課程名稱︰英詩選讀上
課程性質︰文學與文化專題
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）︰98/11/13
考試時限（分鐘）：120
是否需發放獎勵金: 是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: (50%)
1. Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my ___1___:
Me and my cloak and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with ___2___!
I broke them up like meringues.
This stanza is quoted from ___3___ by Philip Larkin. The word "ripping" in
the forth line means ___4___. The word "them" in the last line refers to
___5___.
2. We are things of dry hours and the __6___ plan,
Grayed in, and gray."___7___" makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like "rent,""feeding a wife,""satisfying a man."
This lines are quoted from ___8___ by Gwendolyn ___9___.
3. True ease in writing comes from art, not ___10___,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no ___11___ gives offence,
This sound must seem an ___12___ to the sense.
The above lines are taken from a long poem (called An Essay on ___13___)by
___14___.
4. Nothing is so beautiful as ___15___---
When weeds, in ___16___, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ___17___, it strikes like lightings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that ___18___ is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their ___19___.
The above lines are quoted from a sonnet written by ___20___.
5. ___21___ too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack ___22___,
theb with ___23__ hands that ached
from labor in the ___24___ weather made
banked fires blaze.
The above lines are quoted from ___25___ by Robert Hayden.
6. In Just-
___26___ when the world is mud-
___27___ the little
lame ballonman
whistles far and wee
...
These lines are quoted from "in Just---" by ___28___
7. so much ___29___
upon
a red wheel
___30___
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
___31___.
This fammous poem was written by ___32___
8. At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs ovberhead
In a ___33___ evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged ___34___, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing ___35___.
This stanza is quoted from ___36___ by Thomas Hardy.
9. Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green ___37___, I saw him ___38___.
10. What happens to the dream ___39___?
Does it dry up
Like a ___40___ in the sun?
Or fester like a sore---
And then ___41___?
11. A poem should be palpable and ___42___
As a ___43___ fruit,
Dumb
As old ___44___ to the thumb
...
This lines are quoted from ___45___ by Archibald MacLeish.
12. Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout ___46___ your pension!
But I know, all too well, that's the ___47___
That dreams are made on;
13. Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realization of it rages out
In furnace-feat when we are caught without
People or ___48___. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the ___49___.
These lines are quoted from ___50___ by Philip Larkin.
II. Briefly discuss any FOUR of the following topics: 50%
1. Many poets have tried to provide a definition for poetry (or for a
poem). Can you recall some of these definitions?
2. Discuss Archibald MacLeish's technique in rendering his philosophy of
poetry in the poem "Ars Poetica."
3. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."
4. Discuss Keith Douglas's attitude toward war as is revealed in his
"Vergissmeinnicht."
5. How many characters are there in the poem "Whipping"? What is the
relationship between these characters?
6. Analyze Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" in terms of
theme, imagery, structure, and rhyme scheme.
7. Philip Larkin's "Toads" describes two toads. where are they located? How
are they described?
8. Discuss Philip Larkin's "Aubade" in terms of theme and imagery.
9. 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 amalyzed.
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