1.Symbolic Meaning of “the t i ger” by William Blake
When being asked about the symbolic meaning of “the t i ger”, there are many different views. Some think that this tiger with mysterious religion is the symbol of the people?s strength. Others believe that i t represents people?s power in their soul that they want to break through ignorance, constraint and the superstition belief surrounding. I think that “tiger” represents the strength that they want to overthrow the Old World hated bitterly by him.
From the poem, we can see clearly that Black's tiger image is formidable. The author uses some words ingeniously that show the ti ger?s great power, such as fearful, dread, dare and so on. The tiger?s powerful image lets reader associate the spirit that he want to break through the tradition surrounding, ignorance and the old world.
2 Red rose
As a love poem, it conveys the great forces of the eternal love and gives us a great shock. In the first section , the poet expresses his strong affection to his lover, then in the next two sections, the poet express his blazing love deeply. In the last section the poem reaches a climax. From above, we can learn the lasting love, if they love each other deeply, the true love can resist the erosion of time, it will be an eternal love. Loving a person needs to complete the sacrifice, to give without reservation. There should be no ideas of money, greed, and selfish. A red rose, a red-hot love vows, as well as the heart ,who will not be moved by this eternal love?
3 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was written by William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism. As a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expressed in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. His deep love for nature runs through short lyrics such as “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a poem about nature. With his pure and poetic language, Wordsworth brings us into a beautiful world where there are daffodils, trees and breeze. We follow the poet at every turn of his feelings. We share his melancholy when he “wandered lonely as a cloud” and his delight the moment his heart “with pleasure fills ”. We come to realize the great power of nature that may influence our life deeply as revealed in the poem.
4. The solitary reaper ( the affection of the reaper?s songs)
?Unlike other poets, this lass sings alone, isolated from both her predecessors (her "poetic tradition") and any audience. Dryden, Pope, Gray, and so many others defined themselves by quoting from classical literature and each other. Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper"
shatters this continuity. Her song, like a found poem, springs directly from nature, without literary context. Her "music" runs like water ("overflowing" the valley) and surpasses the beauty of two celebrated English song-birds, the nightingale and the cuckoo. Here again the speaker raids conventional poetic language, as if incapable of finding truly suitable language.
5．She Walks in Beauty( the female beauty)
对照的应用
She walks in Beauty is considered to have been Byron?s tribute to the beauty of art [8]. The poem begins with the image if a woman who walks in beauty like the night, which would lead the reader to ask how she could be found. The answer to that question is answered in the next line when the speaker says that the night is cloudless and that the stars illuminate the sky, bringing into focus the imagery of light and darkness. When the first line of a poem is presented with no punctuation, but is followed by a line that will clarify the previous statement is referred to as enjambment, and this technique is used in the first four lines of the poem. In the next few lines Byron draws attention to the word meet; it emphasizes the contrasts in the woman being described; the imagery presented in the first two lines reappears in these lines, and the contrast of light and dark makes another appearance. The light and dark appear in her face and in her eyes. Her face contains light alabaster skin, yet has dark hair, and her eyes are dark in the iris in contrast with the white of her eye. This repeat of the contrast between light and dark reinforces the imagery introduced in the beginning of the poem. The poem goes on to say that if she were to have even one bit more light or less dark she would not be ruined but she would be only ?°half impaired. As the poem begins to end Byron speaks of the woman?s inner thoughts and how they are all good, which serves to convey the woman as pure , making her all the more beautiful.The reference to her angelic looks gives a window into her morality as a person, and enhances her beauty all the more .There is a contrast of light and dark in the poem can easily be a representation of what art is in its entirety; there are so many varying, contrasting parts of art and yet it all comes together to create something that is beautiful . The contrast of light and dark is used to convey the soft beauty of the woman; the beauty is soft and pronounced but not overdone . The woman?s beauty is soft like candlelight, it is not too over powering and yet her beauty is still obvious to all who look at her . The dark part of the contrast serves as a reality check to make the woman seem more worldly and real, it creates flaws and yet if she were to have even one bit more light or darkness she would only be half-impaired Byron speaks of her nameless grace, in which one would think he were speaking of her grace as she walks but, he is really speaking of the grace she possesses from the darker features of her face, which serve to enhance her beauty in the speakers eyes .
女性美
The Physical Beauty of the Heroine
In the first part, the poet describes a graceful and serene lady successfully with his delicate touch. He compared the lady to the night. So we can guess that the lady dressed black (it is true). In our imagination, the night always gives us a kind of fear. Even in a fine night, the starry sky also make us feel lonely. But in Byron?s portrait, the night became charming and fascinating. It is live and vivid.
