1、英国文学期末复习资料整理大三下英国文学期末复习资料张旭一、名词解释5题/10分1.apostrophe: a figure of speech in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an ani mal, object or abstract idea.2.dramatic monologue: a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent liste
2、ner, revealing unwittingly things about himself or herself.3.satire: a kind of writing that expresses the vices and follies of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn.4.ode: a rhymed lyrical poem which expresses noble feelings often addressed to a person, an object or celebrati
3、 ng an eve nt.5.terza rima : a poetic form consisting of a series of units of three lines rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.6.Byronic hero : a rebel or outlaw who is strong-willed, disillusioned, friendless, always at war with the conven ti onal world.7.parody : the imitative use of words, style, atti
4、tude, tone and ideas of an author in such a way as to make them ridiculous.8.epistolary novel : a novel written in the form of a series of letters exchanged amongthe characters of the story, with extracts from their jour nals sometimes in cluded.1、文学史常识:作家作品,相关流派 10题/10分1.William Wordsworth (华兹华斯 17
5、70-1850)【1 】作品特点P6: Close to nature he had a profound love for nature. He thoughtthat nature had a moral value and has its philosophical significanee.【2】相关作品P6:The Recluse: long poem which illustrated his th in ki ng of life, but it rema insunfini shed.The Prelude (1850): long poem which tells the g
6、rowth of his mind.Lyrical Ballads (1798): an importa nt piece of literature criticism in En glish literature.It can be read as a declaration of romanticism.【3】代表作品P17: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud2.George Gordon Byron (拜伦 1788-1824)【1 】作品特点:He is interested in democracy【2】关于作者P41-42:Born of a n oble
7、 blood both on pater nal and mater nal li nes.He was good frie nds with ShellyIn the style of Pope, he satirically attacked Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and the Edin burgh critics.After he attained his M.A. degree, he stayed for some time on his estate and led a dissipated(奢靡的)lifeFrom 1809 to
8、 1811, he made a grand tour of the Continent.【3】相关作品:(1) En glish Bards and Scotch Reviewers : his first importa nt poem(2) Hours of Idle ness : a collect ion of lyrical verse(3)Childe Harold s Pilgrimage : first two cantos( 篇章)(4)Orie ntal Tales : a series of roma ntic n arrative verses(5)Prometheu
9、s, Sonnet on Chillo n, and the Pris oner of Chill on(6)Childe Harold s Pilgrimage : his third and fourth cantos.【4 】代表作品P59: She Walks in Beauty3.Percy Bysshe Shelley (雪莱 1792-1822)【1】关于作者P61-62:He eloped with a young girl, Harriet, at last she was committed suicide.She met Godw in and fell in love
10、with his daughter Mary Godw in. Her mother wasMary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797), a champion for women s rights and theauthoress of A Vin dicatio n of the Rights of Woma n(1792)He was drowned in a tempest while sailing in a boat along the coast of Italy.【3】相关作品:(1)Alastor (1816), The Revolt of lslam(181
11、8). The Mask of Anarchy(1819) : allegorical(讽喻的)poems(2)Prometheus Unbound(1820), Hellas (1822 ), and The Cenci(1819): lyrical dramas.(3)Adonis(1821): a poem he wrote on the death of Keats(4)Ode to the West Wind (1819): the most well-k now n one.(5)The Defenee of Poetry (1821): published in 1840 aft
12、er the poet s death.【4 】 代表作品P67-70 : Ode to the West Wind1、O Wild West Wind, thou breathe of Autumn s beingThou, from whose unseen presenee the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,Pestilence-stricken multitudes:O thouWho chariltes
13、t to their dark wintry bedThe winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,Each like a corpse within its grave, untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall blowHer clarion oer the dreaming earth, and fill(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)With living hues and odors plain and hill:Wild Spiri
14、t, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and presserver; hear, oh, hear!4、If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee:A wave to pant beneath thy power , and shareThe impulse of thy strength, only less freeThan thou, O uncon trollable! If eve nI were as im my boy
15、hood, and could beThe comrade of thy wan derigs over Heave n.As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speedScarce seemd a vision; I would neer have strivenAs 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 bowedOne too lke thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.5、Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What if my leavers are falling like its own!The tmult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spiri
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