PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. – 2014
ENGLISH LITERATURE (OPTIONAL) PAPER-I
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE: Attempt any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. Question 1 is compulsory.
Q.1. Attempt any two parts:-
a). Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder if I could put a notion in his head: Why do they make good neighbors ? Isn’t it.
b). Away ! Away! For I will fly to thee, not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of poesy, though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
c). And close your eyes with holy dread, for he on honey – dew hath fed and drunk the milk of Paradise.
Q.2. Greek Tragedy is generally believed to be a tragedy of fate. Is this applicable to “Oedipus Rex? Elaborate.
Q.3. Discuss man’s predicament and the possibility of salvation in O’Neill’s play, The Hairy Ape”.
Q.4. The poem “The Second Coming” illustrates Yeats’s theory the cycles history and the rise and fall of civilization. Elaborate.
Q.5. Discuss the use of supernatural and dreamlike quality of Coleridge in his poem -Kubla Khan”.
Q.6. How does John Osborne reflect the moods and sentiments of the angry generation in his play “look back In Anger? Elucidate.
Q.7. Explain with reference to the play,” Death of a salesman”, how Arthur Miller’s tragic vision is distinctively modern?
Q.8. The poem “wasted Land Thy T.S Eliot is a “sad sigh for the vanished glory of the past”.
Q.9. Maya Angelou was strong upholder of ‘Gender Equality” and always raised a voice in favour of female issues with special reference to the black women. Elaborate.