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PSSOU The Present Age (1914 AD to 2000 AD) Solved Assignment 2024 (January – December 2024)

PSSOU MA English Solved Assignment 2024

Pandit Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University
Assignment Work
Session – January – December 2024
M.A (English Literature) Previous
Subject – The Present Age (1914 AD to 2000 AD)

(Assignment—1)
Section—A
1. Who wrote ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ ?
2. Which book has influenced T.S. Eliot to write poetry ?
3. Who inspired mystical interest of W.B. Yeast ?
4. Who was the father of John Osborne ?
5. Where was George Orwell borne ?
6. What is the stanza form of ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ ?
7. Who wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ?
8. Who wrote introduction to Bhagwat Gita translated by SwamyPrabhaVananda and
Christopher Isherwood ?
Section—B
9. Write a note on the structure of the poem ‘The Waste Land’.
10. Write a note on symbolism in the poem ‘Sailing to Byzantimum’.
11. Write a note on inspiration of ‘Look Back in Anger’.
12. Write a note on Huxley’s association with Vedanta.
13. Write a note on theme of nationalism in the novel 1984.
14. Write a note on imagery in the poems of W. B. Yeats.
(Assignment—2)
Section—C
Explain the following with reference to the context :
15. And I will show you something different from either.
Your shadow at morning striding behind you.
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in handful of dust.
16. Whatever is be gotten, born and dies,
Caught in that sensual music all neglect.
Monuments of unageing intellect.
17. A starlit or a moolit dome disdains
All that man is
All mere complexities
The fury and the mire of human veins.
18. But what is this ‘Divinity’ ? How shall we define ‘god’ ? Expressed in psychological terms
(Which are primary there is no getting behind them), a god is something that gives us the peculiar kind of feeling which professor Otto has called ‘Numinous’ (From the Latin numen, supernatural being).
(Assignment—3)
Section—D
19. Comment on the structure and style of the poem ‘The Wasteland’.
20. Write a critical appreciation of ‘Sailing to Byzantinum’.
21. Write down a short note on class conflict in ‘Look Back in Anger’.
22. Write a critical appreciation of the essay ‘Meditation on Moon’.
(Assignment—4)
Section—E
23. Comment upon the plot and style of the novel ‘Brave New World’.
24. Write a brief note on the political system described in the novel 1984.