課程名稱︰英詩選讀
課程性質︰外文系 文學與文化專題
課程教師︰高天恩
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰2014.11.14
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
English Poetry
Mid-Term Exam November 14, 2014
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: (65%)
1. Bent double, __(1)__ old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like __(2)__, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our __(3)__,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
2. Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green __(4)__, I saw him __(5)__.
3. A poem should be palpable and mute
As globed __(6)__,
Dumb
As old __(7)__ to the thumb,
...
4. Sundays too my __(8)__ got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack __(9)__,
Then with __(10)__ hands that ached
From labor in the weekday weather made
Banked fires __(11)__. No one ever __(12)__ him.
The above lines are quoted from __(13)__ by Robert __(14)__.
5. That is not the voice of a __(15)__
nor a common reader
it is someone young in anger
hardly knowing what to ask
who finds our lines our __(16)__
__(17)__ in this world.
6. True ease in writing comes from art, not __(18)__,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no __(19)__ gives offence,
The __(20)__ must seem an echo to the __(21)__.
7. Look. Here in the __(22)__ spoil
The dishonored __(23)__ of his girl
Who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht
In a copybook gothic __(24)__.
The German title of this poem, Vergissmeinnicht means __(25)__
8. The __(26)__ sea and the long black land;
And the yallow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little __(27)__ that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As __(28)__ gain the cove with pushing prow,
...
9. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a __(29)__ appears;
A __(30)__ at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted __(31)__,
And a __(32)__ less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
The above poem is titled __(33)__, written by __(34)__.
10. Round the cape of a sudden came the __(35)__,
And the __(36)__ looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of __(37)__ for me.
In the poem quoted above, the word "him" in the 3rd line refers to __(38)__.
And the title of this poem is __(39)__.
11. But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore says not I that I am __(40)__?
Oh, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in __(41)__ loves not to have years told:
Therefore I __(42)__ with her and she with me,
And in our faults by __(43)__ we flattered be.
In the lines quoted above, the word "wherefore" means __(44)__.
The word "unjust means" __(45)__. The poem is a sonnet written by __(46)__.
12. In Just-
__(47)__ when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame __(48)__
whistles far and wee
...
This poem, "in Just-" was written by __(49)__.
13. When I have fears that I may __(50)__ to be
Before my __(51)__ has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high piled __(52)__, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened __(53)__;
14. __(54)__ are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. "__(55)__" makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a __(56)__."
15. What happens to a dream __(57)__?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the __(58)__?
Or fester like a __(59)__ --
And then run?
16. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And vaster,
Some realms I owned, two rivers, a __(60)__.
I __(61)__ them, but it wasn't a __(62)__.
17. Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should __(63)__ and __(64)__ at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the __(65)__.
II. Discuss any FOUR of the folloing topics: (50%)
1. Disuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."
(Or: Compare and contrast Owen's "Dulce et Decorum" with Keith
Douglas's "Vergissmeinnicht" in terms of theme and imagery)
2. Discuss the theme and imagery of John Keat's sonnet, "When I have fears
that I may cease to be."
3. Discuss the relationship between the man and the woman in Shakespeare's
"When my love swears that she is made of truth."
4. Discuss Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in terms
of theme and form (as a villanelle).
5. Discuss the theme and imagery of A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees."
6. Discuss Gwendolyn Brooks's "Kitchenette Building" in terms of theme and
imagery.
7. Discuss ANY poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered in
these short essay questions) in any way you see fit -- as long as your
discussion demonstrate your critical insights as well as your
familarity with the text being analyzed.
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