatever steep it is.
h) Or l guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrance designedly dropt,

2. Discuss Whitman's use of symbols and imagery in Song of Myself. 10

3. Dickinson's poetry is an assertion of her 'self' against an orthodox world. Illustrate. 10
4. "Whitman is most self-consciously American. " Illustrate the truth of this statement with
reference to Sang of Myself. 10
5. Plath's later poems exhibit the conflict between her obsession with death and her wish
for a poetic rebirtih. Explain with examples from your reading of Plath's poems. 10
6. What images of the refugee camps do you get frem your reading of "September on Jessore Road"
by Allen Ginsberg? 10
7. How does Sylvia Plath celebrate female creativity, passion and dominance in the poem "Three Women"?
8. How does Frost use pastoral setting to bring out a particular mood in his poems? 10
9. To what extent is it correct to describe Frost as a 'modern' poet? 10

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Noakhali Science and Technology University

Year-IV Term-I Final Examination 2014
Department of English Session: 2010-2011
Course Code: ENG-4111 (3C) Course Title: American Poetry (19th and 20th century)
Time: 4 Hours Marks: 70
[Attempt question No. 01 and five others. Figures In the right margin indicate marks ]

01. Explain with reference to the context (any four): 5x4=20

a.Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
b. Where are the President's Armies of Gold?
Billionaire Navies merciful Bold?
Bringing us medicine food and relief?
Napalming North Viet Nam and causing more grief?
c. Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.
d. And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space–began to toll,
e. I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
f. He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
g. We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
h. May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return.
02. How is the idea of democracy expressed in Whitman's Songs of Myself? 10
03. In her treatment of nature Emily Dickinson is different from the romantic poets. Elucidate. 10
04. What New England elements do you find in Robert Frost's poetry? Discuss in the light
of the poems you have read in. 10
05. How does Ginsburg portray the atrocity of the war of 1971 in "September on Jessore Road"? 10
06. Plath's personal suffering is demonstrated with political events of history. Explain, giving
reference to the holocaust images she used in her poems. 10
07. How is the idea of deth and immortality handled by Emily Dickinson? Answer with
reference to her poems . 10
08. What dark and sombre aspects of life do Frost's poems reveal? Answer with reference
to the poems you have read. 10
09. What picture of final relationship do you find in Sylvia Plath's poetry? 10
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