課程名稱︰ 英國文學1800-1900
課程性質︰ 外文系六選五必修
課程教師︰ 朱偉誠
開課系所︰ 外文系
考試時間︰ 1/16 1020-1230
試題 :
Answer the following questions with short essays whose lengths are
proportionate to their grade allotments.
1. What is the significance of the Gothic tradition in Romantic literature?
Answer this question first and then delineate this tradition by illustrating
it with at least 3 Romantic texts discussed in class (be sure to include
brief summaries of those texts). (20%)
2. Explain the following two passages from Coleridge: (10%)
(1) How oft, at school, with most believing mind, / Presageful, have
I gazed uponthe bars, / To watch that fluttering "strangers"! and as oft/
With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt/ Of my sweet birthplace, and the
old church tower. ("Frost at Midnight")
(2) It were a vain endeavour,/ Though I should gaze forever/ On that
green light that lingers in the west:/ I may not hope from outward forms
to win/ The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ("Dejection:
An Ode")
3. Answer "one" of the following two questions: (5%)
(1) What is Coleridge's distinction between "fancy" and "imagination"?
OR
(2) How does Shelly defend poetry?
4. First define the "satanic hero" as adored and critiqued by the Romantics.
And then illustrate it with a detailed description of its various
manifestations, especially the "Byronic hero" and (briefly) the Romantic
versions of Prometheus. (20%)
5. How is Byron's Manfred different from Faust? (5%)
6. In what sense can it be said that the narrator is the true hero in Byron's
"Don Juan"? Provide one example for illustration. (5%)
7. Explain Shelley's neoplatonism as expressed in "Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty" and "To a Sly-Lark." (10%)
8. Explain the symbolism of the West Wind in Shelley's ode to it. (5%)
9. Explain why "death" is constantly referred to in Keats's "Ode to a
Nightingale." (5%)
10. Describe what the relief looks like in Keat's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
and explain its significance for the poem's speaker. (10%)
11. Answer "one" of the following two questions: (5%)
(1) Summarize the theme of Keats's "Ode to Psyche."
OR
(2) Explain this passage from Keats's "Ode on Melancholy": "Ay, in the
very temple of Delight/ Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,/ Though
seen of none save him whose strenuous/ Can burst Joy's grape against his
palate fine."
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