CSS past paper

CSS English Literature Past Paper 2025

CSS English Literature 2025 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.

Marks: 100
Time: 3 hours
Questions: 7

Years

How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Questions

Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.

Q. 2
The Structuralist and Poststructuralist theories have invaded the core assumptions of Humanism regarding human subjectivity, language, nature and culture. Elaborate by building up an argument with reference to major debates in the field.
(20)
Q. 3
T. S. Eliot’s poetry can be read like a mystery religion in its own right by reinforcing the cardinal principles of Christian morality blended with myths and allusions all over the world. Elaborate with reference to pertinent textual instances from Eliot’s poems.
(20)
Q. 4
D. H. Lawrence represents the complex shades of human relationship, both intimate and familial, by showing his characters’ vulnerability in maintaining a balance between desire and duty, sensuality and spirituality and impersonalization and engagement.
(20)
Q. 5
After reading O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’, one gets the feeling that as a typical Irish family, religious blasphemy, albeit in its different manifestation, runs in all four Tyrones. Discuss with special reference to relevant textual sites.
(20)
Q. 6
Emerson's transcendentalism shares some chief features with the esoteric voices of East, including Muhammad Iqbal and Maulana Rumi, highlighting a cross-cultural resonance between Western and Eastern spiritual philosophies. Comment.
(20)
Q. 7
Reading Wordsworth’s poetry one hears the “still sad music of humanity” that Romanticism celebrates as a core value of literature. Elaborate in the context of relevant poetic instances from the poet.
(20)
Q. 8
What is the significance of the title of Somerset Mugham’s ‘The Lotus Eater’ in relation to human sufferings and fragility as intrinsic to existence?
(20)

Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.