課程名稱︰英詩選讀上
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（年月日）︰2007/11/16
考試時限（分鐘）： 120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金： 是
試題 :
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: (55%)
1. He clasps the (1) with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the (2) world, he stands.
This stanza is quoted from (3) by (4).
2. Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my (5):
Me and my (6) and fangs
Had (7) times in the dark.
The (8) I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
This stanza is quoted from (9) by Philip Larkin.
3. We are things of (10) hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. "(11)" makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like "rent", "feeding a wife," "(12) a man."
This stanza is quoted from (13) by Gwendolyn (14).
4. True ease in writing comes from art, not (15),
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no (16) gives offence,
The sound must seem an (17) to the sense.
The above lines are taken from a long poem (called An Essay on (18))
by (19).
5. Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the (20) cold,
Then with (21) hands that ached
From labor in the (22) weather made
(23) fires blaze...
The above lines are quoted from (24) by Robert Hayden.
6. Nothing is so beautiful as (25)---
When weeds, in (26), shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and (27)
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The (28), it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that (29) is all in a (30)
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their (31).
The above lines are quoted from a sonnet written by (32).
7. In Just-
(33) when the world is mud-
(34) the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
....
These lines are quoted from "in Just---" by (35)
8. so much (36)
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with (37)
water
beside the (38)
chickens.
This famous poem was written by (39).
9. At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted (40)
Of joy illimited;
An aged (41), frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his (42)
Upon the growing gloom.
This stanza is quoted from (43) by (44).
10. In all my (45) before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, (46).
11. What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a (47) in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then (48)?
12. A poem should be palpable and mute
As a (49) fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the (50),
....
These lines are quoted from (51) by Archibald MacLeish.
13. Can you remember? When we thought
the (52) taught how to (53)?
That is not the voice of a critic
Not a common (54)
It is someone young in anger
Hardly knowing what to ask
Who finds our lines our glosses
(55) in this world.
II. Short Essay Questions: Discuss any FOUR of the following topics (45%)
1. Many poets have tried to provide a definition for poetry (or for a poem).
Can you recall some of these definitions?
2. How many characters are there in the poem "Whipping"? What is the
relationship between these characters?
3. Analyze Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" in terms
of theme, imagery, structure, and rhyme scheme.
4. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est".
5. Discuss Keith Douglas's attitude toward war as is revealed in his
"Vergissmeinnicht".
6. Compare Philip Larkin's "Aubade" with John Donne's "Death, be not proud"
in terms of theme and imagery.
7. Discuss ANY poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered in
the foregoing short essay questions) in any way you like--as long as
you are able to demonstrate some critical insights as well as your
familiarity with the text(s) being analyzed.
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