CSS English Literature Past Paper 2001
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. “All that is valuable in Blake is in his lyrics.” Discuss.
Q. No. 3. “If nature leads to God, she also leads to Man.” Discuss the significance of the human element in Wordsworth’s Prelude in the light of this statement.
Q. No. 4. In the best of Shelley’s poetry, there is a splendour of movement and realization of visionary intensity. Discuss it with reference to Shelley’s poems.
OR
How do the Odes of Keats reflect his growing concern with the relation between art and life, beauty and reality?
SECTION-II
Q. No. 5. ‘Above all, Charles Lamb was a refined humanist whose smile could be both satirist and tender.’ Discuss this statement with reference to his essays.
OR
What was the general, social, economic, and moral atmosphere in the Victorian age? Write your answer with reference to the writings of Ruskin.
Q. No. 6. “People are Browning’s passion: men and women, revealed through their ambitions and failures, love and hatred.” Discuss with reference to his poems.
Q. No. 7. “The novels of Hardy are of intensely dramatic and epic nature; his characters move progressively towards a crisis.” Discuss it with reference to his novels.
Q. No. 8. Write short notes on the following:
(a) Tennyson as a consummate craftsman in verse
(b) Humour and pathos in Dickens’ novels
Paper-II
PART-II (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. No. 2. Hamlet suffers and suffers greatly. Can you account for his suffering?
Q. No. 3. It is said of Jane Austen that she involves the ‘Critical Intelligence’ of her readers. The prevailing interest is not only in ‘aesthetic delight’ but also in a sense of moral conviction. How far is this true of her Pride and Prejudice?
Q. No. 4. How does Yeats create ‘terrible’ beauty out of his imagery?
Q. No. 5. Comment on Swift’s policy that imperfections in nature are for stirring up human industry, with reference to his Gulliver’s Travels.
Q. No. 6. Is The Waste Land a public or private poem?
Q. No. 7. Hemingway is preoccupied with the human predicament and a moral code that might satisfactorily control it. Discuss with reference to his The Old Man and the Sea.
Q. No. 8. Write a critical note on any ONE of the following:
(a) Robert Frost as a regional or a pastoral poet
(b) Jane Austen’s novels are the work of a miniaturist