PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE-2019
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE (PAPER – I)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE: Attempt any FIVE Questions in All, Including Question No, 1 which is Compulsory.
Q. No. 1: (a) Explain with reference to the context one of the following: (10 Marks)
(i) I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what 1 assume you shall assume
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
OR
(ii) April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
(b) Fill in the blanks (all parts are compulsory): (10 Marks)
(i) Mending wall by Robert Frost is a ___ monologue.
(ii) My fair Lady is a film based on G.B. Shaw’s ___ .
(iii) The Hairy Ape is a ___ play by Eugene O’ Neill.
(iv) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is set in ____ .
(v) Jimmy Porter Is a character In ____ .
(vi) Holy Sonnet 10 is another title for John Donne’s Poem ____ .
(vii) Sophocles’s Play Oedipus the King is set in the city of ____ .
(viii) Antigone was _____ .
(ix) The name of Willy Loman’s best friend and neighbor is ____ .
(x) Marilyn Monroe the famous American Actress was married to ____ .
Q. No. 2: To American dramatists like Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller the crux of the problem was psychological rather than social. Their primary focus was on what happens to the individual soul when It is lost somewhere between realms of reality and illusion. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 3: Discuss different themes of Walt Whitman’s poetry. Your analysis should be based on the reading you have made. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 4: Answer the following parts within 150 words: (10 + 10 = 20 Marks)
(a) Creon: I see you sulk in yielding and you’re dangerous when you are out of temper; natures like yours are justly heaviest for themselves to bear.
In the light of Creon’s above remark about Oedipus comment on Oedipus’s temper.
(b) What are your impressions of Oedipus as a person and ruler.
Q. No. 5: Explain the following within 150 words: (10 +10 = 20 Marks)
a) What are the characteristics of an ode?
b) What is negative capability in literature? Explain with reference to John Keats.
Q. No. 6: In Ode to Nightingale, the bird serves as the objective correlative for he emotional state of the Poet’s mind. What is it that the bird offers the poet which is denied to him in real life? Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q. No. 7: In Shakespeare’s Tempest, forgiveness and regeneration replace the darker vision of tragedy? Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.No. 8: In Death of Salesman modern man finds himself caught up in a situation where death seems to be the only solution to the protagonist to reach the expectations of society. Discuss the choice of Willy Loman of committing suicide in the light of the statement. (20 Marks)