課程名稱︰文學作品讀法 下
課程性質︰必
課程教師︰李紀舍
開課學院：文
開課系所︰外文
考試時限（分鐘）：120分
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試題 :
I Identify the authors of the following passages. Please give the full name.
(10 points)
1.
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
The author is _____________________________
2.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
The author is _____________________________
3.
This is the place.
And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black,
the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently about the wreck we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he.
The author is ______________________________
4.
Where'er you find the cooling western breeze',
In the next line, it whispers through the trees
'If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep',
The reader's threatened, not in vain, with sleep'.
The author is _______________________________
5.
Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
The author is _______________________________
II. Term definitions: Please provide a brief explanation of the following
terms and an example for each. Choose 5 out of 6. (20 points)
1. syntax
2. diction
3. English sonnet
4. tenor
5. terza rima
6. connotation
III. Name the meter. (16 points)
1. This is the forest primeval. The mumuring pines and the hemlocks.
2. There are many who say that a dog has its day.
3. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
4. The whiskey on your breath/Could make a small boy dizzy.
IV. Scansion. Choose one out of the two.
1.
WHY so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?
2.
Once more, hail and farewell; farewell, thou young,
But ah too short, Marcellus of our tongue;
Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound;
But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around.
V. Poetic forms (24 points)
1.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Identify the poetic form: ____________________________________
Describe the characteristics of such a poetic form: __________
2.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
“O, here’s the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you?”
Identify the poetic form: ____________________________________
Describe the characteristics of such a poetic form: __________
3.
The power of music all our hearts allow,
And what Timotheus was is Dryden now.
Identify the poetic form: ____________________________________
Describe the characteristics of such a poetic form: __________
4.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity, -let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
Identify the poetic form: ____________________________________
Describe the characteristics of such a poetic form: __________
VI. Meanings (50 points)
A.
Dawn comes and you cook
up the thick sin 'tween
impotence and death, fuel
the tenor sax cannibal
heart, genitals, and sweat
that makes you clean—
a love supreme, a love supreme—
1. The word 'sin' is a metaphor - what is the vehicle of this metaphor?
2. What is the tenor of this metaphor?
3. What is the vehicle of the plrase 'cannibal heart,'?
What is its tenor?
4. The allusions of 'impotence and death,'?
5. Explain the metaphor of 'cannibal heart, genitals, and sweat.'
B.
Before you leapt in your new dress
And touched the end of something I began,
Above the couples struggling on the floor,
New men and women clutching at each other
And prancing foolishly as bears: hold on
To that ring I made for you, Jane--
My feet are nailed to the ground
By dust I swallowed thirty years ago--
While I examine my hands.
1. Explain the metaphor of 'bears.'
2. Identify the meanings of the leap.
3. Describe the syntactical features of the passage.
C.
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
1. The tenor and vehicle of 'fur' are..?
2. The tenor and vehicle of 'belly' are..?
3. The sound device of 'black flack'..?
D.
Once, in the cellar, I found two wrapped in newspaper,
forgotten and not yet ripe.
I took them and set both on my bedroom windowsill,
where each morning a cardinal
sang, The sun, the sun.
Finally understanding
he was going blind,
my father sat up all one night
waiting for a song, a ghost.
I gave him the persimmons,
swelled, heavy as sadness,
and sweet as love.
1. The symbolic meaning of 'persimmons,'?
2. The meanings of the 'ghost,"?
3. The significance of the gift of persimmons?
E.
This is the terminal, the break.
Beyond this point, on lines of air,
You take the way that you must take;
And I remain in light and stare—
In light, and nothing else, awake.
1. Describe the syntactical characteristics of the passage.
2. Describe the multiple meanings of the word 'terminal.'
3. How is the father portrayed after his daughter leaves?
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