My Dream World

MA III Sem English Paper IV (American Literature): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Walt Whitman as poet of democracy 2. Discuss Robert Frost as a pastoral poet. 3. What do you know about expressionism? Show that The Hairy Ape is a great expressionistic play. 4. What do you understand by 'Transcendentalism'? Explain with reference to the essays you have read.

MA III Sem English Paper III (Indian Writings in English): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions - 1. Discuss R.N. Tagore as a poet. 2. Give a summary of Wings of Fire by Kalam. 3. Discuss Badal Sircar as a playwright. 4. Discuss Anita Desai as a novelist. 5. Give a character sketch of Savitri. 6. Sketch the character of Maya of Cry, the Peacock .

MA III Sem English Paper II (English Language): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on language covering its definition, its function, its characteristics and development of English language. 2. Write a short note on any three: i. Diachronic approach ii. Synchronic approach iii. Phonemes iv. Register v. Difference between phonetics and phonology. 3. Write about cardinal vowels/ English vowels (Pure Vowels & Diphthongs) and Consonants. 4. What do you mean by TGG in context of linguistics? Write in detail. 5. Write with diagrams (where necessary) about the organs involved in articulation of speech sounds.

MA III Sem English Paper I (Critical Theory): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Aristotle’s theory of imitation. 2. Discuss Longinus’s five sources of sublimity. 3. Discuss Wordsworth’s theory of poetry. 4. Discuss Eliot’s theory of impersonality.

MA I Sem English Paper IV (Prose): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any three of the following Questions: 1. Write a detailed note on Francis Bacon covering his essays prescribed for you. 2. How does Republic start? Name of the characters participating in discussion. Also write about the content of Book II. 3. Write about IV Chapter of The Autobiography or My Story. 4. Write a note on William Hazlitt and his essays.

MA I Sem English Paper III (Fiction): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Discuss Don Quixote as a parody of chivalric romance. 2. Discuss Tom Jones as a picaresque novel. 3. Discuss Charles Dickens as a social reformer with special reference to Great Expectation s. 4. Discuss Kenilworth as a historical romance.

MA I Sem English Paper II (Drama): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Sketch the character of Shakuntala. 2. Discuss Hamlet’s madness. 3. Discuss Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. 4. Sketch the character of Viola. 5. ‘ Dr. Faustus reflects the spirits of renaissance’. Discuss.

MA I Sem English Paper I (Poetry): Questions for CCE Dec. 2022 Note: Attempt any two of the following Questions: 1. Write a note on Milton’s use of epic similes. Illustrate your answer from Paradise Lost Book I. 2. Write a note on Chaucer’s art of characterization. 3. Discuss characteristics of Metaphysical poetry. 4. Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a mock epic poem.

Note: Attempt any two of the following questions: 7.5x2= 15 Paper III (Indian Writings in English) 1. Discuss R.N. Tagore as a poet. 2. Give a summary of Wings of Fire by Kalam. 3. Discuss Badal Sircar as a playwright. 4. Discuss Anita Desai as a novelist. 5. Give a character sketch of Savitri. 6. Sketch the character of Maya of Cry, the Peacock. *********

  Note: Attempt any two of the following questions: 7.5x2= 15 Paper II (Drama) 1. Sketch the character of Shakuntala. 2. Discuss Hamlet’s madness. 3. Discuss Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. 4. Sketch the character of Viola. 5. 'Dr. Faustus reflects the spirit of renaissance’. Discuss. ********

  Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet VI) is an artistic sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is as follows: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thy self were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee living in posterity? Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

 ' Those hours, that with gentle work did frame' is a fantastic sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is sonnet no. 5. It is as follows: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

 'Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend' is a beautiful sonnet by William Shakespeare. It is sonnet no. IV. The complete sonnet is as follows: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live? For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive: Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee, Which, used, lives th' executor to be.

'Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest' is the 3rd sonnet by William Shakespeare. The complete sonnet is as follows: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.

