英国文学.doc

(完整版)英国文学
1. 连线题 （10 points)
2. 判断题 （10 points）
3. 单项选择题 (30 points)
4. 材料分析题 (32 points）
5. 简述题 （18 points）

材料分析题:
Passage 1
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May，
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines，
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed；
…
Question： 1. What’s the title of the poem？ Who is the poet？
2。 What figures of speech are used in the poem? Use examples from the poem to show it.
3. How to appreciate the poem?

Passage 2
To be, or not to be - that is the question：
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles，
And by opposing end them。 To die — to sleep –
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to。 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die - to sleep。
To sleep — perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
…
Question: 1。 What's the title of the drama？ Who is the playwright?
2. What is soliloquy?
3。 What does “To be， or not to be” refer to? How to understand it？

Passage 3
…”
Our two souls therefore, which are one，
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion，
Like gold to airy thinness beat，

If they be two， they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two，
Thy soul the fixt foot， makes no show
To move, but doth， if th’ other do.
…
Question: 1. What’s the title of the poem？ Who is the poet?
2. What is “metaphysical conceit”? What is the classic “metaphysical conceit” used here？
3。 What is the theme of this poem?

Passage 4
“… What though the field be lost？
All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And courage never to submit or yield，
And courage never to submit or yield，
And what is else not to be overcome?
That glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
Who, from the terror of this arm so late
Doubted his empire， -- that were low indeed;
…
Question： 1. What's the title of the poem? Who is the poet？
2. What is the theme of the poem?
3。 What are the images of the God， Adam ＆ Eve， and Satan？

Passage 5
Then I say in my dream， that when they were got out of the wilderness， they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity； and at the town there is a fair kept called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long, it beareth the name of Vanity Fair， because the town where tis kept is lighter than vanity; and also, because all that is there sold， or that cometh thither， is vanity。 …
Question: 1。 From which book is the passage taken? Who is the author?
2。 The story is told in religious allegory, what is allegory?
3。 What's the significance of Vanity Fair?

Passage 6
A little black thing among the snow
Crying ‘weep！' ‘ Weep！' in notes of woe!
‘Where are thy father and mother， say?’--
‘They are both gone up to the Church to pray。’
…
‘And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury，
And are gone to praise God and His Priest and King,
Who make up a Heaven of our misery。'
Question： 1. What’s the title of the poem？ From which collection is it taken？ Who is the poet？
2。 What kind of world does this poem reveal? What is the true nature of religion？

Passage 7
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills，
When all at once I saw a crowd，
A host, of golden daffodils；
Beside the lake， beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze。
…
Question： 1。 What’s the title of the poem？ Who is the poet？
2. What does the image of ‘cloud’ suggest to you？ What does the ‘golden daffodils’ represent？
3. What has the poet meditated from what he has described? What is the theme？

Passage 8
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being，
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven， like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing，

Yellow, and black， and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence—stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave， until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air）
With living hues and odours plain and hill：

Wild Spirit， which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear！
Question： 1. What’s the title of the poem？ Who is the poet?
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem？
3。 Why is ‘West Wind’ called the “Destroyer and Preserver”? What does it represent?

Passage 9
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense， as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk；
‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot，
But being too happy in thine happiness，—-
That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green， and shadows numberless
Singest of summer in full—throated ease。
Question： 1。 What’s the title of the poem？ Who is the poet?
2. What is “Lethe"？ what does it allude to？
3. What does the song of the nightingale symbolize? What’s the theme of this poem？

简述题:
1。 What is Neo-classicism? What are the major features of Neo—classicism？
2. What is Romanticism？ What are the major features of Romanticism？
3。 Read and compare “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, then make a comment on them。
4。 What is Metaphysical Poetry? What are the characteristics？ What are the characteristics in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” ?