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First B.A./B.Com. Examination, May/June 2009 (DE – Revised SIM Scheme) ENGLISH LANGUAGE – I Poetry, Prose, Fiction and Language Component

Date : 25-5-2009 Time : 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Max. Marks: 90

Note : i) Read the instructions carefully. ii) Answer all questions without omitting any Section. SECTION – A I. Annotate four of the following : a) And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight b) Death closes all, but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, c) Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue d) And inward ripeness doth much less appear Than some more timely happy spirits endueth e) Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all triumphant splendour on my brow f) This casket India’s glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box g) Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; h) Three Years She Grew Three Years She Grew in sun and flower Then nature said, “A loveliest flower” On earth was never sown;

P.T.O.

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SECTION – B II. Answer two of the following in not more than a page and a half each : (2×9=18) a) What are Wordsworth’s views about nature and Lucy in “Three years she grew” ? b) Describe Belinda’s dressing table in your own words. c) What is the central theme of the poem “How Soon Hath Time” ? d) How does Gray describe the simple folks of a village in his elegy ? SECTION – C III. Answer two of the following in not more than a page and a half each : a) What are Bacon’s views about studies ? b) How does swift describe Hinyhnhnms and the yahoos ? c) Narrate the story “The widow and her son” in your own words. d) Describe Mathilde Loisel’s trivial pleasures and her starting discovery at the end of the story “The Necklace”. SECTION – D IV. Answer any two of the following in not more than a page and a half each : (2×9=18) (2×9=18)

a) Explain the seven commandments...