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）︰2008/1/18
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 (45%)
1. Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I (1) as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man's sweetheart,
Never ask me (2).
This stanza is quoted from (3) by (4).
2. The falling (5) inaugurates
The reign of her confusion;
The pounding (6) reverberates
The dirge of her illusion;
And home, where passion lived and died,
Becomes a place where she can hide
While all the (7) and harbor side
Vibrate with her seclusion.
This stanza is quoted from (8) by (9). The title of this poem means (10).
3. Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and (11) in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to (12)
The holy (13) of ancient sacrifice.
4. A hundred people call, though not one friend,
To parry a hundred doubts with nimble (14).
Her meanings lost in manners, she will walk
Alone in (15) (16) to the end.
This stanza is quoted from (17) by Ellen Kay.
5. I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has (18) a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible (19).
This passage is quoted from (20) by (21).
6. Ah, love, let us be (22)
To one another! For the (23), which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor (24), nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a (25) plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where (26) armies clash by (27).
7. Meanwhile we do no harm; for they
That with a (28) have striven,
Not hearing much of what we say,
Take what the (29) has given;
Though like (30) breaking it may be,
Or like a changed familiar tree,
Or like a stairway to the (31)
Where down the (32) are driven.
8. A (33) house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognized, and robed as destinies.
And that much never can be (34),
Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow (35) in,
If only that so many (36) lie round.
This stanza is quoted from (37) by (38).
9. But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am (39)?
Oh, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And (40) in love loves not to have years told.
10. And (41) does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
....
Look into the pewter (42)
To see the (43) as the world's not.
These lines are quoted from (44) by (45).
II. Short Essay Questions: Choose any FOUR out of the following topics (55%)
1. Compare "Dover Beach" with "Church Going" in terms of the theme of
belief/disbelief.
2. How does the speaker in "Pathedy of Manners" narrate a story with both
comic and pathetic implications? For what might the central character
be blamed? What arouses our pity for her?
3. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wallace Steven's 'Sunday Morning".
4. Discuss the theme, imagery, and structure of Shakespeare's "That Time of
Year".
5. Discuss the theme and imagery of any poem by Keats we have studied
in this semester.
6. Discuss ANY poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered in the
short essay questions listed above) in any way you like--as long as
your discussion demonstrates your critical insights as well as your
familiarity with the text(s).
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