課程名稱︰英詩選讀下
課程性質︰外文系選修
課程教師︰高天恩
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006.04.21
試題 :
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: (50%)
1. And has this simile a like perfection?
The mind is like a (1). Precisely. Save
That in the very happiesrt intellection
A graceful (2) may correct the (3).
2. My grandfather cut more (4) in a day
Than any other man on Toner's (5).
Once I carried him (6) in a bottle
Corked sloppily with (7).
3. The (8) of losing isn't hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no (9).
4. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing (10);
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the (11) that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with (12) the mossed cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
The above lines are quoted from (13) by (14).
5. Life the hound
(15)
Comes at a (16)
Either to rend me
Or to (17) me.
6. Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout Stuff you (18)!
But I know, all too well, that's the (19)
That dreams are made on;
The stanza quoted above is titled (20), written by Philip Larkin.
7. With what attentive courtesy he bent
Over his (21);
Not as a lordly (22) who could
Command both wire and (23),
But as a man with a loved woman might,
Inquiring with delight
What slight essential things she had to say
Before they started, he and she, to (24).
This poem written by Frances Cornfold is titled "The (25) Tunes Up"
8. I'd wake and hear the (26) splintering, breaking.
When the rooms ere warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the (27) angers of that house,
...
What did I know, what did I know
of love's (28) and lonely (29)?
The above lines are quoted from (30) by Robert Hayden.
9. I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a (31) of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary (32).
10.Were he not gone,
The (33) could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human (35).
The above lines are quoted form (36) by (37).
11.Black horses drive a (38) through the weeds,
And there, a field (39), startled, squealing bleeds,
His belly close to the ground. I see the blade,
Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and (40).
12.A (41) at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted (42),
And a (43) less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two (44) beating each to each.
13.Round the cape of a sudden came the (45),
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of (46) for him,
And the (47) of a world of men for me.
14.Thou still unravished (48) of quietness,
Thou (49) of silence and slow time,
Sylvan (50), who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
II. Essay questions: Discuss briefly any FOUR of the following topics:
(50%)
1. Discuss the theme and imagery of Seamus Heaney's "The Forge" (and/or
"Digging").
2. Discuss the theme, imagery, and tone of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish."
3. Discuss the theme and imagery of Richard Wilbur's "The Writer."
4. Compare Gerald Manley Hopkins' "Spring" with John Keats' "To Autumn."
5. Discuss Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" in terms of imagery and theme.
6. How does Robert Frost convey so vividly the experience of "apple-
picking?" Cite examples of effective images used in "After
Apple-Picking," and discuss the emotional response these images evoke.
7. Discuss any poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered by
the above questions) in any way you see fit.
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因為眼淚可以洗刷悲傷 所以我填滿整個地球
然後站在碩果僅存的Mt. Everest上 品嚐鹹鹹的海風
在淹沒之前 在幸福之後
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