CSS English Literature Past Paper 2007
Paper-I
PART-II (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II selecting TWO questions from EACH
SECTION. (20×4)
PART-II
SECTION-I
Q. 2 One can distinguish in Wordsworth’s poetry a marked transition from the realm of pathos to that of ethos. Do you agree? Discuss.
Q. 3 Matthew Arnold describes Shelley “a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”. What does he mean? Elaborate.
Q. 4 “Keats had no religion save the religion of beauty, no God save Pan; the Earth was his great consoler, and so passionately did he love her, with a love far more concrete and personal than that of Wordsworth or even Shelley.” Discuss.
SECTION-II
Q. 5 Hardy is neither a feminist, nor a misogynist, but a realist. How far is this statement true? Discuss.
Q. 6 Dickens’ novels reflect the contemporary Victorian urban society with all its conflicts and disharmonies, both physical and intellectual. Discuss.
Q. 7 In what way do we consider George Eliot as the first modern novelist in English Literature? Discuss.
Q. 8 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(a) Swift as a satirist
(b) Byron’s attitude towards nature
(c) Salient features of Blake’s poetry
(d) Ruskin’s prose style
Paper-II
PART-II (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. 2 ‘Hamlet touches on many problems, that troubled the protagonist’s soul, like vengeance, suicide, love, without offering a solution for anyone.’ Discuss.
Q. 3 Jane Austen’s clear-sighted eyes read through the inner minds of those who live around her, just as if those minds were transparent. Comment on her art of characterization.
Q. 4 “His poetry possesses an imaginative mysticism, an essential attribute of Celticism, he has the ability to efface the outlines of material objects in a dreamy mistiness.” Dilate upon Yeats’ poetry, in the light of this remark.
Q. 5 Portray the character of Santiago; do you find a combination of the actual and the symbolic in it?
Q. 6 Give a critical appreciation of Robert Frost’s following poems:
(a) After Apple Picking
(b) Mending Walls
(c) The Tuft of Flowers
Q. 7 In D. H. Lawrence’s work, men and women of our times have found their own restlessness most accurately mirrored. Discuss.
Q. 8 It is said that Shaw tears off veils, and lays bare the half-voluntary illusions of complacently blind souls. How far is it true?