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英美文学考前串讲（4）Chapter 3 The Romantic PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less_ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A.positiveB.negativeC.neutralD.indifferentAnswer: B (P160)2. It is _who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit.A.Jean Jacques RousseauB.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheC.Edmund BurkeD.Thomas PaineAnswer: A (P157) 3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _and Walter Scott.A.Washington IrvingB.Jane AustenC.Herman MelvilleD.Charles DickensAnswer: B (P165) 4. _defines the poet as man speaking to men, and poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.A.William BlakeB.William WordsworthC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.John KeatsAnswer: B (P161) 5. For the Romantics, _is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A.loveB.manC.natureD.deathAnswer: C (P162) 6. In the Romantic period, _is the most prosperous literary form.A.proseB.poetryC.fictionD.playAnswer: B (P161)7. The tone of literature in Song of Experience by William Blake is _.A.dolefulB.livelyC.plainD.utterAnswer: A (doleful: 悲哀的P168-169)8. _is regarded as a worship of nature.A.John KeatsB.William BlakeC.William WordsworthD.Jane AustenAnswer: C (P176)9. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.C.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.Answer: D (P179-182)10. Wordsworths short poems can be classified into two groups:poems about nature and poems about_.A.loveB.human lifeC.freedomD.social activitiesAnswer: B (P176) 11. Don Juan is Byrons masterpiece, a great _of the early 19th century.A.comedyB.tragedyC.comic epicD.novelAnswer: C (P194) 12. In his lyrics such as Ode to Liberty, Ode to Naples, Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_ and his hatredtoward tyranny.A.the middle classB.the poorC.freedomD.the proletariatAnswer: C (P207) 13. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear! The two lines are found in_.A.Young Goodman Brown by HawthorneB.Ode to the West Wind by ShellyC.Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanD.Ulysses by JoyceAnswer: B (P212) 14. In Shellys To a Skylark, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet_.A.both celestial rapture and human limitationB.both image creation and profound meaningC.both music and wordsD.both inspiration and skills of writingAnswer: A (P206) 15. The author of Ode on a Grecian Urn is _.A.WordsworthB.AustenC.ByronD.KeatsAnswer: D (217) 16. Jane Austens first novel is _.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.Emma D.Plan of a NovelAnswer: B (P222)17. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austens novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as First Impressions.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.Answer: C (P223-225)18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of_.A.simple character and poor understandingB.simple character and quick witC.intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understandingAnswer: A (P227) 19. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _.A.1660-1798B.1798-1832C.1483-1546D.1836-1901Answer: B (P157)20. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?A.Shellys Prometheus UnboundB.Keats LamiaC.Mary Shellys FrankensteinD.Jane Austens Pride and PrejudiceAnswer: C (P166) 21.The lines It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice are found in_.A.Samuel Taylor Coleridges Kubla KhanB.William Wordsworths Lines Written in Early SpringC.John Keatss Ode to AutumnD.Percy Bysshe Shellys Ode to the West Wind Answer: A (P190-191)22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats Ode on a Grecial Urn?A.I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!B.They are both gone up to the church to pray.C.Earth has not anything to show more fair.D.Beauty is truth, truth beauty.Answer: D (P221) II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. A little black thing among the snowCrying weep! weep! In notes of woe where are thy father & mother? Say? They are both gone up to the church to prey.(1)Identify the poem and poet.(2)Explain notes of woe.(3)What does the sentence mean they ate both gone up to the church to prey.Answer:(1)It is from The Chimney Sweeper (from songs of experience) by Blake.(P172)(2)notes of woe means the songs/notes of sadness.(3)It implies: religion is the instrument of their repression/ oppression, its nature is to help bring misery to the poor children.(P169)2. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them all,But all, except their sun, is set. (1)Identify the poem and its author;(2)What does it mean But all, except their sun, is set.(3)What does the passage imply?Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan) (P199)(2)The sentence means: The sun is still on the rise, but the rest things all set.(3)The passage implied: The author lamented over the fallen Greece: In the past, Greece nurtured/ cultivated great poets and heroes,who enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece had been enslaved,the past honorable history couldnt be found again. (P199)3. With plough and spade and hoe and loom Trace your grave and build your tombAnd weave your winding-sheet-till fairEngland be your Sepulcher(1)Explain sepulcher(2)What was the deep implication of the poem?Answer:(1)Sepulcher means grave. (P210211)(2)The poem ironically addressed to the workers who submit to capitalist exploitation. It warned them: If they gave up the struggle, they would be digging graves for themselves wish their own hands. (P211)4. Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:(1)Who is the poet? The name?(2)Explain the sentence.(3)What was the theme of the poem?Answer:(1)This is the ode on a Grecian Um, which was written by the poet-John Keats. (P219)(2)The sentence means: though time has passed, the urn ,the works of the art still remains, and it tells a pastoral/lyrical tale to us, and the description of the urn is much more beautiful than the words of any human. (P218)(3)The theme is: Human life is transient, but the art is immortal. (P218)5. Place me on Suniums marbles steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,May her our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan like, let me sing and die:A land of slaves shall neer be mine-Dash down you cup of Samian wine!