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Bankura University English Honours Suggestion 2024  

Semester-5 Paper C-12

Bankura University

Semester-5 English Honours Suggestion 2024

C-12

1.Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) Discuss Emily Dickinson’s “I Cannot Live With you” as an unconventional love  poem.

b) How did Plath treat and improvise the biblical narrative of Lazarus in her poem “Lady Lazarus”? Critically discuss.

c) Elaborate after Eunice De Souza the advice to help women deal with treacherous partners as imaged in her poem.

d) “Dickinson’s ‘Because I could not stop for death’ is an exploration of the cyclical nature of life and death” - Elucidate.

(e) Comment on Emily Dickinson treatment of the theme of death in “Because I could not stop for Death.”

(f) Attempt a study of Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ as a specimen of confessional poetry.

2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) Explore critically the symbols employed by Charlotte Perkins Stetson in her short

story “The Yellow Wallpaper”.*****

b) “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a serious critique of society’s attitude towards mental

illness. Elaborate critically.

c) Discuss how the relationship with the wallpaper turns out to be both traumatic and cathartic for the protagonist of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.*****

d) The story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ strongly indicts the stranglehold of patriarchy over the medical system as also over the human urge for creativity. Explore.

(e) Discuss the significance of the title “The Yellow Wallpaper.”2020 ,2023

(f) ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is a women’s cry for her creative freedom.’—Discuss.

3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) How far is the title of Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” justified? Discuss.

b) How does Mahashweta Devi rewrite myth and history in her story “Draupadi”?

Discuss.

c) Comment critically on the use of images and symbols employed by Mansfield in her short story ‘Bliss’.

d) Maheswata Devi’s short story ‘Draupadi’ presents a scenario where the woman’s body becomes at once a tool of oppression as well as potent weapon in the hands of the subaltern for staging a protest. Discuss with reference to the story.

(e) ‘Bertha is a women who is herself unaware of her true self or desires.’ Attempt a critical

study of Bertha in this light.

(f) How far is Mahasweta Devi’s Dopdi (in her story “Draupadi”), a revision of the role,

character and temperament of Draupadi in the original epic?

Part-A 

 Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2= 10

a) What do the “recess” and the “ring” signify in Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not

Stop for Death”?

b) “An engine, an engine/ Chuffing me off like a Jew”— Comment briefly.

c) In what context did the speaker-poet refer to the expression “peanut crunching

crowd”?

d) “Cats return to their litter trays/ when they need to”— Comment briefly.

e) “Don’t cuss out of the window/ at their enemies”— Briefly contextualize.

f) “You see he does not believe I am sick”— Who is referred to as “he”? Which

sickness is being talked about?

g) Why did the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” prefer the room downstairs initially?

h) “Behind that outside pattern the dim shape gets clearer every day”— Comment on

the “shape”.

i) How can you interpret the postures of the “creeping”, “crawling” woman?

j) “It makes me think of English places that you read about…”— Why did the narrator

in “The Yellow Wallpaper” say so?

Part-B

Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2 = 10

a) “We paused before a House that seemed/ A Swelling of the Ground” – Briefly comment.

b) Why does the narrator of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ hide her journal from John and Jennie?

c) “I cannot live with you-/ It would be Life” - Bring out the paradox in these lines.

d) What role does Mary play in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’?

e) “Dying / Is an art, like everything else” - What does the poet imply in these lines?

f) What does the husband in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ think about his wife’s mental condition?

Why is he against her engaging in “congenial work”?

g) What does the poetic persona manage to do once in every ten years in ‘Lady Lazarus’?

h) “…And there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother” - Identify the speaker. What does

the speaker suggest by the statement?

i) “Every woman adores a Fascist” - Explain.

j) What according to the narrator of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is one of the main reasons behind

her delayed response to treatment?

Part-C

Answer any five of the following questions: 2×5=10

 (a) Mention one gentlemen like behaviour of Death from Dickinson’s Poem ‘Because I Could

not stop for Death’.

 (b) “I could not die—with you’—What reasons did the poet give for the same?

 (c) “…will teach you/to die alone”—What is the implication of the underlined expression?

 (d) Why was the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper so obessed with the wallpaper of her

bedroom?

 (e) Where does the narrator take up residence for summer in “The Yellow Wallpaper”? Which

room, in that novel would the narrator prefer to live in?

 (f) Why was the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper struck by remorse? Answer briefly.

 (g) What are the restrictions imposed by the narrator on her husband?

 (h) What ailment is the narrator suffering from? What is the narrator’s own opinion about the

ailment?

 (i) Why does the poet persona in ‘Daddy’ no more fear the ‘black shoe’?

 (j) What does Sylvia Plath mean by the phrase “dying is an art”? 

EXAMINATION  QUESTION 2024