課程名稱︰英詩選讀（二）
課程性質︰文學與文化專題 系選修
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︰2010/4/23 第七、八節
考試時限：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information 55%
1. I cannot __(1)__ the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary __(2)__.
It __(3)__, and I let it fall and break.
These lines are quoted from __(4)__ by __(5)__.
The phrase "a pane of glass" in the 2nd line refers to __(6)__
2. Round the __(7)__ of a sudden came the sea,
And the __(8)__ looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of __(9)__ for me.
The title of this short poem is __(10)__.
It is a sequel to __(11)__. Both poems were written by __(12)__
3. The grey sea and the long __(13)__ land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little __(14)__ that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing __(15)__.
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
4. I lost my mother's __(16)__. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved __(17)__ went.
The __(18)__ of losing isn't hard to master.
5. Though __(19)__ men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no __(20)__ they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
6. Where had I heard this __(21)__ before
Change like this to a deeper __(22)__?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive __(23)__,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
These lines are quoted from __(24)__ by __(25)__.
7. Like __(26)__ with their ribbons
frayed and wavering,
a five-haired beard of wisdom
trailing from his aching __(27)__.
I stared and stared
and __(28)__ filled up the little rented __(29)__,
These lines are quoted from __(30)__ by __(31)__.
8. The woods around it have it - __(32)__ is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too __(33)__ to count;
The __(34)__ includes me unawares.
9. Something there is that doesn't love a __(35)__,
That wants it down." I could say "__(36)__" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an __(37)__ __(38)__ armed.
He moves in __(39)__ as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
10. Since then, keen __(40)__ that __(41)__ deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree,
And a __(42)__ edged with grayish leaves.
This stanza is quoted from __(43)__ by __(44)__.
11. Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest __(45)__ to hold.
Her early leaf's a __(46)__;
But only so an hour.
This lines are quoted from a poem titled __(47)__.
12. Two roads __(48)__ in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the __(49)__.
13. My grandfather could cut more __(50)__ in a day
Than any other man on Toner's __(51)__.
14. And has this __(52)__ a like perfection?
The mind is like a bat. Precisely. Save
That in the very happiest intellection
A graceful error may correct the __(53)__.
15. That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our __(54)__ as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the __(55)__.
II. Essay Questions: Briefly discuss any THREE of the following topics 45%
1. Discuss the theme, imagery, and tone of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish."
2. Discuss Seamus Heaney's "Digging" and "The Forge" in terms of theme and
imagery.
3. Compare and contrast Robert Frost's "Design" with Ralph Waldo Emerson's
"The Rhodora" in terms of theme and imagery.
4. 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 responses these images evoke.
5. 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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