OLLSCOIL NA hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
SECOND SITTING EXAMINATIONS, 2010/11
THIRD & FOURTH ARTS EXAMINATION
EN387 Specialist Studies: Twentieth Century Literature
Professor S. Matterson
Professor H. Phillips
Professor S. Ryder
Professor A. Frazier
Dr. V. Nolan
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
THIS EXAMINATION PAPER HAS TWO SECTIONS
YOU MUST ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS: ONE FROM EACH SECTION
USE A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH SECTION
Do not repeat substantially material already offered for assessment on this
course or elsewhere. Write each of your answers on a different text.
SECTION A: MOORE AND YEATS
1. Confessions of a Young Man has a style that can be described, and it also has many
different styles. Explain this paradox.
2. Moore exhibits various male conceptions of love and women in Confessions of a
Young Man. Do these include the attitude to women and love expressed in the early
love poetry of Yeats?
3. The Untilled Field is technically a part of the Irish Literary Revival. Are its
attitudes to Ireland those of a nationalist? Discuss at least two stories in your answer.
4. Debates continue about the degree to which Cathleen ni Houlihan is Yeats’s work
(Lady Gregory and others collaborated). In what ways does it differ from On Baile’s
Strand and Deirdre?
5. Yeats is the great political poet of 20th century English poetry. Illustrate the merits
of his public poetry by an examination of three poems written before 1917.
P.T.O.
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