JPSC Civil Services 2012: 4Th Combined Civil Services (Main) Exam, ENGLISH L&L PAPER 2

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      10.   (a)   Consider the chestnut tree and .the
                  dancer in thelast' stanza of Yeats' poem,
                  Among School Children as unifying
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                  symbols of the poem.                              20                                    PAPER-II
            (b)   Examine the structure of Shakespeare's
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                  play, As You Like It                              20
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      11.   (a) Show how Yeats' poem Byzantium is                                                                                          "




                  built round    a   set   of contrasts   and                       Candidates are required to answer Question No. 1
                  repetitions.                .•                    20               which is compulsory and four other questions,
            (b)   Attempt a character-sketch      of Emma.          20                        choosing two from ,each Group

                                                                                    1.   Answer any four of the following questions
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                                                                                         (a) Discuss The Tempest as a play depicting
                                                                                               the relationship between rthe colonizer
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                                                                                         (b)   Comment on Hamlet's   I   ;
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                                                                                         (c)   What are the Irish elements                          in the
                                                                ,   .                          writings of W. 8. Yeats?


                                                                                         (d)   Comment on the imagery                          of Eliot's
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                                                                                               poem, The Waste Land.
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                                                                                         (e)   Evaluate As You Like It as a Romantic
                                                                                               comedy.
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                (f)   Examine    Paradise Lost as an epic.                   5. _(a)        Discuss the" u~eJ of irony in Yeats' ,
                                                                                            treatm~nt  of. t the, Ifamiliar notion of
                (g)   What is the significance       of the   title,                    f   the ,com~ng \ pf) a,l .new god in The
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                (h)   Do you agree with the view that                             ,rb)!> lA!te~pt a S~aIjf!;S~t;r.~~~etclt"
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                      Sue Bridehead      is the most masterly                             Copperfield. _\ .J).~ ....     •. q       20
                      exploration of the limits of liberation-in
                      Victorian   society in Hardy's       novel,            6.   (a)       Discuss the role of Satan       in Milton's
                      Jude the Obscure?                                                     Paradise Lost.                                   ..20

                                                                                  (b)       Is Shakespeare's     play,   Henry
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                                   GROUP-A'                                                 historical: play?                                '20

           2.   (a)   Is Hamlet really mad or does he merely
                      encourage the idea that he is 'insane'                                            GROUP-B
                      for some secret purpose?                         20
                                                                             7. (a)         Consider 'A prayer for my daughter'       as a
                (b)   Consider   Easter,   1916 as    a political                           sequel to The Second Coming.                      20
                      poem.                                            20         (b)       Discuss the significance     of Ariel's role
                                                                                            in The Tempest.                                   20
           3.   (a)   Comment on the narrative technique                     8.   (a)       Examine   the   structure       of    Eliot's
                      of George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch             20                   The Waste Land.                                   20
                (b)   Evaluate Wordsworth's attitude to the                       (b)       Discuss the symbolic       significance    of
                      world of Nature in The Prelude.                  20                   The Rainbow.                                      20

                                                                             9.   (a)       Show how in Sailing to Byzantium, an
           4.   (a)   Examine   the   relationship  between                                 old man solves the problem of age,
                      Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest. 20                              death and regeneration.                           20

                (b)   Bring out the Victorian characteristics                     (b)       Is Hardy's Jude the Obscure a deadly
                      in Jane Austen's novel, Emma.                    20                   war waged between flesh and spirit?·
                                                                                            Evaluate critically.                 20

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