课程名称︰英诗选读 课程性质︰选修(文学与文化专题) 课程教师︰高天恩 开课学院：文学院 开课系所︰外文系 考试日期（年月日）︰2012/04/20 考试时限（分钟）：120分钟 是否需发放奖励金：是 （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : 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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