In the second part, Byron says that every change of the brightness will impair the nameless grace and the glow of the lady?s face is nearly perfect. Here the poet gives his own idea that even a raven tress and a ray of light over her face will make difference. The focus of the vision is upon the details of the lady?s face and eyes which reflect the mellowed and tender light. From these features, we can image how beautiful the lady is. In the third part, we meet with a mythic smile on her face. The smile is so slight and fleeting. I am deeply attracted by the beautiful lady until here.
How charming the lady is! From her smile and expression, we can see a Venus walking to us.
The Inner Beauty of the heroine
Through the whole poem, Byron portrays much about the lady?s physical beauty and by these words we also can imag e her mental beauty. The lady?s physical beauty is a reflection of her inner beauty. The beautiful lady's face and eyes convey the romantic idea that her inner beauty is mirrored by her outer beauty. Her thoughts are serene and sweet. She is pure and dear. Then, we turn to the first part?s analogy. We can find that the beautiful lady has something same to the sunny night. Both are simple and innocent. The beautiful lady's soft, calm glow reflects a life of peace and goodness.
In the second stanza, the beautiful lady's bewitching smile and brilliant expression on her face all demonstrate that she is a kind-hearted lady. The last stanza is split between three lines of visage description and three lines that describe the lady?s moral characters. "A mind at pe ace with all bellow A heart whose love is innocent" manifests that her thoughts are in harmony with all the creatures on the planet and her heart is filled with pure and innocent love. In this part, the poet make a perfect combination between the fascinating lady's physical beauty and her mental or moral beauty, through which, the poet presents us a perfect lady who is not only endowed with beautiful appearance but also with a moving quality and a pure and kind heart. With the descriptions of the lady's beauty, the lady's beauty becomes complete and more moving. Conclusion
To conclude, it is really a beautiful poem which gives reader a really beautiful image of a woman. After having read this poem for times, I even can image what the woman that Byron was narrating and how beautiful that woman is. I even can image the serene, peaceful, gentle smile on her face. I can even touch the kindness and innocence deep in the beautiful lady's heart. In a word, all I can image and feel is only one thing, that is beauty, which is the subject the poet expected to express. Now, a beautiful lady is walking to us.
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6西风颂的赏析共五节，如考第一与第五节的话，那就根据具体内容分析啦，这里供参考。Ode to the West Wind
Ode to the West Wind is an ode written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. Shelley was one of the 3 representatives of the active romanticist poets，which was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working class. He had intense love for the people and bitter hated for their oppressors & exploiters. He called on the people to overthrow the rule of tyranny and injustice and prophesied a happy and free future for mankind.
The poem of Ode to the West Wind consists of five stanzas of fourteen lines each，which is written in terza rima）. Each stanza has four tercets and a closing couplet. In poetry,a tercet is a unit of 3 lines that uaually contains end rhyme (ABA, BCB, CDC, DED);a couplet is a two-line unit that uauslly contains end rhyme (EE).. Shelley wrote the tercets in a verse form called terza rima. The Ode is written in iambic pentameter.The ke ynote in the poem is Shelley?s ever-present wish for himself and his fellowmen to share the freedom of the west wind .The dominant mood here is that of hope.
The poem begins with three stanzas describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. The last two cantos are Shelley speaking directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him like a leaf, a cloud or a wave and make him its companion in its wanderings. He asks the wind to take
his thoughts and spread them all over the world so that the youth are awoken with his ideas. The poem Ode to the West Wind can be divided in two parts: the first three cantos are about the qualities of the …Wind? and end each with the invocation …Oh hear!?. The last two cantos give a relation between the …Wind? and the speaker.
The first stanza begins with the alliteration…wild West Wind?。 The first section is fairly straightforward with constant references to death, corpses and destruction that Shelly uses as a metaphor for autumn. The allusion to disease and darkness describes the West Wind in this first section. In the last line of this stanza the west wind is considered the …Destroyer?because it drives the last signs of life from the trees, and the …Preserver? for scattering the seeds which will come to life in the spring.
In the second section Shelly takes a more lofty perspective in the beginning mentioning …heaven? and …angels? and then moves to give a depiction of hell in the last line of the section with “black rain, and fire, and hail will burst”. To be a little more precise, the second section is one comparing an oncoming storm to the end of a year. Perhaps Shelly feels that the next year will not be as good as the last and one can even speculate that the west winds are the winds of change or even of evil.
