課程名稱︰浪漫時期英國文學 課程性質︰外文系群組必修／Ｂ英美文學九選五 課程教師︰吳雅鳳 開課學院：文學院 開課系所︰外國語文學系 考試日期（年月日）︰2015.11.11 考試時限（分鐘）：150分鐘（9:30-12:00） 試題 : [試題中的斜體字以虛底線標示；考卷標題和日期就是這樣寫的XD] ﹉﹉﹉ Mid-term Exam: 19th-Century British Literature Instructor: Dr. Ya-feng Wu, DFLL, NTU, (Nov. 10, 2015) I. Please briefly explain three of the following terms with concrete examples ￣￣￣￣ ￣￣￣ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ if possible (15%) 1. The master theme of Romanticism 2. Fragment poem 3. Infernal printing 4. the Aeolian harp 5. the Bard II. Choose two of the following excerpts and explain their significance in ￣￣ Romanticism. (30%) 1. "Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn no longer, in deadly black, with hoarse note curse the sons of joy! Nor his accepted brethren—whom, tyrant, he calls free—lay the bound or build the roof! Nor pale Religion's lechery call that Virginity that wishes but act not!" ("The song of liberty" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ) ﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉ 2. "In moody sadness, on the giddy brink, I see him more with envy than with fear; He has no nice felicities that shrink ﹉ ﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉ From giant horrors; wildly wandering here, He seems (uncursed with reason) not to know The depth or the duration of his woe." ("On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic") 3. "For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." ("I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud") III. Choose one out of each set of questions and answer with concrete examples. (55%) ￣￣ ￣￣ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ 1A. Explain the "myth of nature" and its connection with Romantic poetics as governing ideas in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey." 1B. Formulate Coleridge's idea of the Romantic poet from his "Kubla Khan," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," etc. 1C. Explain how it is possible that Heman's Casabianca can be read as celebration of patriotism in her own time and as critique of the same ideology in the 20th and 21th centuries. 2A. Explain how we can see Mary Wollstonecraft's refutation with Milton a showcase of her Enlightenment project for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. ﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉ ﹉﹉﹉﹉ 2B. Explain Blake's "The Book of Thel" as a failed quest. 2C. Compare Burns' "To a Mouse" with Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition." --

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