EX/ENG PGH35 2025
MASTEROF ARTS EXAMINATION 2024
First Ycar First Semester
ENGLISH
Literature andthe Contemplative Life
Time: 2 Hours
Full Marks: 30
Answer any three questions. All questions carry equal markS.
spiritua!
sonnets represent the poet's acceptance of the inevitability of both
1. Hopkins's lerrible'
desolation and consolation". Elaborate.
Sufism. What
Song of the Reed' illustrates his paricular version of
Discuss how Rumi's
English renderings of theSong' that
you have studied?
differences do you find in the three individual's quest for
(onference of the Birds as an extended allegory of the
3. Discuss Attar's 7he
the realization of truth. Wheel o!
within the framework of the Three T'urnings of the
Locate and annotate the
Heart Sutra
4.
Dhamma. Indigenous formns
relationship between the land. environment and
words the
5. Explain in yourown studied.
and elder(s) that you have
of contemplation. with reference lo the poet(s) comparmentalized:
worldly and contenmplative life need not be
Gibran's The Prophershows how
6
Discuss.
can offer ample material for contemplation."
the mun dane world reference
Martha of Bethany in Lazarus and His Beloved. with
characters of Mary and
7. Analyze the read.
Christian thinkers that you have
1otheir depiction by early metaphors and
state of 'cternal Buddhahood to Naropa? What
8 How does Tilopa deseribe the
experienced?
use to explain the Mahamudra that cannot be explained but
similes does he
demands of the inner life of the spirit with a
life of
9
Howfar is St. Augustine able to reconcile the
active charity? Discuss.
and the perlormalive in contemplative lite,
0 Write an essay on the signilicance of perlormance
during the course.
based on your oWn participatory evperiences
Ex/ENG/PG/H35/2024
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
EXAMINATION 2024
M.A, ENGLISH
FIRST YEAR FIRST SEMESTER
LITERATURE AND CONTEMPLATIVE
LIFE
Full marks: 30
Time: 2 hours
Attempt any three questions. Allquestions carry equal marks.
"Rulestor
A n e the "terrible sonnets" of Hopkins
in the light of the fourteen Ignatian
Discernment.'
learning and leisure in De Vita Solitaria.
< Crhticaily analyze Petrarch's conflation of contemplation - as
3. "Julian of Norwich's Revelations demonstrates the double meaning of
both thought and vision." Discuss.
the Christian tradition from
4. Briefly trace the historyof ideas about contemplative life in
Clement of Alexandria to Pope Gregory the Great.
existence." Discuss the
5. "The Prophet by Gibran is about bringing mindfulness into everyday
narrative structure of the text in the light of this statement.
6 Withreference to the Sufiapproach to the Islamic tradition, comment on the significance of
"assimilating the Quran into one's very being" on the basis of the model established by the
Prophet.
7.
Writean essay [Link] moral praxis of the dervish, based on the portions of Saadi Shirazi's
Gulistan that youhave read in translation.
eCompare the ways in which Rumi's Song of the Reed and Attar's Conference of Birds treat
the idea of a "return to Source, "
ecs the 'Song of Tilopa to Naropa' and the sections of the 'Song of the Avadhut' that you
9.
have read as nondual anti-contemplative texts.