Subjective / Written Questions (25)
1. Analyze Hardy's treatment of nature and renewal in “The Darkling Thrush”.
2. Discuss memory, separation and emotional change in “The Voice”.
3. Examine Hopkins's concept of beauty in “Pied Beauty”.
4. Discuss religious struggle in “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord...”.
5. Analyze the apocalyptic vision of “The Second Coming”.
6. Discuss parental anxiety and moral hope in “A Prayer for My Daughter”.
7. Examine modern alienation in Eliot's “Prufrock”.
8. Discuss the elegiac structure and tone of Auden's “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”.
9. Compare the treatment of modernity in any two prescribed poems.
10. Discuss symbolism and imagery in the prescribed modern poetry.
11. Discuss Macbeth as a tragedy of ambition and moral choice.
12. Analyze the role of the supernatural in Macbeth.
13. Examine Lady Macbeth's characterization and transformation.
14. Discuss the theme of guilt and conscience in Macbeth.
15. Analyze Shakespeare's use of imagery and symbolism in Macbeth.
16. Discuss the political meaning of kingship and tyranny in Macbeth.
17. Explain the function of soliloquies in Macbeth.
18. Discuss the relationship between prophecy and human action in Macbeth.
19. Analyze the tragic significance of Banquo's character.
20. Discuss the dramatic importance of sleep and insomnia in Macbeth.
21. Discuss the central themes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
22. Analyze the psychological dimension of the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.
23. Discuss social and cultural concerns in Anita Desai's “A Farewell Party”.
24. Analyze the treatment of masculinity, mortality and loss in Mansfield's “The Fly”.
25. Discuss R.K. Narayan's characterization and themes in The Guide.