課程名稱︰美國文學1865以後
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰李欣穎
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006/05/09
試題 :
I.Identification and explication:60%
Identify the author(full name) and the source(full title) of the following
passages and briefly answer the questions:
1. The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dark.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jabs.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
* Author:_________ Title:__________
* What kind of transformation is the poet talking about here and what is the
meaning of this transformation?
2. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--
* Author:________ Title:__________
* Please paraphrase the poem and explain how this poem pertains to the
composition of poetry.
3. "... Don't dey tear suckin' baby right off his mother's breast, and sell
him, and der little children as is crying and holding on by her clothes,
--don't dey pull'em off and sells em? Don;t dey tear wife and husband
apart?"...
"Pray for them that 'spitefully use you, the good book says,"says Tom.
"Pray for 'em!" said Aunt Chloe; "Lor,it's too tough! I can't pray for em."
"It's natur, Chole, and natur's strong,"said Tom,"but the Lord's grace is
stronger; besides, you oughter think what an awful state a poor crittur's
soul's in that'll do them ar things,--you oughter thank God that you an't
like him, Chloe. I'm sure I'd rather be sold, ten thousand times over,
than to have all that ar poor crittur's got to answer for."
* Author:_________ Title:____________
* What kinds of persons and events are the speakers discussing? What does
the passage tell us about Tom?
4. So he says:"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him
dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he says,
'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like
Mars Tom Sawyer? would he says dat? You bet he wouldn't! Well, den, is Jim
gwyne to say it? No, sah--I doan' budge a step out'n dis place, 'dout a
doctor; not if its forty years!"
I knowed he was white inside, and I rekoned he'd say what he did say
--so it was all right, now, and I told Tom I was agoing for a doctor.
* Author:__________ Title:_________
* What had just happedned to the speakers? What does the passage tell us
about their ideas of race and moral character?
II. Answer one of the following questions: 40%
1. One of Whitman's innnovative techniques is "poetic catalogue." Using
examples from the poems we have read, please explain what it is and how
it works.
2. The introduction to Dickinson praises her for "[bringing] dazzling
originality to the tritest topic." Using examples from the poems we have
read, discuss how she achieves this.
3. What stragedies does Stowe use in "The Mother's Struggle" to reinforce
the political message(s) of Uncle Tom's cabin?
4. Why do you think Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn into a dead
end toward the end of Chapter 16? How does he finally overcome his writer's
block?
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