Twentieth Century Poetry & Drama — DU B. A. (Prog) English Previous Year Question Papers

(b) "When life loses meaning, so does language." Discuss the statement with reference to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. 7. (a) "Post-modern poetry is a meditation on the impermanence of life. " Discuss with reference to any two post-WWII poems in your course. : (b) Elaborate on how modern European literature makes alienation and absurdity its central concerns in its articulation of human life, with reference to any two texts in your course. 2. Candidates must answer all the questions in Part A and any three questions in Part B. 3. Questions in Part A carry 10 marks each and questions in Part B carry 20 marks each. Write a short note and comment on the significance on : * r 1. (a) "I grow old ... I grow old ../l shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." (b) "The broken wall, the burning roof and tower/ And Agamemnon dead." 2. (a) "But the sun brightened-It brightened, and Crow returned charred black." (b) "Until the next town, new and nondescript,/ Approached with acres of dismantled cars". (b) The tree 4. (a) Explain how, in his poems, TS Eliot depicts human alienation in modern urban society. (b) "WB Yeats uses ancient mythology to explore modern chaos." Discuss. 5. (a) Analyse Ted Hughes' "Crow's Fall" as a cautionary talé on the perils of unchecked ambition. (b) Discuss how Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain" brings out the horrors of war and death in mid-twentieth century Europe. 6. (a) How does Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot identify the modern human condition as an interaction between hope and despair.