課程名稱︰田園詩與田園成規
課程性質︰系內選修
課程教師︰陳玲華
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰2009.11.09
考試時限（分鐘）：110分鐘
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試題 :
I. Identify the speaker of each passage quoted from The Idylls and The Eclogues
by citing a name from the list: Daphnis, Thyrsis, Cypris, Hermes, Priapus,
Goatherd, Polyphemus, Theocritus, Virgil, Gallus, Pan, Apollo. (21%)
1. I must learn to swim at once; but perhaps if I wait
Some kindly stranger will come in a ship to teach me.
2. Still you will sing
All this, here in your hills, Arcadians, masters
Alone of song. What soft rest for my bones
If your pipes sometime will rehearse my love.
3. You boasted you were a match for Love in wrestling;
You lie there overthrown for your offence.
4. Come, master, and take this pipe of mine, sweet-smelling,
Fastered with wax, the lip-piece delicately bound.
Love drags me into the darkness where no songs sound.
5. I have learnt that there can be no remedy for love,
No special herb or ointment to soothe the heart
Except the Muses.
6. "Where will this end?"... "Love doesn't care.
Cruel Love for tears, meadows for running streams,
For clover bees will hunger, goats for leaves."
7. Linus will not defeat me in song, nor Thracian Orpheus,
Though one should have his father's aid and one his mother's,
Orpheus Calliope and Linus fair Apollo.
II. Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (27%)
8. Daphnis was the son of a water nymph and in infancy was "exposed" under a
_____ bush (daphne), from which he derived his name.
(a) palm (b) laurel (c) tamarisk (d) juniper
9. The manner of Daphnis's death is left somewhat obscure; it is connected with
a _____.
(a) tree (b) woods (c) river (d) meadow
10. One view termed "_____" primitivism conceives of primitive life as a
golden age of plenty, innocence and happiness--in other words, as civilized
life purged of its vices.
(a) soft (b) hard (c) golden (d) idyllic
11. Virgil transplanted the bucolics of Theocritus to what he decided to call
Arcadia, so that _____, the fountain nymph of Syracuse, must come to his
assistance in Arcady.
(a) Alpheus (b) Arethusa (c) Anapus (d) Acis
12. Hesiod's designation of the five ages reflects a curious blend of fact and
fiction. His assertion of an age of _____ reflects the fact of the Trojan
War, which he cannot ignore.
(a) savages (b) struggle (c) heroes (d) warriors
13. From Virgil onwards, pastoral poetry has been pre-occupied with such
tensions between reality and the world of the imagination, so that the form
is often peculiarly self-conscious of its own aesthetic nature, and
concerned far more with exploring the meaning of its _____ than in
depicting any actual countryside.
(a) characters (b) settings (c) song contests (d) conventions
14. The pastoral world is an extensive as the knightly world. In the medieval
_____ the two worlds meet.
(a) pastourelle (b) romance (c) allegory (d) drama
15. Locus _____ is a technical term to describe an ideal landscape or a love
place.
(a) amoenus (b) Amoebean (c) Epyllion
16. "Speed on those centuries," said the Parcae to their spindles, concordant
with the steadfastnod of Destiny. The term "Parcae" refers to the _____.
(a) Fates (b) Graces (c) nymphs
III. Answer ONE essay question in Each Section. (52%)
Section I:
1. Discuss the procession of mourners in Thrysis's pastoral elegy in "Idyll 1."
2. Discuss the Three Ages of Men on the Goatherd's cup in "Idyll 1."
3. Explicate Polyphemus's fixation on Galatea in the light of his peculiar
identity as the son of Poseidon and Thoosa.
Section II:
1. Explain why Virgil's "Ecologue IV" became the Messianic Eclogue in the
Middle Ages.
2. Discuss the elegiac sentiment in "Eclogue X."
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