1、(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 1Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summers lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too ho
2、t the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or natures changing course untrimmed;Question: 1. Whats 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 i
3、t. 3. How to appreciate the poem?Passage 2To 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 hea
4、rtache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to。 Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wishd. To die - to sleep。To sleep perchance to dream: ay, theres the rubQuestion: 1。 Whats the title of the drama? Who is the playwright? 2. What is soliloquy? 3。 What does “To be, or not to be” refer to
5、? How to understand it?Passage 3”Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yetA 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
6、.Question: 1. Whats 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 yi
7、eld, 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
8、. Whats 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
9、 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?
10、 Who is the author? 2。 The story is told in religious allegory, what is allegory? 3。 Whats the significance of Vanity Fair?Passage 6 A little black thing among the snowCrying 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 a
11、m 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. Whats 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 t
12、he true nature of religion?Passage 7 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high oer 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。 Whats the title of the poem? Who is the poet? 2. Wh
13、at 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 Autumns being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an
14、 enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilencestricken 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 oer the dr
15、eaming 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. Whats the title of the poem? Who is the poet? 2. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? 3。 W
16、hy 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, B
17、ut 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 fullthroated ease。Question: 1。 Whats the title of the poem? Who is the poet? 2. What is “Lethe? what does it allude to? 3. What doe
18、s the song of the nightingale symbolize? Whats the theme of this poem?简述题:1。 What is Neo-classicism? What are the major features of Neoclassicism?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” ?