How are new words formed through affixation and compounding? Give examples of both.
See Answer →Discuss Hardy’s approach to the natural world, as expressed in Far from the Madding Crowd.
See Answer →Explain the significance of the symbols employed in ‘Morte d’Arthur’.
See Answer →Justify the title of Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man.
See Answer →Tennyson as a representative poet of Victorian England
See Answer →The ‘Porter Scene’ in Macbeth.
See Answer →Hardy’s classification of his own novels.
See Answer →Thomas Hardy and the fictional region of Wessex
See Answer →Explain the following passages with reference to the context.
1. “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be king stands not within the
prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? Or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting.”
2. “Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: -
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind? A false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
3. “How strange it is to be talked to in such a way! You know, I’ve
always gone on like that. I mean the noble attitude and the thrilling
voice. I did it when I was a tiny child to my nurse. She believed in
it. I do it before my parents. They believe in it.”
4. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
I have lived my life, and that which I have done
May He within himself make pure!”
Critically analyze the story Swimming Lessons by Rohinton Mistry.
See Answer →Discuss the style and themes of the poems of Nissim Ezeikel with special reference to the poems prescribed in your course
See Answer →Analyze the story and title of A Tiger for Malgudi
See Answer →What is novel? Discuss its various aspects
See Answer →Explain the reference to the context of the following:
(i) The new poets still quoted
The old poets, but no one spoke
In verse
Of the pregnant woman
Drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
(ii) Fed on God for years
All her feasts were monotonous
For the only dish was always God
And the rest mere condiments.
(iii) May the sins of your previous birth
Be burned away tonight, they said
May your suffering decrease
The misfortunes of your next birth, they said
(iv) O Bird of Time, say where do you learn
The changing measures you sing?
In blowing forests and breaking tides
In the happy laughter of new made brides
Describe Orwell’s experience of shooting an elephant in Burma in detail.
See Answer →‘On Seeing England for the First Time’ is laced with sarcasm and irony with a thread of pathos running through it. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer quoting examples from the text
See Answer →Attempt pen portraits of both Albert and Victoria as seen in Strachey’s biography Queen Victoria.
See Answer →Write an appreciation of Gandhi’s art and craft of autobiography.
See Answer →Write an appreciation of Gandhi’s art and craft of autobiography.
See Answer →Write a detailed note on Aitken’s prose style as seen in the two extracts from Travels by a Lesser line.
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