The third section really supports the theory that Shelly did portray the west wind as the bringer of evil.” Palaces and towers” symbolize monarchical government.The wind is described to be awakened from a place of peace and beauty. From what is known of the …wind? from the last two stanzas, it became clear that the …wind? is something that plays the role of a Creator. Whether the wind creates real things or illusions does not seem to be that important. The west wind is power. Whereas the stanzas one to three began with …O wild West Wind? and …Thou...? and were clearly directed to the wind, there is a change in the four th stanza. The focus is no more on the …wind?, but on the speaker who says …If I...?. Until this part, the poem has appeared very anonymous and was only concentrated on the …wind? and its forces so that the author of the poem was more or less forgotten..The fourth section plays on the feeling that this wind is all-powerful and Shelly seems to give the impression of bowing down before it. One more thing that should mention is that this stanza sounds like a kind of prayer or confession of the poet. This confession does not address God and therefore sounds very impersonal.
The final section seems to come to terms with the west wind. the most powerful call to the Wind are the lines: "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe/Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!" Here Shelley is imploring,or really chanting to the Wind to blow away all of his useless thoughts so that he can be a vessel for the Wind and, as a result, awaken the Earth.
The poem expresses the hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read or hear it. In the poem the poet describes vividly the activities of the West Wind on the earth, in the sky and on the sea, and then expresses his envy for the boundless freedom of the West Wind and his wish to be free like the wind and wanted his message of reform and revolution spread, and the wind becomes the trope for spreading the word of change through the poet-prophet figure. The poem allegorises the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. The celebrated final line of the p oem, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” illustrated Shelley?s optimistic belief in the future of mankind.
7 Ode to the Nightingale sense of beauty
Theme : This ode was inspired by the singing of a nightingale that had built its nest close to the
house of a friend of the poet in Hampstead. Here Keats not only expresses his rapture upon hearing the beautiful songs of the nightingale and his desire to go to the ethereal world of beauty together with the bird, but also shows his deep sympathy for and his keen understanding of human miseries in the society in which he lived.
Style: The poem contains eight stanzas each consisting of ten lines of iambic verse and a rhyme scheme of abab cdecde. All the lines in each stanza are in iambic pentameter, with the exception of the eighth line which has only three feet is in iambic trimester.
Conclusion; John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" explores the paradoxes of immortality and death, beauty and truth, and imagination and reality. Its main concept is about temporary changes in life, such as those brought about by art forms that take one away from reality into a world of imagination and fantasy, only to return the individual to the world. The nightingale in the poem serves as a metaphor for immortality; nature is always dying but always alive, forever changing but always the same.
1.Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in the 1830s in England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found in the street and dies just after Oliver?s birth. He is apprenticed to an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. One day another apprentice insults Oliver?s mother and Oliver attacks him. Then he is severely punished and runs away to London. Starved and exhausted, he meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in London and there Oliver meets Fagin and some other boys.It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. Oliver, who does not know that he is among criminals, becomes one of Fagin?s boys.
Oliver is sent on a pick-pocketing mission with two other boys. He is caught but the victim, Mr. Brownlow rescues him from arrest and brings Oliver to his house. There for the first time in his life, Oliver feels happy.
However, with the help of the brutal murderer Bill Sikes and his lover Nancy, Fagin kidnaps Oliver. Fagin is prompted to do this by a mysterious Mr. Monks who is plotting against Oliver. Fagin sends Oliver to assist Sikes in a burglary. Oliver is shot and is taken in by the women who live in the house, Mrs. Maylie and Rose. They grow fond of Oliver, and he spends a happy time with them.
At the end of the story, Mr. Monks? plot against Oliver is disclosed by Mr. Brownlow. Mr. Monks turns out to be Oliver?s half-brother seeking all of the family inheritance for himself. Moreover, Oliver?s dead mother and Rose are sisters. Fagin is hanged for his crimes and Sikes accidentally hangs himself while trying to escape. Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver, and they and the Maylies retire to a happy existence in the countryside.
2 ＪａｎｅＥｙｒｅ
Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel by Charlotte Bront?that was published in 1847 . It is Bront?'s masterpiece and one of the most famous British novels.
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the formative years of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan girl. The plot follows the form of a Bildungsroman, a novel that tells the story of a child's maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that lead to his or her maturity. The novel goes through five distinct stages: (1) Jane's
childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins; (2) her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; (3) her time as governess at Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; (4) her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and at Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St. John Rivers proposes to her; and (5) her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean. Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism and sinister Gothic elements. Jane Eyre is divided into 38 chapters, and most editions are at least 400 pages long.
