Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya

Third Year Pre-final Examination

Paper- VII
Full Marks- 100
Time- 4 hours

Unit-I
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 10x1=10
Section-A
a. Write a critical note on the death consciousness in “Do not go gentle into that Good
Night.”
b. Write a critical appreciation of “Sir No Man’s Enemy.”

Or,
Section-B
a. Examine “The Whitsun Weddings” as a post-Keatsean poem.
b. Write how Hughes dealt with the theme of postlapsarian fall in “The Hawk in the Rain.”

2. Explain the following passages and add critical comments: (any two) 2 x (2+4)=12
Section-A
a. All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.

b. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

c. Far off like floating seeds the ships

Diverge on urgent voluntary errands,
 And this full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer through the water saunter.
d. Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.

Section-B
Or,
a. And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled
A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower
Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.

b. Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

c. Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox

It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.

d. I drown in the drumming ploughland, I drag up

Heel after heel from the swallowing of the earth’s mouth,
From clay that clutches my each step to the ankle
With the habit of the dogged grave, but the hawk
Effortlessly at height hangs his still eye.
3. Answer any three questions: 2x3
Section-A

a. What does the phrase ‘rivers of the windfall light’ mean?

b. Explain the following lines: And a gull lodges

A moment on its sheer side.

c. What does Thomas mean by ‘holy stream’ in “Fern Hill?”

d. Why did Thomas ask his reader to ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light?’

e. What was the occasion of writing the poem ‘Do not go gentle into that good night?’

Section- B

a. What is Whitsun? Wherefrom was Larkin returning by train?

b. What does the phrase ‘parodies of fashion’ mean?

c. What is master fulcrum? Explain the image.

d. ‘Just like his old man’ who is refrred to here and why?

e. What does the phrase ‘midnight moment’s forest’ mean?

Unit-II

4. Answer any one of the following questions: 10x 1=10

Unit-I

a. Write a note on symbols and images in The Room.

b. Describe how The Room dramatizes the theme of hope and despair.

Unit-II

a. Write a note on the character of Thomas Fowler in The Quiet American.

b. Write a note on how The Quiet American revises and combines colonialism and
communism by introducing a Third Force.

5. Explain with critical comment (any two). 2x(2+4)=12

Section- I

a. Me? I can take my pick. (Rising.) You’ll be going out soon then, Mr Hudd? Well, be
careful how you go. Those roads’ll be no joke. Still, you know how to manipulate your van
all right, don’t you? Where you going? Far? Be long?

b. The man. He’s downstairs now. He’s been there the whole week-end. He said that when
Mr Hudd went out I was to tell him. That’s why I came up before. But he hadn’t gone yet. So
I told him. I said he hasn’t gone yet. I said, well when he goes, I said, you can go up, go up,
have done with it. No, he says, you must ask her if she’ll see me. So I came up again, to ask
you if you’ll see him.

c. . I don’t care if it’s – What? That’s not your name. That’s not your name. You’ve got a
grown-up woman in this room, do you hear? Or are you deaf too? You’re not deaf too, are
you? You’re all deaf and dumb and blind, the lot of you. A bunch of cripples.

d. Can’t see. I can’t see. I can’t see.

Section-II

a. I said, “You know, really, it’s as clear as daylight. Pyle knows I smoke a few pipes before
bed, and he doesn’t want to disturb me. He’ll be round in the morning.”

b. “Don’t worry. He’ll come. Make me another pipe.” When she bent over the flame the
poem of Baudelaire’s came into my mind: “Mon enfant, ma soeur....” How did it go on?

c. “Oh, sure,” he said indifferently: he was a serious type. “The Minister’s very concerned
about these grenades. It would be very awkward, he says, if there was an incident- with one
of us I mean.”

d. She put the needle down and sat back on her heels, looking at me. There was no scene, no
tears, just thought- the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of
life.

6. Answer any three of the following: 2x3=6

a. What are you looking at? You’re blind, aren’t you?’-who said this to whom? Why is
person called blind?

b. ‘That’s an insult, for a start.’-what does insult refer to here?

c. ‘He hasn’t given me any rest. Just lying there. In the black dark. Hour after hour.’- Who
said this and on what occasion?

d. ‘You’re not only a nut, you’re a blind nut and you can get out the way you came.’-Who is
called blind nut? What does blind nut mean?

e. Do you expect me to see someone I don’t know? With my husband not here too?-who is
the speaker? Comment on the irony in the quoted speech.

Section-II

a. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?

b. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?

c. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?

d. Does Pyle accurately represent American interventionism?

e. Pyle talks a reasonable amount, so why do people call him quiet?

7. Write short notes on the literary terms (Any two) 4x2=8

a. Death of the Author

b. Affective Fallacy and Intentional Fallacy

c. Ambiguity

d. Archetypes and Myths

Unit-IV

8. Answer any two of the following questions: 10x2=20

a. Write a note on the Latin influence on the English Language

b. Write how Science and technology influence the English vocabulary.

c. Write a note on the characteristics of Indian English

d. Makes a comparative study of the British and the American English

9. Write philological notes (any four): 2x4=8

a. egg

b. church

c. daisy

d. smog

e. hodge-podge

f. priest,

g. flower-vase

10. Answer two of the following: 2x2=4

a. Write a note on the strictures of the affricate sounds.

b. Describe the front vowel in English

c. Describe different types of /r/ sounds and mention their usage.

d. What are the air stream mechanism involved in fricatives.

11. Write three term description of the initial consonant sounds of the following words
(any two): 2x2=4

Sugar, school, garage, potato, photograph