BEGC-112 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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ASSIGNMENT
BRITISH LITERATURE: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
BEGC-112

Programme: BAEGH /2025/2026
Course Code: BEGC 112

Answer all questions in this assignment.

Section A

I Explain the following passages with reference to the context. 10×4=40

1. ““What are you saying Septimus,” Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was talking to himself. She sent Agnes running for Dr. Holmes. Her husband, she said, was mad. He scarcely knew her. “You brute! You brute!” cried Septimus, seeing human nature, that is Dr. Holmes enter the room.”
2. “The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
3. “Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley, Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation; With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness, And three trees on the low sky, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.”
4. “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation. And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.”

Section B

1. Write short notes on the following:
2. Characteristics of modernist poetry
3. Psychoanalytic readings of Sons and Lovers.
4. The experimental plot of Mrs. Dalloway.
5. The theme of the poem ‘The Journey of the Magi’

. III. Write short essays on the following:

1. Explain the significance of the title of the poem ‘I think continually of those who are truly great.’
2. Discuss the themes of class and social mobility with reference to Sons and Lovers.

Section C

1. Discuss the symbolism in the poem ‘The Second Coming’, with reference to Yeats’s cyclical theory of history.