課程名稱︰英國文學史 1900-
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰朱偉誠
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006/06/19
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Final Exam
part I. Choose carefully from the following five questions and answer only
those that can make up for 30%
1. Explain the title of W.B. Yeats's "Adam's Curse" as it is meant in the poem
as well as its connection to its theme of love. (5%)
2. Delineate the images of Maud Gonne as manifest in Yeats's "No Second Troy"
"A Prayer for My Daughter," and "Among School Children." (10%)
3. What glimpses on the nationalist politics in early twentieth-century
Ireland and Yeats's attitude toward it cn we get from his "September 1913,"
"To a Shade,"and " Easter 1916"? (15%)
4. Describe Yeats's philosophy of history as expressed in "The Second Coming"
and "Leda and the Swan." (10%)
5. What is Yeat's attitude toward his time as can be seen in his
"Sailing to Byzantium" and "Lapis Lazuli." (10%)
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Part II.
6. What are Virginia Woolf's points of imagining that William Shakespeare
had a sister? (10%)
7. Summarize the distinctive characteristics of modernist poetry by using
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J.Alred Prufrock" as illustrations.(10%)
8. Summarize the stories of at least 3 characters in Eliot's "The Waste Land"
that can exemplify the general spiritual condition after World War I. (20%)
9. Summarize the themes of only <one> group of the folloing W.H. Auden's
poems: (1) "Spain 1937" and "Their Lonely Betters;"
(2) "Mesee des Beaux Arts" and "In Praise of Limestone." (15%)
10. Describe the vision seen by the speakers in Dylan Thomas's
"Poem in October" and "Fern Hill." (10%)
11. Name one or two examples to demonstrate the language peculiarities of
Dylan Thomas's poetry. (5%)
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