(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)(2)Explain swan like, let me sing and die (P199)Interpret the passage and spot its implication.Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan) (P203)(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die, the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire to fight with the invaders till death, and appeal to the suppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom and liberation.6. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dance with the daffodils.(1) What is the bliss of the solitude?(2) Interpret the passage.(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?Answer:(1)The Daffodils the poem saw. (P180)(2)It is a bliss/happiness to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind when he is solitude/lonely.(3)The poem depicts/deals with the flowers that he came across along waterside, by which he expresses the quiet, sympathy, loving feeling to nature just like his words poetry is from emotion recollected in tranquility. 7. Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,And the angle told Tom, if hed be a good bye,Hed have God for his father, and never want joy.(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies?Answer:(1) The poem is take from The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence), which was written by William Blake.(p171)(2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy and innocent world, though the wretched child are exploited and orphaned, they had nice dream for life and the world, which implies religion make people obedient to exploitation, and from religion, they can get consolation and an illusory happiness.(p168)8. As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud.(1)Explain I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed (P208)(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? Whats that?(3)The poet was called the the heart of all hearts, he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.Answer:(1)The sentence call Shelleys desire that he couldnt best being fettered to/limited by the humdrum/too ordinary reality of everyday! (P208)(2)In the poem, the west wind has become the poet himself,he wants to be free, proud and controllable like the wild west wind,to destruct and construct with the strong power like the west wind. (P207208)(3)If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (P208)9. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede As doth eternity: cold pastoral!(1)How do you understand cold pastoral (2)What device is used in the poem?(3)Explain the implication of the poem.At the end of the poem, the poet gave a famous saying, and it is also the theme of the poem, what is that?Answer:(1)Cold pastoral means the lyrical scene on the Grecian urn lacks life and warmth. (P222)(2)Contrast. (P218)(3)The poet wanted to show the permanence of the art and the transience of human passion presenting his ambivalence/opposing feelings about time and nature of beauty.The saying is Beauty is truth, truth beauty (P218219)10. Where fore feed and Clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveDrain your sweat-nay, drink your blood?(1)Who wrote the poem? Whats its name?(2) Explain drones,(3) Interpret the passage.Answer:(1)The poem is A song: Men of England by Shelley. (P209)(2)Drones the male of the honey-bees that dont work ,referring to the parasitic class in human society.(drones and bees are the devices of metaphor) (P210)(3)The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but point out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author. (P207)11. Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!(1)What does the wild spirit refer to?(2)Why called it Destroyer and Preserver at the same time?(3)Identify the poet and the poem.Answer:(1)wild spirit refers to west wind/autumn wind. (P212)(2)Because west wind buried the dead year and year and prepared for a new spring, the poet call it Destroyer and preserver.(3)It is Ode to the west wind of Shelley. (terza rima)III. Questions and answers:1.Please list the subjects and the faculties of the Romanticism. Answer:(1) The subjects are: love, nature, nationalism, individualism, (2) The faculties they cherished are: imagination, spontaneity, inspiration. (P162)2.William Wordsworth was the first representative author of Rom,How do you know his idea and style?Answer:(1)His poems are most about Nature and Human Life;(2)Beyond the pleasure of the picturesque with the eye and the external aspects of nature, however, lies in deeper moral awareness, a sense of completeness in multiplicity. (it means poem not only deals with the beautiful world, but express moral)(3)Common life and the joy and sorrow of the common people and inner self are his subjects;(4)He is a poet in memory of the past and was called prophets of nature;(5)He deliberately writes in simple and ordinary speech ,refuses to decorate the truth of experience of pure and profound feeling;(6)He thought poet is a man speaking to men, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.(7)He always writes an elusive beauty of simplicity or a rural figure. (P176-179)3.What thoughts and event influenced the period of Romanticism? Answer:(1) Rousseau (a French philosopher) explored new ideas about nature, society and education, which provided guiding priding principles for the French Revolution and Romanticism;(2) The French Revolution and the Declaration of Rights of Man(written by Thomas Paine)aroused the great sympathy and enthusiasm in the English liberals and radicals,which became a great source for Romanticism.(3) England itself had experienced profound economic and social changes as industrialism,which were reflected in the works of literature. (P157-159)4.Byrons greatest contribution is his creation of the Byronic hero What kind of the hero he is? Give comment on him. Answer:(1) Don Juan is Byrons masterpiece, a great comic epic, in which Byron described a hero named Don Juan. He was a great lover and seducer of women. In the conventional sense,al positives like courage, gen