B.A. 5th Semester (Major) Examination, 2026
ENGLISH
Course ID: 50311 | Course Code: A/ENG/501/MJC-9
British Literature: The Early 20th Century (NEP)
Time: 2 Hours
Full Marks: 40
(1×10=10)
1. Answer any one of the following questions:
- a) Discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a Künstlerroman.
- b) Examine the recurrent images and symbols in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
- c) Elaborate on the central theme of love and marriage in Shaw's Candida.
- d) Discuss Shaw's Candida as a domestic comedy.
(1×10=10)
2. Answer any one of the following questions:
- a) Analyse Eliot's use of imagery in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.
- b) Comment on the theme of individuality and urban anonymity in 'Street Haunting: A London Adventure'.
(2×5=10)
3. Write short notes on any two of the following:
- a) John Millington Synge
- b) A Passage to India
- c) Psychological novel
- d) British poets of the 1930s
(5×2=10)
4. Answer any five of the following questions:
- a) Mention two biblical allusions used in the poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.
- b) "A mind Michael Angelo knew / That can pierce the clouds, / Or inspired by frenzy / Shake the dead in their shrouds;" — Bring out the significance of the above lines.
- c) When and why does the narrator go out into the streets in 'Street Haunting: A London Adventure'?
- d) What do the mermaids symbolise in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?
- e) "The nineteenth autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count;" — Briefly point out the context.
- f) What is the significance of the two brushes of Dante?
- g) "Tower of Ivory, they used to say, House of Gold!" — Bring out the significance of the phrases "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" here.
- h) What is "Prossy's complaint"?
- i) "Candida here, and Candida there, and Candida everywhere!" — What makes the speaker say this?
- j) What, according to Stephen, is the difference between "static" and "kinetic" emotions in art?
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