課程名稱︰英詩選讀下
課程性質︰選修
課程教師︰高天恩
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期︰2010年6月23日
考試時限：110分鐘(延長至少10分鐘)
試題 :
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: 55%
1. I pause in the stairwell, hearing
From her shut door a commotion of _(1)_
_(2)_ a chain hauled over a gunwale.
Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great _(3)_, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky _(4)_.
These lines are quoted from _(5)_ by _(6)_.
2. Much _(7)_ is divinest sense--
To a _(8)_ Eye--
Much sense--the starkest madness--
'Tis the _(9)_
In this, as All, prevail--
_(10)_--and you are sane--
Demur--you're straightaway dangerous--
And handled with a Chain--
3. You beat time on my head
With a _(11)_ caked hard with dirt,
Then _(12)_ me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
4. Inebriate of _(13)_--am I--
And _(14)_ of Dew--
Reeling--thro endless summer days--
From inns of Molten Blue--
The word "Molten" in the last line quoted above means _(15)_.
5. In the _(16)_ displayed on satin she lay
With the undertaker's _(17)_ painted on,
A turned-up putty _(18)_,
Dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn't she look pretty? Everyone said.
_(19)_ at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
These lines are quoted from _(20)_ by Marge Piercy.
6. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping _(21)_,
Dropping from the _(22)_ of the morning to where the _(23)_ sings;
There midnight's all a _(24)_, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's _(25)_.
This stanza is quoted from _(26)_ by _(27)_.
7. What could have made her peaceful with a _(28)_
That _(29)_ made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a _(30)_ _(31)_, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most _(32)_?
These lines are quoted from _(33)_.
8. Turning and turning in the widening _(34)_
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall _(35)_; the _(36)_ cannot hold;
Mere _(37)_ is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The _(38)_ of _(39)_ is drowned;
These lines are quoted from _(40)_.
9. I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is _(41)_.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their _(42)_ above my head,
_(43)_ with a lighter tread.
This stanza is quoted from _(44)_.
10. How can those terrified vague fingers push
The _(45)_ glory from her loosening thights?
And how can body, laid in that white _(46)_,
But feel the strange _(47)_ beating where it lies?
These lines are quoted from _(48)_.
11. O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, _(49)_ in a gyre,
And be the _(50)_ of my soul.
12. Bodily _(51)_ is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
The two lines are quoted from Yeats's _(52)_.
13. One asks for mournful melodies;
Accomplished _(53)_ begin to play.
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are _(54)_.
The "ancient, glittering eyes" in this poem refer to the eyes of _(55)_.
II. Essay Questions: Briefly discuss FOUR of the following topics. Make sure
that at least TWO of the topics must be on Yeats's poems (chosen from #4,
#5, #6, #7): 50%
1. Discuss the theme and imagery of Richard Wilbur's "The Writer."
2. Compare and contrast Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" with Linda
Pastan's "To a Daughter Leaving Home" in terms of imagery as well as the
delineation of parent-child relationship.
3. Discuss the feminist concerns in Marg Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and
Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."
4. Discuss Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter" in terms of theme and imagery.
5. Discuss Yeats's "Among School Children" in terms of theme and imagery.
6. Discuss Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" in terms of theme and imagery.
7. Discuss Yeats's "Lapis Lazuli" in terms of theme and imagery.
8. Discuss any poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered by
the above questions) in any way you deem fit.
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