課程名稱︰英詩選讀
課程性質︰選修(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）︰2012/04/20
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
A. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: 50%
1. Nothing is so beautiful as __(1)__
When weeds, in __(2)__, shoot long and lovely and __(3)__;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and __(4)__
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The __(5)__, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
2. A poem should be __(6)__ and mute
As a __(7)__ fruit,
Dumb
__(8)__ old medallions to the __(9)__
__(10)__ as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the __(11)__ has grown--
...
A poem should not __(12)__
But be.
The above lines are quoted from Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica."
This Latin title means "The __(13)__ of __(14)__" in English.
3. I work all day, and get half __(15)__ at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I __(16)__.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
__(17)__ __(18)__, a whole day nearer now,
4. True __(19)__ in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no __(21)__ gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
5. But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floun'ring like a man in fire or lime,--
Dim throug the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green __(22)__, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at __(23)__, guttering, choking, __(24)__
6. Later, with inch-thich specs,
Evil was just my __(25)__;
Me and my __(26)__ and fangs
Had __(27)__ times in the dark.
These lines are quoted from __(28)__ by __(29)__.
7. I leant upon a coppice __(30)__
When __(31)__ was specter-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of __(32)__
These lines are quoted from __(33)__ by __(34)__.
8. __(35)__ too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked __(36)__ that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires __(37)__. No one ever __(38)__ him.
9. She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
Boy till the stick breaks
In her hands. His __(39)__ are rainy weather
To woundlike __(40)__.
10. so much __(41)__
upon
a red wheel
barrow
__(42)__ with rain
water
beside the white
__(43)__.
11.
But thy eternal __(44)__ shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall __(45)__ brag thou wand'rest in his shade
When in __(46)__ lines to time thou grow'st.
12.
Loveliest of trees, the __(47)__ now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing __(48)__ for Eastertide.
13.
That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all out __(49)__ as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgment-day.
This poem, titled __(50)__, was written by Thomas Hardy.
B. Short Essay Questions: Choose any "Four" out of the following topics:50%
1. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
(or of Keith Douglas's "Vergissmeinnicht").
2. Compare and contrast Archibald MacLeish's attitude toward poetry with that
of Adrienne Rich as is demonstrated in "Ars Poetica" and "Poetry: I."
3. Discuss the theme, imagery, and form of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring."
4. Discuss the theme, imagery of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach."
5. Discuss the theme, imagery of Philip Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."
6. Discuss the speaker's attitude toward death in Philip Larkin's "Aubade."
Summarize, to the best of your ability, the speaker's train of thought
throughout his monologue.
7. Discuss the theme, imagery of A.E.Housman's "Terence, this is stupid stuff."
8. Discuss ANY poem (or poems) we have studied in class (but not covered in
the short essay questions) in any way you like--as long as your discussion
demonstrates your critical insight as well as your familiarity with the
text(s).
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