17世纪文学复习题
1.Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.
a.Church of England
b. Puritanism
c. Calvinism
d. Catholicism
2. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.
a.James I
b. James II
c. Charles I
d. Charles II
3. The Revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things:_______, _______,________.
a. the supremacy of Parliament
b. the beginning of modern England
c. the triumph of the principle of political liberty
d. the Restoration of monarchy
4.The following belong to the characteristics of “metaphysical poetry” represented by John Donne except ___.
A. Conceits
B. Actual imagery and simple diction
C. Argumentative form
D. Elegant style
5. Donne’s poetry is full of metaphors, ori ginal images, wit and______, except ingenuity, dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes and caustic humor.
a. conceits
b. Petrarchen images
c. rhetorics
d. Brevity
6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John Dryden
7. The theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.
a. death is predestined
b. death is the most dreadful thing
c. death you are nothing to be feared
d. death is gentle towards me
8. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, _______was the greatest.
a. Milton
b. Bunyan
c. the Metaphysical poets
d. the Cavalier poets
9. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.
A. Greek Mythology
B. Roman legend
C. The Old Testament
D. The New Testament
10. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority.
A. John Donne
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Milton
D. Edmund Spenser
11.In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the ______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.
a. pessimism, knowledge
b. optimism, ideal
c. rebellion, will
d. cynicism, concept
12. The following description fit into Milton except_____.
A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century
B. an outstanding political pamphleteer
C. a great stylist and master of blank verse
D. a kind of elegant and refine style.
13. _____is not written by John Milton.
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise regained
D. Tamburlaine
14. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our gr and Foe” What does the “Eternal war” mean?
A. To remove God from his throne
B. To burn the Heaven Down
C. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman-----Adam and Eve
D. To beguile into a snake to threaten man’s life
15. Paradise Lost is a (n)________.
a. lyrical poem
b. hymn
c. epic
d. narrative poem
16. ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. Genesis A
B. The Holy War
C. The Pilgrim’s progress
D. Exodus
17. Milton wrote a number of pamphlets defending the English People. Choose them from the following.
a. Defense of the English People
b. Second Defense of the English People
c. L’Allegro
d. II Penseroso
18._________ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic
revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England
D. Areopagitica
19.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.
A. John Donne
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Dryden
D. Edmund Spenser
20.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
A.Paradise Lost
B. The Pilgrim’s progress
B.C. All for Love D.The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
Passage I
“… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?……
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”
1) Please identify the poem and the poet.
2) Interpret“all is not lost”.
3) What does the whole passage mean?
Passage II
Death, be not proud, thou some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so:
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better by thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death; thou shall die.
Questions:
1. This poem is a _________.
2. Is the rhyme scheme the same with a Shakespearean sonnet?
3. Who is poet of the poem? What is his attitude towards death in this poem?
Passage III
Almost five thousand years ago, .there were pilgrims walking to the celestial City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving, by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferment, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, peals, precious stones, and what not.
Questions:
1. This passage is taken from the famous book _______ written by _________.
2. The setting here described is about the best-known episode ________ in the book.
3. How do you understand the passage?
Questions
1.Please comment on the character of Satan in Paradise Lost.
2. Analyze the main idea and artistic features of Paradise Lost.
浪漫主义时期复习题Multiple Choice
1. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.
A.1660-----1798
B.1798----1832
C.1483-----1546
D.1836-----1901
2. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism
B. Renaissance
C. Enlightenment
D. feudalism
3. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.
A. positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. Indifferent
4. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.
A. “Tintern Abbey”
B. Lyrical Ballads
C. Frost a t Night
D. “The Daffodils”
5. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.
A. Washington Irving
B. Jane Austen
C. Herman Melville
D. Charles Dickens
6. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Keats
7. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love
B. man
C. nature
D. Death
8. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.
A. prose
B. poetry
C. fiction
D. Play
9. _____is regarded as a "worship of nature".
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Jane Austen
10. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
B. “Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution”
D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
11. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. The Prelude
B. Endymion
C. Don Juan
D. Biographia Literaria
12. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
C. “The Solitary Reaper”
D. “The Chimney Sweeper”
13. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.
A. love
B. human life
C. freedom
D. social activities
14. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy
B. A Defence of Poetry
C. The Necessity of Atheism
D. The Triumph of Life
15. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first
B. the second
C. the third
D. the forth
16. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in_____.
A. Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B. Ode to the West Wind by Shelly
C. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D. Ulysses by James Joyce
17. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.
A. Wordsworth
B. Austen
C. Byron
D. Keats
18. Keats’ first poem is ____.
A. O Solitude
B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
C. Poems
D. Endymion
19. Keats’ best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn”
B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche”
D. “To a Nightingale”
20. Jane Au sten’s first novel is __________.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma
D. Plan of a Novel
21. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of the Age
B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
D. On the English Poets
22. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.
