Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Define and discuss the characteristics of Tragedy brought about by Aristotle.
2. An Apology for Poetry is one of the most important contributions to literary theory written in English during the Renaissance. Discuss.
3. Criticism is "a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world".
4. Accordian to Eliot tradition is a living culture which is inherited from the past and also has an important function in formating the present. Discuss.
5. "There is no justice and no external law, but there is hurt and revenge, exposure and hatred; a simply human struggle." Explain with reference to Raymond Williams' concept of tragedy.
6. What are those characteristics of Belsey's criticism which make her a great critic in the modern times?
7. Critically analyze any ONE of the following poems.
(i) A Sindhi Woman
Bare foot, through the bazaar,
And with the same undulant grace
As the cloth blown back from her face,
She glides with a stone jar,
High on her head
And not a ripple in her tread.
Watching her cross erect
Stones, garbage, excrement and crumbs
Of glass in the Karachi slums,
I, with my stoop, reflect;
They stand most straight
Who learn to walk beneath a weight.
(ii) The Feed
Holding a grain of millet in her beak
The mother sparrow has come to feed.
The young ones are so tiny and small
From head to tow they are beaks
When they cry.
One grain to be fed the ten young ones
To whom the mother sparrow should feed?
Conjuring beak with beak
With whom should she solace?
Fissuring the atom
You have learnt to weep and wail in a loud tone,
Splitting the grain,
You have learnt to set life on foot
Could you split the grain?
One grain to be fed to the ten young ones.
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