Brief – 2018
a) What kind of state does Thoreau dream of?
Ans. Thoreau dreams of a state which can afford to be just to all men and to treat the individual with respect and not interfere with his freedom.
b) In Thoreau’s opinion, what action is essentially revolutionary?
Ans. Action from principle, perception and performance of right changes things and relations, it is essentially revolutionary.
c) “There is one man of genius” – Who does Emerson say this about?
Ans. Emanuel Swedenborg.
d) What is the office of the schooler?
Ans. To cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them facts and appearances.
e) What does Virginia Woolf refer to by the phrase “that extraordinary literature”?
Ans. Elizabethan period of England.
f) What does the historical sense involve?
Ans. A perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but also of his presence.
g) When should ‘tradition’ be positively discouraged?
And. If it meant blindly following the ways of the immediately preceding generation for their success.
h) How is the mind of a poet like a catalyst?
Ans. As he helps in poetic creation but leaves no traces of his personality in his art.
i. ) What question does Virginia Woolf raise about the Elizabethan age?
Ans. “Why did women not write poetry in the Elizabethan age”?
j) What was Mr. Eliot’s early prose directed against according to F. R. Leavis?
And. According to Leavis, Mr. Eliot’s prose directed against the Romantic tradition.
k) What does F. R. Leavis call the Romantic tradition of criticism?
Ans. He calls the Romantic tradition of criticism an atmosphere of the unformulated and vague.
I) What is Thoreau’s opinion regarding voting?
Ans. According to Thoreau, voting is merely a sort of gaming.
Brief – 2017
a) What does Eliot mean by ‘tradition’?
Ans. According to Eliot, it involves a historical sense, a perception of the presentness of the past as well as the pastness of the present.
b) In what circumstance should men have the right to revolution?
Ans. When the government becomes tyrannical or indifferent, men should have the right to revolution.
c) What does Eliot mean by a continual extinction of personality?
Ans. Depersonalization.
d) Who according to Thoreau are the enemies of the state?
Ans. The men who choose to act according to their consciences are treated like enemies of the state.
e) What is the fable that the concept of One Man is derived from?
Ans. Frying pan into the fire by Laurentius Abstemius.
f) What does Virginia Woolf want to know from the historians?
Ans. Wolf wanted to know why women writers were so few and inferior.
g) What must the Scholar read?
Ans. The scholar must read history and exact science.
h) Women of what particular period do Virginia Wolf attack in ‘Shakespeare’s Sister?
Ans. Elizabethan age.
i. ) Who is the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
Ans. John Bunyan.
j) How were women treated by men in the essay ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’?
Ans. In reality, women were treated most ignominiously, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
k) What is the result of an undue respect for the law?
Ans. The creation of a festival of soldiers, colonels, captains etc. matching towards the Warfield.
I) What did romantic poets lay stress on, according to Leavis?
Ans. Inspiration and individual genius.
Brief – 2016
a) What is the office of the Scholar?
Ans. To cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them facts and appearances.
b) Who uses their conscience to serve the state?
Ans. Very few people such as heroes, patriots, martyrs and mid-reformers.
c) What is the name of Shakespeare’s imaginary sister?
And. Judith Shakespeare.
d. ) What is the function of a catalyst?
Ans. A catalyst can be recovered chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction it has been sped up or catalyzed.
e) What does the Marxist approach to literature appear to be?
Ans. The Marxist approach to literature appears to be unprofitable.
f) What is ‘The Pilgrim’s progress’?
Ans. The most widely read book in English and the greatest work of John Bunyan.
E) What should the poet be alert of?
Ans. He must be alert of the obvious fact that art never improves, but that the material of art is never quite of the same, and the mind of Europe and of his own country changes by way of development which abandons nothing en route and which does not superannuate any author.
h) What is the impersonal theory of poetry?
Ans. The personal feelings and emotions of a poet should be absent in composing poems.
I. ) How does Mr. Oscar evaluate women’s intellect?
Ans. His opinion about women was that the best of women was intellectually inferior to the worst man.
j) According to Thoreau, what action is essentially revolutionary?
Ans. Action from principle, perception and performance of right changes things and relations, it is essentially revolutionary.
k) What is Thoreau’s opinion regarding voting?
Ans. According to Thoreau, voting is merely a sort of gaming.
I) What is the natural propensity of men?
Ans. It means that they enjoy these activities in themselves.
Brief – 2015
a) What is a Scholar in the right state of society?
Ans. The Man Thinking.
b) What is the “Other me”?
Ans. The wide world around us is the other me.
c) How do the mass of men serve the state mainly?
Ans. As machines, not as men.
d) What kind of state does Thoreau dream of?
Ans. Thoreau dreams of a state which can afford to be just to all men and to treat the individual with respect and not to interfere with his freedom.
e) Who was Mr. Oscar Browsing?
Ans. He used to examine the students at Girton and Newham.
f) What is literature strewn with?
Ans. Those persons who were destroyed by adverse remarks made by others about them.
g) What does the historical sense involve?
Ans. A perception, not only of the pastness of the past but also of his presence.
h) What is tradition?
Ans. The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.
i. ) What does the progress of an artist mean?
Ans. A continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
j) How is the emotion of art according to Eliot?
Ans. Impersonal.
k) What did the romantic critical tradition lay stress on?
Ans. Inspiration and individual genius
I) What is neoclassicism?
Ans. The name is given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the “classical” art and culture of classical antiquity.
Brief – 2014
a) What was the occasion on which Emerson gave his speech “The American Scholar“?
Ans. On the occasion of the restart of the college year which usually began at Harvard college on 1 September.
b) What is the main job of an American Scholar?
Ans. To develop unflinching self-trust and a mind that will be a repository of wisdom for other people.
c) What is the Classification in “The American Scholar”?
Ans. Classification in pre-receiving that the objects of Nature are not chaotic and have a law which blends them together.
d) How does Thoreau regard voting?
Ans. According to Thoreau, voting is merely a sort of gaming.
e) How do the reformers serve the state?
Ans. Reformers at times disagree with the conventional ideals and divisions of the state. They want change for the battlement of mass people.
f) When is a monetary powerless?
Ans. While it conforms to the majority.
g) How can tradition be obtained?
Ans. By hard labour, meaning by serious study and research.
h) What is a miracle?
And. If any work of art is produced in spite of all the hindrances of life.
i. ) How is the mind of a poet like a catalyst?
Ans. The poet helps in poetic creation but leaves no traces of his personality in his art.
j) What are the “Other things” that Leavis say “were present in Literary history and criticism”?
Ans. The “Other things’ are influences, environments and the extra-literary conditions of literary production and we are not fully conscious of the influence of ideas and attitudes.
k) Who, according to the author, is Shakespeare’s sister?
Ans. Siobhan Fahey Marcella Detroit.
I) What is feminism?
Ans. The belief is that women should be allowed the same rights, power and privileges in society as men and be treated equally to men.