A. models of classicism
B. familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticism
D. ways of modernism
23. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats
B. Walter Scott
C. Charles Lamb
D. William Hazlitt
24. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen
B. Charles Lamb
C. William Hazlitt
D. Waler Scott
25. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?
A. Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound
B. Keats’ Lamia
C. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
D. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Passage I
"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 dance with the daffodils."
(1) What is the "bliss of the solitude"?
(2) Interpret the passage.
(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?
Passage II
"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud."
(1)Explain "I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed" .
(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?
(3)The poet was called the "the heart of all hearts", he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.
Passage III
"Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"
(1)What does the "wild spirit "refer to?
(2)Why called it "Destroyer and Preserver" at the same time?
(3)Identify the poet and the poem.
Passage IV
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow.
(1)Identify the poet and the poem.
(2) What 's the main idea of this stanza?What the poem wants to convey in this stanza?
(3) Comment on the artistic features of the poet’s works.
美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight
第17单元20世纪美国诗人（1） I.Fill in the blanks. 1.Author_____Title_____（南京大学2007研） The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet,black bough. 【答案】Author:Ezra Pound；Title:“In a Station of the Metro” 【解析】题目节选自庞德的《在一个地铁车站》，该诗是以一个意象作为叙述语言的典型范例。 2.Ezra Pound’s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of_____,which contains_____poems.（国际关系学院2007研） 【答案】The Cantos;117 【解析】庞德把毕生精力都投入到写作《诗章》当中，《诗章》共包括117首诗。 3.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“_____”movement. 【答案】imagism 【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。 4._____was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with
one another:he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（人大2006研） 【答案】Wallace Stevens 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)是美国20世纪的著名诗人。他集企业家和诗人于一身。 5.Winner of the National Book Award in1950and the Pulitzer Prize in1963,______ is the author of the five-volume epic Paterson which is a lucid statement of the author’s aesthetics. 【答案】William Carlos Williams 【解析】威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯的代表作是《佩特森》，它清晰地表达了诗人的美学观点。 6.At the age of44,Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems,entitled_____. 【答案】Harmonium 【解析】1923年，44岁的华莱士-史蒂文斯出版了他的第一部诗集《风琴》（Harmonium）。 7.After his death,Wallace Stevens’s previously uncollected works appeared under the title_____. 【答案】Opus Posthumous 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯死后，其之前未收集的诗作集合成册于1957年发表，名为《遗作》(Opus Posthumous)。
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the Market Street wharf. 4.What features do you find in the style of the above selection? It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision(言简意赅). The narrative is lucid(易懂的), the structure is simple, the imagery is homely(朴素的). 二、Questions 1.How many characters does Poe include in The Cask of Amontillado? What are these names? Montresor, Fortunato and Luchesi 2. What drink are the French most famous for? Wine 3.Does Montresor have something of great value to him which we might consider to be his treasure? His pride and the pride of his French family heritage. Perhaps his devious plot of revenge. 4.Does Montresor seem to have much respect for Italians? Montresor does not have much respect for Italians. He feels the French are superior, especially with respect to wine. 5.What was Fortunato's insult? Poe does not tell us directly, but only implies it in the third paragraph 6.Which wine does Montresor use to lure Fortunato into the catacombs? "Amontillado" (the Spanish wine; Montresor's ruse to lead Fortunato down into the catacombs. 7.Why does Montresor entertain Fortunato with wines from his collection? Montresor wants to get Fortunato drunk enough to be able to trap him in his plan of vengeance. 8.In what two ways does Montresor imprison Fortunato? He fetters (chains and locks) Fortunato to the wall of the catacombs. He builds a wall to close Fortunato off in a small corner of the catacombs, where Montresor will leave him to die. 9.In what ways is The Cask of Amontillado grotesque? First, which of Montresor's actions are abnormal? The whole obsessive plot of vengeance. The fettering and entombment of Fortunato. Montresor's sick sense of humor. 10.Is there anything grotesque about Fortunato? His obsession with alcohol. His drunkenness. His tendency to berate Luchesi (he may have been drunk and may have insulted Montresor in a similar
1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765） American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical） 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war） American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature
第1单元本杰明?富兰克林 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Key:Because that when he was young,he has“never had a pleasure in obtaining any anecdotes”of his ancestors,and he held that it was a great pity because he was curious about them.So,he thought that his son would also want to know the story of him and he himself also had responsibility to share it with his son.In addition,he thought that his experiences and success would give some useful advice to his son.With such consideration in mind,Franklin wrote his autobiography. 2.what made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? Key:The altercation between Franklin and his brother made him decide to leave. His brother considered himself as Franklin’s master and treated him harshly and tyrannically.This kind of treatment annoyed Franklin,so he decided to leave. 3.How did he arrive in Philadelphia? Key:He arrived in Philadelphia with great difficulties.At the very start,he set out in a boat for Amboy,and in crossing the bay he,along with his companions,met with a squall that tore the rotten sails to pieces and drove him upon Long Island. On approaching the island,they had to drop anchor and swim out their cable
2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.
