Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. What are the major features of Aristotle's concepts in "Poetics"?
2. Sidney's "Apology for Poetry" is a work which has rightly been valued as one of the outstanding performances in English criticism and one which inaugurated a new phase in the history of criticism. What is your opinion? Explain with arguments.
3. "It is not the greatness, the intensity of emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts." Explain this statement in the light of Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent".
4. Evaluate Belsey's work "Critical Practice" as a critic.
5. What are Raymond Williams' views regarding Culture and Tragedy? Discuss in detail.
6. Criticism is an effort "to see things as they are, without partiality, with obtrusion of personal liking or disliking". What is your opinion?
7. Critically examine any ONE of the following poems.
(i) How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a traveled man that knows
What he talks about
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And may be what they say is true
Of wars and warm's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And hold her my my arms!
(W.B. Yeats)
(ii) The silver swan, who living had no note.
When death approached, unlocked her silent throat,
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
Farewell all joys! O death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.
(Anonymous)
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