CSS English Literature Past Paper 2003
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. No. 2. For Wordsworth, “The greatest paradox was that though it is by the proper exercise of the eye and ear that man reaches his full moral and intellectual stature… revelation flashes upon him when the light of sense goes out.” Discuss.
Q. No. 3. “Synaesthesia in Keats is a natural concomitant of other qualities of his poetry.” Discuss, illustrating from his poems.
Q. No. 4. “Tennyson worked with words like a jeweler, weighing them against each other, tasting their luster, placing them in their foil; yet they are mostly current coinage.” Discuss.
SECTION-II
Q. No. 5. “Lamb’s essays are lyric poems in prose.” How far is this remark true? Illustrate with special reference to Essays of Elia.
Q. No. 6. Ruskin founded in England what was really a new religion, wherein the quest for beauty in the daily life of all, even the most humble, became a sort of duty. Discuss.
Q. No. 7. Are ‘Dickens the humorist’ and ‘Dickens the reformer’ complementary or hostile to each other? Discuss in detail.
Q. No. 8. Write detailed notes on TWO of the following:
(a) Hardy’s characters are subservient to plot.
(b) Adonis is a triumphant elegy.
(c) Tradition and Individual Talent.
(d) Browning’s obscurity.
Paper-II
PART-II (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. No. 2. Discuss briefly the universality of the text Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
Q. No. 3. Give briefly a critical appreciation of Among School Children by Yeats.
Q. No. 4. “T. S. Eliot considered Hamlet to be an artistic failure.” Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.
Q. No. 5. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been described as a fairy tale, in which the deserving girl gets her prince. Would you say this is a good description? Give reasons for your answer.
Q. No. 6. Jonathan Swift became famous for his political writing. Gulliver’s Travels is often seen as an entertaining political story, but it became very popular as a tale for young people. Give examples from any one of the tales you remember vividly.
Q. No. 6. As a lover of English literature, what impresses you in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land? Give your analysis.7
Q. No. 8. Give a critical appreciation of Robert Frost’s West Running Brook and Desert Places.