BEGC-112 · December 2024 · English
IGNOU BEGC-112 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE : EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-112, December 2024 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 4
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
(BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2024
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 (around 150 words each) : 4×8=32
(i) “For, now that it was all over, t ruce signed, and the dead buried, he had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunder -claps of [ 2 ] BEGC–112 fear. He could not feel. As he opened the door of the room where the Italian girls sat making hats, he could see them; could hear them, but something f ailed him, he could not feel.”
(ii) “ but now I know That twenty centuries of story 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 places, 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.” [ 3 ] BEGC–112
(iv) “Was he free ? Was he happy ? The question is absurd. Had anything been wrong, We should certainly have heard.”
(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) Modernism in poetry
(ii) World War I and British Literature of the early twentieth century [ 4 ] BEGC–112
(iii) W. H. Auden as a ‘War Poet’
(iv) Sons and Lovers as a regional novel
(v) The major influences on the poetry of Stephen Spender.
Q3.Answer any two of the following questions in around 200 words each : 2×12=24
(i) Explain the symbolism in Yeats’ poem The Second Coming.
(ii) Write a short essay on psychoanalytic readings of Sons and Lovers.
(iii) Explain the significance of the title “I think continually of those who are truly great.”
(iv) Discuss the biblical background of the poem ‘Journey of the Magi’.
Q4.Write an essay ( in around 300 words) on any one of the following : 20
(i) Consider Mrs. Dalloway as a typical ‘stream of consciousness’ novel. [ 5 ] B EGC–112
(ii) Explain how Auden fuses two genres – satire and elegy —to create a poem (“The Unknown Citizen” ) that reflects many aspects of the modern condition.