美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 2.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. A. Calvinists B. Puritans C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists 4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____. A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
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第21单元拉尔夫?华尔多?埃利森 21.1 复习笔记 I. Introduction to author（作者简介） 1. Life（生平） Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914—1994) was born in Oklahoma City. From his birth, Ellison’s parents knew he was bound for prosperity. His father even named him for the great writer Ralph Waldo Emerson in an effort to ensure such success. Mrs. Ellison, a maid, would bring home books, magazines, and record albums that had been discarded in the homes she cleaned. Ellison revered and admired the musicians of his area. At Douglas High School, Ellison followed his inclination toward music. From there, he went to Tuskegee Institute on a scholarship and dreamed of writing a symphony. After there was a mix-up with his scholarship, Ellison chose to go north in order to save money for tuition. Arriving in New York, Ellison found it difficult to find work and even harder to find work as a musician. The result was a succession of odd jobs at Harlem’s YMCA with a psychiatrist. There Ellison acted as a file clerk and a receptionist, and held various other jobs around town. During this time, Ellison met the writer Richard Wright, who encouraged him to be a writer rather than a musician. From this point on,
美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一 ) '×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history. C1. D.Georgia C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the
One “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4. B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau D. Emily Dickinson C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. D. Titanic C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. Moby Dick D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and Sea D. C. The Great Gatsby 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 页1 第 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards
美国文学复习题(有答案版)
美国文学复习提纲 第一部分连线题（1*10=10’） 1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain 3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog 4. Robert Frost Mending Wall 5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 6. Carl Sandburg Chicago 7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March 8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women 9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath 10. Jack London The Call of the Wild 11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit 12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 13. O. Henry The Last Leaf 14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury 第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’) 1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America. A. Tenth Muse B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic? A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason 4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ________. A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings 6. ________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. A. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun
1、Do you think Gatsby deserves to be called “the great”? Why? -------from F、Scoot、Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Gatsby pursuit “a universe of ineffable gorgeous” in his young age、In fact, Gatsby from West Egg insists his Platonic fantasy、He fell in love with the blonde and his ineffable gorgeous ideal is bined with Daisy’s breathing and desire、Daisy bees the image of ideal in his mind; though she marries Tom and may does not love him, though he can realize her soul full of money and desire, he cannot change his mind which back his love and be together as before、Maybe that is the shining and great part of his soul、Maybe that is the American dream which can show to us、But through the novel, we can have the clear idea that Daisy’s desire was not his drea m, it is not Daisy’s fault but his dream has giant vitality and energy、His dream is far behind Daisy and everything exists、He does his best to build the perfect world and aim in his mind、So his spirit which pursuits on ideal and dedication is also far behind secular frolicking in the bed、For realizing his dream, he donated himself to mud of money in New York; he showed no interests in wealth itself and the life of debauchery、Just like the lotus lives in the pound around with mud but not be polluted、His soul no doubt is suffering in the social life but without any plain、3、What do “petals” and “bough” stands for? -----from Ezra Pound In A Station of the Metro、 First of all, this poem stands the points of economy by Imagism、Every word in this poem has its own unique meaning、For example, the color of black in this poem may represent the train’s color, the railway’s color, the pillar’s color or the dim light of the metro station、Ezra Pound was very sensitive to the color and usually used their different meanings in his poetry、He used the skill of painting in his process of creating the poem、In this poem, every word is used as the pigment、Petals stand for the meaning of color from their unique image、The word “wet” brings the feeling of fresh and bright to the people、And the word “apparition” gives the dim color of pale and weak to the “faces” and “petals”、And the author put the petals and faces together let the faces have the feeling of tender and red、Several pretty faces appear in the metro station from the dimly lit, and they bee the shining petals in the black bough which was wet by the rain、This transformation is based on our vision, but it also shows that the same point between the quiet nature scenery and the noisy industrial environment、Ezra Pound wants tell us that we can find the beauty everywhere in our daily life、And it also shows the metaphor of Imagism、 1、Do you think Gatsby deserves to be called “the great”? Why? (1)I think it is too plicated to simply say Gatsby deserves to be “great” or not、For one thing, Gatsby was ambitious, hardworking, generous and passionate、He was so extremely loyal to his love and Daisy that he could do anything to get Daisy back: he did shady business to earn money and social position; he threw luxurious parties just to draw Daisy’s attention; he could take the blame for a death that he did not cause、(2)In this respect, he is much “greater” than his contemporaries、For another thing, Gatsby never realized that Daisy wasn’t the girl he loved anymore、Gatsby was so innocent that he staked everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him、He wasn’t sober enough to be great、