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JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1
M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 202
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 30
Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the students. It carries 1 Mark. (50-100 Words)
Q. 1. Answer all the questions:
I. Critically examine the theme of W.B. Yeats “Lapis Lazuli”.
Answer: Yeats delineates two major themes in ‘Lapis Lazuli.’ First, he talks about the old civilizations have been wiped out and how modern civilization also is likely to be obliterated. The allusion to ‘aeroplanes and zeppelins,’ and the destruction of cities is one contemporary theme. Next, he depicts how art and philosophy
II. Why do Gogo and Didi wait for Godot is Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot?
Answer: The subject of the play is not Godot; it is waiting. The act of waiting is indeed an essential characteristic of the human condition. We all wait in our life for something or other- for hope, for relief, for redemption, for
III. What do you mean by the term “absurd drama”? Describe with examples.
Answer: The term ‘ absurd drama‘ or what is called ‘ the theatre of the absurd‘ sounds somewhat queer. After all, how drama, an imitation of life, can be absurd, for life itself is nothing absurd.
Yet, this absurd drama is a hard reality of the modern theatre, particularly after 1950s. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has opened up the show and its successful progeny has established a secure position for the theatre of the absurd.
IV. Discuss the significance of the title of J.M. Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’.
Answer: The title, The Riders to the Sea is a constant reminder of the reality of Maurya’s predicament that the members of her family have a sealed destiny like that of the Pharaoh’s riders. They will ride to the sea with confidence and hope but will never return alive. However, the main difference lies in the fact that the
V. Do you think that the play ‘Saint Joan’ by Bernard Show is a tragedy? Illustrate with reason.
Answer: George Bernard Shaw in his Preface to Saint Joan tells us that it is a high tragedy and not a mere melodrama or a police
VI. Discuss the character sketch of Meg is Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party.
Answer: Meg Boles is a kind woman who helps run the boardinghouse. She is sixty years old and married to Petey in a seemingly childless marriage. Absentminded and simplistic, Meg often asks repetitive questions and
VII. Discuss the character sketch of Tiresias in Eliot’s the Waste Land
Answer: In this part of the Fire Sermon, Tiresias is the narrator. He was an ancient Greek prophet who got punished by Hera for separated two snakes copulating. He was turned into a woman for seven years. Can’t escape earthy
VIII. In what sense has the speaker sailed the seas and arrived in Byzanthium in W.B. Yeat’s ‘Sailing to Byzanthium.
Answer: Being a romantic, an occultist, a politician and a dramatist, he had worn many masks during his lifetime but it was through poetry that he sought to escape the death and decay of the natural world.
The metaphorical journey to Byzantium, his dream city, consolidated this aspiration. The speaker’s wish is to be ‘out of nature’ and to
IX. Discuss the theme of the poet Yeats’ Bronze Head.
Answer: In the bronze work, Yeats sees Maud Gonne as “human, superhuman,” and”supernatural,” as well. He puts down all that occurs to him, from the very firstencounter, when “she walks like a goddess,” not without wildness, though, to theimage of Cathleen-like soul, to the image of her being supernatural with a sternereye. All this
X. How do the trees and the Ploughman build up the image of mortality in the poem ‘At Grass’ by
Ted Hughes?
Answer: the ploughman seeks his own identity in the scheme of nature. from past history of mankind he learns that he will
NOTE: Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 Marks. (4*5=20 Marks) (500 Words).
Q.2 Define ‘Symbolism’ and describe the symbols used by Yeats in the poem “Sailing to Byzantium”.
Answer: Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.
Symbols in “Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B.Yeats are best understood in terms of the ways in which Yeats negotiated with the anxieties of both personal and social implications of modernism.
Six of the most important
Q.3 Do you think that Eliot was influenced by Bhagvad Geeta? Illustrate with examples from Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Answer:
Q4. Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet.
Answer: William Butler Yeats was one of the modern poets, who influenced his contemporaries as well as successors. By nature he was a dreamer, a thinker, who fell under the spell of the folk-lore and the superstitions of the Irish peasantry. He felt himself a stranger in the world of technology and rationalism. He is a prominent poet in modern times for his sense of moral wholeness of humanity and history.
Yeats was a realistic poet though his early
Q5. Discuss the use of ‘animal imagery’ in ‘Ted Hughes’ poetry.
Answer: Ted Hughes uses animal imagery in his poetry for following purposes:
- Symbolism
- Show violence
- Portraying themes and
- Metaphors
Q6. Discuss the character-sketch of Saint Joan in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.
Answer: Joan is the original teenage rebel. This rebel, however, has a cause. She believes down to the marrow of her bones that God has given her a mission. She must make Charles the King of a united France. Unfortunately, her tenacious dedication in pursuing her holy quest aggravates just about
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