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MA English Karnataka Open University Mysore question papers

SECTION - A


1. a) Examine how Puritanism affected the English society in the 16th century?
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b) Show how Chaucer gives us vivid portraits of his pilgrims in The Prologue. Illustrate by using any two examples.
2. Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s central concerns in Faerie Queene- Book I.
3. What are the chief characteristics of metaphysical poetry? Discuss with reference to at least two poems of Donne.
4. Consider George Herbert as a devotional poet.
5. Analyse in detail Andrew Marvel’s ‘The Garden’.
6. Sketch the character of Satan in Paradise Lost- Book I.
7. Examine Milton’s ‘’Lycidas’’ as a pastoral Elegy.
SECTION – B

8. ‘’The Book of Job is a great work of art not inspite of but because of its religious concern’. Discuss.
9. Do you think that Bacon’s essays are ‘dispersed meditations’. Discuss.
10. Explain how ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress shows the way to the Eternal city’.


SECTION – C

11. a) Examine Dr.Faustus as a medieval morality play turned into a renaissance tragedy.
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b) ‘’In Dr.Faustus the underlying conflict is between the Renaissance conception of knowledge as power and the Christian notion of forbidden knowledge and damnation’’. Elucidate.
b) Comment on Auden’s critique of ‘’The Unknown Citizen’’.
12. a) Do you think that Jonson in Volpone adheres to his concept of comedy that it should ‘spot with human follies, not with crimes?
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b) ‘’Gold is the new centre of the Volpone universe, around which all existence now circles and from which it must draw its life’’. – Discuss.

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