English (Paper-A) Second Group
B.A Time: 3 Hrs. Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt all parts of a question together. Be relevant and precise. Over-attempts deserve no credit.
Q.1. Explain with reference to the context any Three of the followings: (7+7+6)
(a) Stood on a great plain in the falling snow;
Ten-thousand soldiers marched to and fro:
Looking for you and me, my dear,
Looking for you and me. Reference:
These lines have been taken from the poem 'Say This City Has Ten Million Souls' by W.H. Auden.
Context:
The poet describes the feelings of German refugees in the new country and the attitude of the people towards them.
Explanation:
The refugees come to a very huge modem city whose population is ten million. The city people lead a mechanical kind of life. Some live in large and grand buildings while many live in small, dirty houses.
“Souls" here mean people who are without bodily feelings, sympathy and desires. The life of the very rich living in mansions and that of the common people living in dirty houses are equally dull, boring and useless. So, these two classes are equally unwelcoming in their attitude towards the people coming from another country as refugees.
(b) What is this life if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
Reference:
These lines have been taken from the poem 'Leisure' by William Davies.
he poet is feeling sorry for the busy life of modem man who has no time to relax and enjoy the beauties of nature.
Explanation:
In these lines, the poet is lamenting on the busy life of modem man who has no time to enjoy the beauty of nature.
He says we have no time to stand under the trees and see the beauty of nature. We are not better than sheep or cows who look at the beauty of nature all around them while grazing in the meadow. We are so much busy in the material pursuits that we forget everything including the beauty of nature which has been created by God for us. He feels sorry for this attitude towards nature.
(c) A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of mount Abora.
Reference:
These lines have been taken from the poem 'Kubla Khan’ by S.T. Coleridge.
Context:
The poet described his dreams in which he saw the surroundings of Kubla Khan's palace constructed to his order in Xanadu. There a holy river flowed through deep caves into an underground sea. There were miles of fertile ground around the castle. Kubla Khan heard the voices of his forefathers.
Explanation:
The poet says that he saw an Abyssinian maid in a dream. She was playing upon a dulcimer, a musical instrument and singing a song about Mount Abora - an imaginary mountain. In the delight of the hearing of the music and song, he imagined all the things of Kubla Kahn's grand castle.
(d) The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since i began,
My eye has permitted no change.
i am going to keep things like this.
Reference:
These lines have been taken from the poem 'Hawk's Monologue" by Ted Hughes.
Context:
In this dramatic monologue, the poet has highlighted the arrogant and despotic rulers. Here hawk stands for such rulers. Like the despotic rulers, hawk, the king of rulers is also power intoxicant due to his physical power and domination over other birds.
Explanation:
The hawk, who stands for the power drunk or despotic rulers says that the sun is at his back. Therefore, he gets all the solar energy. Thus he possesses all the powers. This is why no change has taken place since he began his life as an absolute ruler of all other birds. His eye has not allowed any change in the world of birds. He will continue to keep things in
the same manner.
(e) On this occasion she's an enterprising young lady
who puts on her best frock and calls on me to try to
get her brother the Job of advertising my taxi-cabs.
Reference:
These lines have been taken from the one act play “Smoke-screen" by Harold Brighouse.
Context:
This play tells about the life of a woman Lucy who has been separated from her husband and raising her daughter Primrose who is a young girl now. Lucy married a man who was charming but he was not faithful to Lucy and had bad character. Primrose wants to marry a man George, who is black. Lucy and her sister are concerned about the liberal life of Primrose.
Explanation:
In these lines, Clarice, the friend of Primrose and Lucy the mother of Primrose are talking. Primrose wants to marry the brother of Clarice who is negro. Lucy is not happy on it. She is alleging Clarice that her brother has sent him for his business benefits because Lucy is running a taxi company and George is running an advertising agency. Lucy does not want her daughter marry a black man.
Q.2. Attempt any TWO of the following questions: (200- 225 words each) (10+10)
(i) Do you think that Beatrice in "Rappaccini's daughter" Is a real character of flesh and blood?
Ans: for ans click on this linkRappanies daughter
(ii) How far would you agree that "The Duchess and the Jeweller "depicts the moral decadence of the nobility?
Ans: for ans click on this linkThe Duchess and the Jeweller
(iii) Do you think that the ending of the play "The Boy comes Home is justified"?
Ans: for ans click on this link
"The Boy comes Home is justified"
Q.3. Attempt any TWO of the following questions: (200- 225 words each) (10+10)
(i) The poem "Huntsman" is a blend of funny and the unfunny aspects of life, the elements of suspense and irony create a shocking impact” Do you agree? Explain your answer.
Ans: for ans click on this link"Huntsman"
(ii) What is the significance of the song in "The Solitaryreaper"
Ans: for ans click on this link
"The Solitaryreaper"
(iii) Draw a character sketch of the woman in the poem "Woman work."
Ans: for ans click on this link
"Woman work."
Q: 4 Attempt any two of the follownig questions
(1) Discuss the sigbnificance of the title" whistling of the birds "
Ans: for ans click on this link" whistling of the birds "
(II) What memories of his grandfather does Yeats gather from his childhood?
Ans: for ans click on this linkMemories of grandfather
(iv) What is the importance of saying please?
Ans: for ans click on this link
importance of saying please
Q.5. Attempt any TWO of the following questions: (200-225 words each) (10+10)
(I) Discuus the symbolic significance of Santiago’s struggle to bring Martin to the shore.
Ans: for ans click on this link
Santiago’s struggle
(ii) What role do Dimaggio, Perico and Martin play In the novel "The Old Man And The Sea"? Ans: for ans click on this link
Dimaggio, Perico and Martin play
(iii) What is the moral of the novel ‘The Old Man And The Sea?
Ans: for ans click on this link
moral of the novel ‘The Old Man And The Sea7
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