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1.

Write your critical response to the follorving poem. by Vikram Seth, addressing its
tiile, form and content :

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Last night a storm raged round, the bare oak tree,

A cold, sharp rain fell; wild in pace
The ice-fed air swirled free
Now in this place

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No trace
Of winci or lee,
No grass, flo earth-the space
Is a clear lake, deep as my knee
reach its edge and -view, far down, ffiy face.

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I wad.e out to the bench, set dorvn my wine,
My bread and cheese, and like some sage
Of old, sit down
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I do nbt rage
Or Pine
At oge,
This pool, this piate, this page ,
This tree whose roots are branch and tine
Holds me in its stitl hourglass, its free cage

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study of non-literary cultural forms-iilms, advertisements'

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2. How trseful is the
of the literary process? Elaborate'
prograrnmes, internet sites' etc'-to our understanding
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shapes socio-politico-economic relations."
"Literature does not onlY reflect but also
positions concerning literature that )'ou are
agree? Elaborate with reference to theoretical
familiar with. '

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3.

Discuss' \Yith detaj-Ed

What does the term 'Renaissance' mean?
referreC to bY tl:is term. h=-uv
play pertaining to the period norrnall)'

:r::renr: :3 any one

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It is no longer unusual .to read Shakespeare through
aCdress -frrt?Y such e r-.'=ing ir
offer a postcolonial reading of it, artd
ShakesPeare PlaY,

productive.

illustrate Gloria Anzaldua's

from'postmodern Arnerican literature to
is with'the
when he or she writes. a 10t of tirn-es it
observation that , "& minority rvriter " '
his or het
the need to explain, interpret and' present
desire, the imperative, the urge' or
the erastlre by the dorninant culture" '...
culture against the silencing, the repression,

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Is it productive to apProach the literatures
either in supportoforagainsttheunderstandingc
bound,aries? write an essay arguing
literature as a kind of 'national' expression.

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ury English'literature shaped i'our ur:ders:a::iir

century
How has your study of nineteenth
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;imagination" 'demicrtiy"
'"1u'""" 'family' and lore? Answer
of 'reason', 'emotion',
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samuel raylor coleridge, willia:reference to the texts written by
Dickens and Thornas HardY'
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An essay
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write an
work you enjoy particularly'
choose two Romanlic poets whose
etc,
ag the ballad, the lyric' the ePic'
valiei
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experiments
formal
their

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How relevant is the- study of classical Indian theory, like the Rasa theory, to the
understanding of contemPorary indian literature and culture? Answer with reference to
any literary text of Your choi.ce.
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The field of English li,terari studies", one ma)' argue, IS an outmoded discipline. S/rite
an essa\/ exarnining the Cisciptine of English studies, in a world r,vhere the centrality of
English no longer obtains.

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