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Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU)

UPRTOU MAEN-110(N) Solved Assignment 2026-27

Session: 2026-27 Max. Marks: 30
Program Name: MA English
Course Code: MAEN-115 (N)
Course Title: Literature and Environment

NOTE: All Questions are Compulsory

SECTION-A
Q.No. NOTE: Short answer type question (approx. 150 to 200 words)
1 Define Ecocriticism.
2 Explain the significance of Agni Sukta in the Rigveda.
3 Define Ecofeminism with reference to Vandana Shiva’s Women in Nature.
4 Write a short note on Binsey Poplars as an environmental poem.
5 What is the theam of Wordsworth’s The World Is Too Much With Us?
6 Discuss the imagery in Hopkins’s Spring.

SECTION-B
NOTE: Long Answer Type Question (approx. 350 to 500 to words)
7 Analyse the environmental vision presented in the Atharva Veda’s Prithavi Sukta.
8 Critically Examine Lyn White’s essay ‘The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis’ and its relevance to contemporary environmental issues.
9 Discuss the ecological significance of Dilip Chitre’s “Felling of the Banyan Tree”.