University of Calicut Previous Years Question Paper & Answer

University : University of Calicut
Course : B.A

Semester : SEMESTER 1

Subject : Reading Poetry

Year : 2023

Term : NOVEMBER

Scheme : 2015 Full Time

Course Code : ENG 1B 01

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Mark the sense groups in the following passage :

Well, Il let you know the answer as soon as I get the information from a friend of mine.
You must know me

You and I are one player on a stage;

Otherwise

By this hand wearied in washing your feet

Shall have to shatter your image

That is turned into stone.

Write a note on the feminist content and its tone in these lines.

“Schnell Motors - the masculine German engineering makes you a perfect man.”
-What does this ad of motor cars tell you about the established gender roles in society?
“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you
will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” -
Explain how the speaker reacts against established gender roles through this passage.

Iam glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I
will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you.
and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you
treated me with miserable cruelty... . You think I have no feelings, and that I can do
without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall
remember how you thrust me back ... - What trait of the character is revealed in these lines ?

Pick out the sentence in the above passage which the speaker uses to assert her identity.
Comment on it.

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,

Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed.... - Comment on the appropriateness of Terza
Rima in these lines.

(Ceiling 25 marks)

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