課程名稱︰英詩選讀
課程性質︰外文系文化與文學專題 or 選修
課程教師︰高天恩
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2004.11.19
試題 :
I. Fill each of the folloing blanks with correct information: 50%
1. ____ too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold
then with cracked ____ that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
blanked fires ____
...
What did I know, what did I know
Of love's ____ and lonely ____ ?
2. The ____ of these faces in the crowd
____ on a wet black ____.
3. "The curse of ____ from me shall ye bare,
Such ____ you gave to me, O"
4. Dim moon-eyed ____ near
____ at the gilded gear.
And query: "What does this ____ down here?"
5. When ____ hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his ____ ,
And Tom bears ____ into the hall,
And ____ comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipped and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the ____ ____ ,
"Tu-whit, tu-who!"
A ____ note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
These lines are quoted from a song from Love's Labor's Lost by ____
6. She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
Boy till the ____ breaks
In her hand. His tears are rainy weather
To woundlike _____ .
7. How many times these low ____ staggered－
Only the soldered ____ can tell－
Try－can you stir the awlful ____ －
Try－can you lift the hasps of steel!
8. In me thou see'st the ____ of such fire,
That on the ____ of his youth doth lie
As the ____ whereon it must expire,
9. We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in and gray. ____ makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a ____ ."
...
We wonder. But not well! Not for a minute!
Since Number Five is out of the ____ now,
We think of lukewarm ____ , hope to get in it.
10. Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a ____ sea, I saw him ____ .
11. A ____ should be equal to:
Not true.
For all the history of ____
An empty ____ and a ____ leaf.
12. Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my ____ :
Me and my cloak and ____
Had ____ times in the park.
The ____ I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
13. Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the ____ ,
And ____ does more than ____ can
To ____ God's way to man.
II. Discuss briefly any FIVE of the following topics: 50%
1. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."
2. Discuss Archibald MacLeish's technique in rendering his philosophy of
poetry in the poem "Ars Poetica."
3. How does Philip Larkin handle the theme of belief and disbelief in his
"Church Going"?
4. What are the characteristics of a ballad? Could you critically discuss
any ballad we have studied in class?
5. Analyze, in detail, any sonnet(s) by Shakespeare.
6. Discuss Thomas Hardy's outlook on life as is revealed in his poems.
(such as "Hap," "The Subalterns," "The Man He Killed," "The Convergence
of the Twain.")
7. Discuss ANY one poem or two or even three poems we have studied in class
(but not covered by the above questions) in any way you like－as long as
your discussion demonstrates your familiarity with the text(s) and shows
your critical insights into each individual poem and / or the special
qualities all these poems share.
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