William Shakespeare is a great writer of sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains. Each quatrain consists of four lines. At the end there is a couplet. The rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef and gg. The following sonnet (Sonnet no. 02) is an example of Shakespearean sonnet. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-On-Avon on 25 April 1564. He died on 23 April 1616. He is an eminent poet and playwright of the Renaissance in England. His poems are Venus and Adonis (1593), The Rape of Lucrece (1594), The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601) and the Sonnets (1593-1603). The sonnets of William Shakespeare were published in the Quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Works in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. They are dedicated to Mr. W.H. It is he who is considered to be the begetter of Shakespearean sonnets. A controversy exists about the identity of Mr. W.H. Perhaps he is William Herbert, the eldest son of the second Earl of Prembroke by his third wife, Mary Sidney. William Herbert was born in 1586. In 1601 he became the third Earl of Prembroke. Shakespeare has composed 154 sonnets. These sonnets form two groups. The first group (1 to 126) is addressed to a smart young man and the second group (127 to 154) to a dark lady. The young man appears as a lovely boy. His social pos...

The discovery of the modern novel is a typical gift of the 18th Century. It is the original contribution of England to the world of literature. The novel as a popular genre began with Richardson's Pamela in 1740. But the root of the English novel plunges deep through the centuries. In the 14th and 15th centuries the novel was in the process of formation. In those early days the novel was in the form of romantic tales based upon adventures and romantic episodes. A certain amount of prose fiction did exist in the 16th and 17th centuries also. The Beginning: Malory's Le Morte Darthur is a noticeable romance. It was the first English romance. With this book the English novel took a distinctive forward step. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales have all the qualities of the latter day fiction. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer produced the first English novel. Another great work of value before the Elizabethan fiction was Thomas More's Utopia . Thus in early days Chaucer and More...

Christopher Marlowe is one of the greatest playwrights of Elizabethan England. He was the most shining star among the University Wits . He is appreciated in the entire world for the establishment of powerful dramatic blank verse. In spite of a very short career of play writing , his achievements are diverse and splendid. Swinburne calls him ‘the first great English poet, the father of English tragedy and the creator of blank verse’. Christopher Marlowe was baptized in a church at Canterbury, England, on February 26, 1564. He was the son of John Marlowe who was a shoemaker of Canterbury. He is known as Kit Marlowe too. His early years were spent in Canterbury. He received his school education at King’s School Canterbury. After that with the help of a patron he went up to Cambridge in 1581 and obtained his degree in 1583. Arthur Compton Rickett says, “Of his life after 1583, little is known”. Christopher Marlowe was a versatile genius. He acquired vast knowledge which is displaye...

The period from 1660 to 1700 is named as the Restoration period. The people of England were suffering from tension due to strict rule of Cromwell. That is why the nation welcomed the Restoration of Charles II. In 1660 King Charles II was brought to the throne. This Restoration brought about a revolutionary change in the social life and literature of England. The following characteristics distinguish this period: 1. The Restoration: King Charles II was a thorough debauch. He was immoral. He had a number of mistresses. He was surrounded by corrupt courtiers all the time. Due to king’s carelessness and weakness corruption was rampant in all walks of life. Thus during this period integrity, spiritual zeal, moral earnestness and decorum were thrown to winds. 2. Religious and Political Quarrels: In the Restoration period we see the rise of two political parties. They were the Whigs and the Tories. The Whigs were opposing and the Tories were supporting the king. The rise of these part...

Introduction: The age of Chaucer is the first significant period in the literary history of England. In every walk of life there were signs of change. The social, political, religious and literary changes were taking place. In short, it was an age of change. An Age of Transition: The age of Chaucer was a transitional age. The medievalism was departing and modernism was developing slowly. Wycliffe and his followers were sowing the seeds of Reformation. They were making attack upon the church. Individualism was being emphasized. Military events were contributing to the growth of patriotism and national consciousness. The industrial development was giving rise to the middle and working classes. It led to the end of feudal system. In this way we find that the age of Chaucer was an era of transition. Growth of National Sentiment: The age of Chaucer witnessed the beginning of the Hundred Years War. England was at war with Scotland and France. This war brought great victories in the bat...

The drama before Shakespeare found its full flowering with the dramatists called the University Wits . These dramatists were well-educated scholars. They wrote in the closing years of the 16th Century. This name of University Wits was given to them because they were nearly all educated at Oxford or Cambridge University. Wit was the synonym for scholar. All the University Wits have several features in common. They had stormy careers. All of them were actively associated with the theatre. They were usually actors as well as dramatists. They understood the requirements of the stage and felt the pulse of the audience. They often worked in collaboration with each other. Their store material was also common. With these dramatists English drama reached the highest point of glory. In many ways they developed English drama. Christopher Marlowe was the most shining star among the University Wits . Others were Lyly, Peele, Greene, Lodge, Nash and Kyd. John Lyly : As a dramatist Lyly occupies ...