3. Answer any THREE of the following questions.
(i) There is depiction of Nature in "Whistling of Birds". Explain.
(ii) How does Yeats remember different relations especially that of grandfather in his essay "My Grandfather"?
(iii) What kind of hosts were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as mentioned in "Hosts and Guests"? Explain.
(iv) What is the dilemma of a bachelor as depicted in Herbert Gold's "The Bachelor's Dilemma"?
(v) What Lewis Thomas in his essay, "To Err is Human" says about the lower animals and computers? Explain.
4. Answer any THREE of the following questions.
(i) Explain the following lines by Elizabeth Sewell:
I will drain
Long draughts of quiet
As a purgation
(ii) "One Art" is the art of losing. How can we master this art? Explain.
(iii) Explain the fourth and fifth stages of life as depicted in "All the World's A Stage" by Shakespeare.
(iv) What kind of picture of death Emily Dickinson draws in her poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death".
(v) "Lights Out" by Edward Thomas dwells on the power of sleep. Explain.
5. Attempt any THREE of the following questions. ("The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway)
(i) The theme of victory and defeat is embedded in the story. Explain.
(ii) Explain the relationship of the old man and the boy.
(iii) The sea is presented as a living character in the novel. Discuss.
(iv) Hemingway's mysticism is that he feels one with the fish as part of the grand scheme of Nature.
(v) The fight the old man was fighting with the fish must be won. His life and honour depend upon it. Discuss.