英国文学试题

1．{The Isles of Greece} QUESTIONS:

1. Who is the writer of these lines? Byron

2. It is taken from the writer's masterpiece entitled ___ \

3. Who is \ Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess , known for her passionate love lyrics.

4. Who is \

5. Whom does the \Homer.

6. What does the whole section \

The section \freedom. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee on the isle of Greece. In the song, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the Greek ancient people with the enslavement of the early 19th century Greeks under the Turkish rule, the poet calls on the Greeks to struggle for their national freedom and liberation.

7. This selection consists of two six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ___ Ababcc__________

What does the poem mainly write about?

This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts.

What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc

2．I wandered lonely as a cloud

1.What does the poem mainly write about?

This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. 2.What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc

3. What is the poet’s view on nature? And how is that view shown in this poem?

Wordsworth’s conception of nature is that nature has a lot to do with man, it can not only refresh one’s soul and fill one with happiness, but it can also be reduced into a beautiful memory which will comfort one’s heart when in solitude.

In the narrative poem, the poet successfully compared his loneliness with the happy daffodils. The daffodils, the symbol of the nature, bring great joy and relief to the speaker. The diction of this poem is, in general, simple, direct, and clear. The image of the daffodils conveys qualities of movement and radiance through carefully chosen words. At first sight, the flowers are seen as “fluttering and dancing”; then the poet compares the flowers to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”, and then to the “sparkling waves” of a nearby lake. The daffodils are described as “golden”, not yellow, because “golden” suggests more than a color; it connotes light. These words of movement and radiance create a picture of nature as vital, animated, and glowing. Words for joy (glee, sprightly, gay, jocund, bliss) are used in a crescendo that suggests the intensity of the speaker’s happiness.

3.when we two parted

《昔日依依别》虽是一首抒情诗，但是却有着很强的画面感，这首诗明显是由三个叙述画面组成的：

1. 往昔的分别场景 2. 今日人群之中的回忆 3. 多年后的重逢画面

三个叙述画面分别从不同层次与深度逐渐展露出了诗中人的复杂、痛苦的情感体验. “ in silence and tears”使得全诗前后照应，巧妙地将过去、现在和将来联系在了一起，强调了时空的永恒，痛苦的情伤的永恒性。

4．Ode to the west wind QUESTIONS:

2. The west wind in this poem is generally considered as a symbol. What does it symbolize? In Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and many other languages, the words for winds, breath, soul, and inspiration are all identical or related. Thus Shelley's west wind is a symbol of \of Autumn's being,\the spring. Around this central symbol, the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration—vegetational, human, and divine.

4. What kinds of stylistic devices are used in the poem? symbols, personification, metaphors and similes.

6. Each stanza contains four tercets and a closing __ A________. A. couplet B. parallelism C. octave

7. The rime scheme in each stanza is ___ aba bcb cdc ded ee_________. 名词解释：

1．Byronic heroes:This term is derived from Lord Byron or his works. The Byronic hero is a character-type found in his celebrated narrative poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. This kind of hero is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin.

2. Romanticism: reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading features of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.

3．Chartist Movement：From the thirties of the 19th century, the struggle between the workers and capitalists became the fundamental contradiction in English Social life.

4．Critical Realism：English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint。 5．Lake Poets：Lake Poets, term loosely applied to three English poets, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth (and sometimes Thomas De Quincey), who lived in the Lake District of England. The works of these poets had little relationship to one another, although each exemplified romantic principles in poetry.

6．Stream of Consciousness：The “Stream of Consciousness” is a psychological term indicating “the flux of conscious and subconscious thoughts and impressions moving in the mind at any

given time independently of the person’s will.” In late 19th century, the literary device of “interior monologue” was originated in France as an application of modern psychological knowledge to literary creation. 7．Modernism：Generally speaking, we call literature in 20th century Modernism as a summary to all kinds of literary genres. However, Modernism itself is a movement both wide and deep and extending into all the forms of literature and art.

8．Aestheticism：Aestheticism is a Victorian literary movement that begun in the late 19the century. Followers of the movement believed that art should not be mixed with social, political, or moral teaching. Walter Pater’s statement “the love of art for its own sake” is a good summary of aestheticism.

简答题：1“A Novel Without a Hero,” emphasizes the fact that the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.

Building his plot around the fate of Amelia Sedley and Rebecca (Becky) Sharp, Thackeray managed to show a picture of the life of the ruling classes of England. The novel remains a classical example of social satire up to the present day. In this novel, Thackeray describes the life of the ruling classes of England in the early decades of the 19th, and attacks the social relationship of the bourgeois world by satirizing he individuals in the different strata of the upper society. It was a world where money grubbing was the main thing in the minds of all members of the ruling classes, and they had no scruples whatever in employing all possible means to attain that end.

The character of Becky Sharp is drawn with admirable skill. The unprincipled adventuress is a gifted woman, with a keen sense of humor and deep understanding of people. Cringing to the rich and titled snobs, clever Rebecca at the same time perceives how shallow, vain and worthless they are. Nevertheless, she firsts and carries on illicit relations with all rich and powerful men, young and old, within her reach, for the sole purpose of living a comfortable life. Of course she has her vanity also of out-rivalling other women in beauty and in her power over men, and of gaining admittance into high society, but all such vanity is inseparably bound up with the greed for wealth

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