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1. Critically comment in about 150 words each on the following passages : 10x5=50
(a) Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of complexity, Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. (Yeats) 10
(b) All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death ? (Eliot) 10
(c) Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot Where bored officials lounged (one cracked a joke) And sentries sweated for the day was hot: (Auden) 10
(d) Their beauty has thickened. Something is pushing them To the side of their own lives. (Larkin) 10
(e) The new poets still quoted the old poets, but no one spoke in verse of the pregnant woman drowned, with perhaps twins in her, kicking at blank walls even before birth. (Ramanujan) 10
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