BEGC-112 · December 2023 · English
IGNOU BEGC-112 December 2023 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE : EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-112, December 2023 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 4
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2023
BEGC-112 : BRITISH LITERATURE : EARLY
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : All questions are compulsory.
Q1.Explain any four of the following passages with reference to the context : 4×8=32
(i) “The War had taught him. It was sublime. He had gone through the whole show, friendship, European war, death, had won promotion, was still under thirty and was bound to survive. He was right there. The last shells missed him. He watched them explode with indifference. [ 2 ] BEGC–112 That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born ?”
(iii) “We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation; With an alien people clutching their gods, I should be glad of another death.”
(iv) “Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace : when there was war, he went.” [ 3 ] BEGC–112
(v) “The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts, the fire‟s centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”
Q2.Write short notes on any four of the following (in around 100 words each) : 4×6=24
(i) Characteristics of Modernism
(ii) Verse drama in the early twentieth century
(iii) The influence of Freud on the intellectual life of early twentieth century Britain
(iv) The theme of the poem “I think continually of those who are truly great.”
(v) W. B. Yeats and the Irish literary movement
Q3.Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each : 2×12=24
(i) Discuss the autobiographical elements in Sons and Lovers. [ 4 ] BEGC–112
(ii) Explain how Virginia Woolf depicts the character of septimus Warren Smith in Mrs. Dalloway.
(iii) Consider W. H. Auden‟s poem „The Unknown Citizen‟ as a satirical elegy.
(iv) „T. S. Eliot‟s poem „Journey of the Magi‟ is a poem with a Christian theme.‟ Discuss.
Q4.Write an essay (in around 300 words) on any one of the following : 20
(a) Explain the symbolism of Yeats‟ poem „The Second Coming‟ with reference to his cyclical theory of history.
(b) Discuss how Virginia Woolf employs the stream of conscious ness technique in the novel Mrs. Dalloway.