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ASSIGNMENT BRITISH LITERATURE: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
BEGC-112 Programme: BAEGH /2026-2027
Course Code: BEGC 112
Max. Marks:100 Answer all questions in this assignment
. SECTION A
I . Explain the following passages with reference to the context.
1. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
2.“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. “Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.”
4.“Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields,
See how these names are fêted by the waving grass
And by the streamers of white cloud
And whispers of wind in the listening sky.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.”
SECTION B
II.Write short notes on the following:
1. Characteristics of modernism.
2. Issues of gender in Sons and Lovers.
3. The character of Septimus Warren Smith in Mrs. Dalloway.
4. The poetry of Stephen Spender
III. Write short essays on the following:
1. On the basis of your reading of texts prescribed in your course, explain how early twentieth century British writing reflected the effects of World War 1 on the lives of the British people.
2. Explain the biblical and historical contexts of Yeats’s the poem ‘The Second Coming.’
SECTION C
IV. Explain how Virginia Woolf uses the stream of consciousness technique to delve into the inner lives of her characters in the novel Mrs. Dalloway
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