3 Tom Jones
It starts with Mr. Allworthy?s adoptation of Tom, an orphan, who is brought up together with Blifil, Mr. Allworthy?s nephew—a hypocritical, wicked man, is envious of Mr. Allworthy?s fondness for the foundling. Both of them fall in love with Sophia, daughter of a landlord in the vicinity附近, but, Sophia chooses Tom. In order to be the only heir of Mr. Allworthy, Blifil, who is also gnawed苦恼his love failure, plays dirty tricks and speaks ill of Tom, its result is that Mr. Allworthy, being taken in by Blifil, drives Tom out of his home.
Tom, intending to go to sea, wrongly takes the road to London, and Sophia, in rebellion against her father?s desire that she be married to Blifil, marches out for London too, accompanied by her maid. After many adventures, Tom and Sophia gather in London, where they gain living until Tom is finally discovered to be Mr. Allworthy?s nephew and Blifil?s half-brother.
Tom and Sophia return to the estate of Mr. Allworthy, while Blifil is condemned and gets deserved punishment. In addition to the major story of the novel, some minor threads are arranged to reflect the social life of all the corners in England.
4 Robinson Crusoe
The novel tells the story of a British seaman lived on the deserted island because of the ship sank. It spent him 26 years on the island. In order to survive in that difficult environment, he began to learn how to make a raft, grow food and raise animals. He managed to struggle to the nature. He relies on his hands, and with his own wisdom, not only spent a couple of decades on making the island into a" land of idyllic beauty", but also with the courage he saved a native" Friday". As the result, they lived together. Just as when he was about to give up the hope to return to England, he got off the island by chance. After experiencing great difficulty, Robinson eventually left the island.
One's life experiences many hardships, however, how to solve? Like Robinson on the island's, one of his people with strong perseverance tenacious life, and bad environment, fight fierce beast, and by working hard to open up a new life. Life is lucky not perfect, not won't make mistakes, but God for us is fair, we're going to find, struggle and create.
5Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. He gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput and he becomes a prisoner carried up the country. For the Lilliput, Gulliver is a huge thing but for the Blefuscu he is big like a tower. When he travels again, he is also unlucky that the storm attacks him again. He was brought to a strange land. There people are very tall like towers but he is small like a mouse. They use him to make money and consider him as a toy. Later the king has bought him. He shows off his country that great, wise, able government and fair lows. At the third year, he accompanies the king to visit. Because of his missing his hometown, so he pretends to fall ill，and go to seaside to breath fresh air. The eagle thinks that his house is a turtle and takes it fly. Then many eagle rob it, at last, unlucky the house drops in the sea. The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and after some difficulties, he returns safely to his native country.
A great storm described; the long boat sent to fetch water; the author goes with it to discover the country. He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmer?s house. His reception, with several accidents that happened there.
6 A brief introduction of Hamlet
Young Hamlet, P rince of Denmark, comes home from abroading school to attend his father?s funeral. His uncle, Claudius, takes the kingship, what?s worse, he marries Prince Hamlet?s mother after the previous King?s funeral within one month. Hamlet is invited by his father?s ghost,who tells him it is Claudius does the murder and requires young Hamlet revenge for him.
Hamlet wants to conform the ghost?s words. He arrange a play which closely echoes the ghost has told him of his own murder. Hamlet?s suspicions are confirmed by Claudius?s reaction. After the play, he goes to the queen?s room and insults her. He kills Polonius accidentally, whom he supposes was Claudius. Claudius sends Hamlet to England, planning to have him murdered.
Ophelia, maddened by great grief, drowns herself to death by accident. Her brother Laertes, insist the deaths of his father and sister are caused by Hamlet. Hamlet returns from England and confronts Laertes and Claudius. Claudius plots with Laertes to kill Hamlet in a fencing match which Laertes will have a poisoned sword . The plot mi scarries and Laertes dies. Hamlet?s mother drinks the wine from a poisoned cup which intended for Hamlet and she dies. Hamlet, wounded by the poisoned sword. But before he dies, he stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword, the Claudius dies.
.. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement. 1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. A. The Canterbury Tales B. Paradise Lost C. The Song of Beowulf D. The Fairy Queen 2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______. A. Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D. Anglo-Saxon period 3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____. A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C. Confessio Amantis D. The Canterbury Tales 4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth 5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower 6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______. A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country C. he wrote in blank verse D. he was the first to write sonnet 7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry. A. Chaucer B. John Donne C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse. A. Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？ A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology C. The Glorious revolution D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion 10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event? A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries. A. 14th...mid-17th B. 14th...mid-18th C. 16th...mid-18th D. 16th...mid-17th 12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______. A. science B. philosophy C. arts D. humanism 13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems. A. Edmund Spenser B. John Donne C. William Blake D. Thomas Gray 14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”. A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Edmund Spenser D. John Donne 15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A. Christian B. knightly C. pilgrims D. primitive 16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism. A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe
考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
浙江省2018年1月高等教育自学考试 英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 Part I. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%) Section A A B (1)Jonathan Swift（） A. The Rainbow (2)D.H. Lawrence （） B. Adam Bede (3)Emily Brontё（） C. Gulliver’s Travels (4)Thomas Hardy （） D. Wuthering Heights (5)George Eliot（） E. Far From the Madding Crowd Section B A B (1) Middlemarch（） A. Shylock (2) Jane Eyre（） B. Sir Peter Teazle (3) The Merchant of Venice（） C. Mr. Rochester (4) Mrs. Warren’s Profession（） D. Will Ladislas (5) The School for Scandal（） E. Vivie Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%) 1. In Paradise Lost, the author intended to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of _________ to men.” 2. As the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens set out a full map, and a large -scale criticism of the _________century. 3. In Jane Austen’s novels, stories of _________ and marriage provide the major themes. 4. In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the two men Alec and _________ are both agents of the destructive force of the society. 1
一．中古英语时期 ?Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. ?The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. ?Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. ?Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance ?Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. ?It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. ?Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ?This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England ? ?“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. ?Thomas More ——Utopia ?Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 ? 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? ? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene ? C. Beowulf D. Hamlet ? 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. ? A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare ? C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer ? 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. ? A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer ? C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare ?“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare ?William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
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浙江省2013年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Multiple choices. (30 points, 1.5 points for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. 1. The ________ , which means rebirth or revival, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. A. renaissance B. neoclassicism C. romanticism D. modernism 2. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets of ________. A. realism B. neoclassicism C. romanticism D. modernism 3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is written by ________. A. Alfred Tennyson B. William Butler Y eats C. T. S. Eliot D. Ezra Pound 4. Don Juan, a great comic epic of the early 19th century, is the masterpiece of ________. 1 浙江省2013年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题
Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet. Part I：Multiple Choices （10%） Choose the best answer to the following sentences. 1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？ A. Alliteration B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England C. Germanic language D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people 2.English Renaissance Period was an age of. A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs 3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and. A. the lake poets B. the university wits C. the Metaphysical poets D. the Romantic poets 4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________. A. Thomas Hardy B. James Joyce C. Samuel Richardson D. Henry Fielding 5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England. A. Don Juan B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc. A. Joseph Conrad B. Henry Fielding C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence 7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown. A. Ulysses B. Orlando C. Dubliners D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.
做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答! 浙江省2007年10月高等教育自学考试 英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%) Section A A B (1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress (2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box (3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe (4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities (5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for Scandal Section B A B (1) Jane Eyre( ) A. Irene (2) The Man of Property( ) B. Mr. Rochester (3) The Merchant of Venice( ) C. Satan (4) Paradise Lost( ) D. Sophia Western (5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. Portia Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%) 1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe. 2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced. 3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads. 4. In the V ictorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. 5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern 1
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释） 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment（名词解释） 19. Neoclassicism（名词解释） 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted Village” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),
2018年自学《英国文学选读》试题及答案 1. What are Shakespeare ’s achievements? a. Shakespeare represented the trend of history in giving voice to de desires and aspirations of the people. b. Shakespeare’s humanism: more important than his historical sense of his time, Shakespeare in his plays reflects the spirit of his age. c. Shakespeare’s characterization: Shakespeare was most successful in his characterization. In his plays he described a great number of characters. d. Shakespeare’s originality: Shakespeare drew most of his materials from sources that were known to his audienc e. But his plays are original because he instilled into the old materials a new spirit that gives new life to his plays. e. Shakespeare as a great poet: Shakespeare was not only a great dramatist, but also a great poet. Apart from his sonnets and long poems, his dramas are poetry. f. Shakespeare as master of the English language. 2. What are the basic characteristics of ballads? a. The beginning is often abrupt. b. There are strong dramatic elements. c. The story is often told through dialogue and action. d. The theme is often tragic, though there are a number of comic