英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案之欧阳理创编.docx

1、英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案之欧阳理创编Part One：English Poetry时间：2021.03.05创作：欧阳理1.William ShakespeareSonnet 18Why does the poet compare thee to a summers day? And who could thee be?Because summers day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love.What picture have you got of English summer, and could you

2、 explain why? Warm,beautiful,sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May.How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer.What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summ

3、er and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal.What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile,metaphor,personification,oxymoron and so on.What is the theme of the poem?Love conquers all, Beauty lives on.2.ThomasNashe SpringRead the poem carefully, pay attention to t

4、hose image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images.There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe al

5、l day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!”The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，” impressions me most because of the harmony of the people

6、s relationship.Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem?In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavo

7、r, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and consonants means. In Naixis poem,the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow.Section I of the poetry has Three pairs ing , section II of the poem has three pairs ei and the third quarter has three pairs i :

8、 .3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding MourningWhat is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning?No, it is about the lovers separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wifes love is sacred, he didnt hope they cry when

9、 separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.2. Explain the metaphors in the poem.In the first verse, the poet used virtuous mens death metaphor for lovers separation, in the third verse he used “moving of the earth” and “trepidation of the spheres” metaphor for lovers se

10、paration and the result of separation, in the last three verse he used stiff twin compasses two legs metaphor for poet himself and his wife. All these metaphors show poet opinion that he will separate from his wife in peace, their love is a scared love, when they away from each other, they will not

11、be hurt by the pain of the separation. He and his wife will not really separate. They care about each other and listen to the other ones heart, their trust and loyalty makes their love perfect like the circle made by a twin compasses.4.William Blake The TigerWhat is the symbolic meaning of the tiger

12、?The symbol of the Tiger is unclear what it exactly symbolizes, but scholars have hypothesized that the Tiger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, the sublime, or vision itself. The list is almost infinite. The point is, the Tiger is important, and Blakes poem barely limits

13、the possibilities. Here are two major symbolisms:The tiger is the embodiment of Gods power in creation.The tiger shows the force of French Revolution.What paradox can you find in the poem?Did he who made the Lamb make thee? It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18s century. The view onl

14、y concluded that god create the lame, he is so kind a father. But it didnt know god also create the tough tiger. He can also be very serious. The god is someone who cant be truly understood by human beings.5.Robert Burns A Red, Red RoseHow dose the narrator in the love song express his love?In stanz

15、a 1, the narrator presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody.In stanza 2, the narrator addresses the young lady as bonnie. In the last line of the stanza, he presents hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates.In stanza 3, the man p

16、romises eternal love for her.In stanza 4, the poet vows to love her however far he may go. Why is this poem so touching to the readers?Because this poem professes the poets true love for his beloved girl, and uses the mentioned above to touch the readers.6.William Wordsw orth I Wandered Lonely as a

17、CloudWhat does the poet see?He sees some daffodils.What is the poets mood before he sees the daffodils? Vacant and pensive.What is the poets mood after he sees the daffodils? He is very pleasant.How does the magical change occur? Those daffodils show a fantastic picture to the poet, and the poet has

18、 been deeply affected by the scene, and his mood changes.What is the theme of the poem? Or what does the poet want to tell you?It shows the beauty of nature, and the natures beauty uplifts the human spirit, and the harmony between human and nature.7.Robert Browning My Last Duchess1. In this poem, wh

19、o and on what occasion is speaking to whom? The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Dukes marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family.What sort of person is the Dukes last Duchess?She is kin

20、d, easy-going, innocent and lively. And what became of her in the end?She became very upset and worrying. The duchess died under suspicious circumstances on April 21, 1561, just two years after he married her. She may have been poisoned.2. What sort of person is the Duke?He is outrageously arrogant,

21、 narrow-minded, selfish, hypocritical, cold-blooded, crucial, greedy and treacherous.8.Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!Q:Walt Whitmans poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is written in the form of an allegory. What is the overall connotativemeaning in the poem?A:Ships implied meaning is America;My capt

22、ain implied meaning is Abraham Lincoln who leaded America to triumph in American Civil War then; our fearful trips implied meaning is American Civil War after which Lincoln was assassinated. In this poem author spoken highlyofLincoln contribution and expressed his sorrow for Lincoln death.9.Emily Di

23、ckinson(1)Success is counted sweetest (67)According to the poem, who can understand success most? Do you agree or not with the poets view that “Success is counted sweetest by those who neer succeed”?The person who best understands the meaning of success is the person who failsWhat sort of feelings d

24、oes the poet show toward the victor and the defeated?The poet shows her awareness of the complicated truths of human desire. Success can be comprehended by someone who need it; the defeated, dying man understand victory more clearly than the victorious army does.(2)Because I could not stop for Death

25、 (712)How many people are there in the carriage? And where are they going right now?There are three in the carriage, the Poet, Death, and Immortality.Where did they pass? What can these places remind us of?They passed the school, the fields of Gazing grain, the Setting Sun.It reminds us of childhood

26、, maturity and old age,the children are evident symbols of the beginning of things, the grain rip of the adulthood, and the sun setting of the rest of the days.What is the poets attitude toward death and life implied in the poem?The poets attitude is that death is nothing to be forced since it is na

27、tural part of the endless cycle of nature, its only the beginning ;to die is to go on another journey, although death takes one away from the earthy world ;there is still something to look forward to when one dies, death means eternity.10.Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhy did the

28、speaker stop?Literally he was fascinated by the beautiful night scene and stoped his horse to watch the woods fill up with the snow,it was also a little break for the long travel. But in fact,its symbolism,the woods stands for the nature,the village stands for the human world, horse for the animal w

29、orld. The poem represents a moment of relaxation from the burdensome journey of life, an almost aesthetic enjoyment and appreciation of natural beauty which is wholesome and restorative against the chaotic existence of modern man. Why did he later decide to go?As the last sentence said But I have pr

30、omises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep.His horse shake the bell to ask if they should go,which is actually a symbol of vitality, urges him to go. He lives in the real life, and he has his own obligation promise to keep,he hasnt achieve it, so he must go on his trip,leave the beautiful scene.T

31、hough the scene is so amazing,he has to have the real life. Though the real life is so hard,he must back to it,and reach his goal. One leaves no regrets after he dies, as long as one has reached his goal.What is your understanding of “promises to keep”?“The promise” could be an obligation or a goal.

32、 One cannot die before fulfilling ones dream. The poet uses “sleep” to represent death, just as we usually do. People have their own dream or goal,its also the duty for us to finish, we live for ourselves and we make life wonderful by keeping on reaching our goal,no regrets leaves as long as we have reached our goals.11. Ezra PoundIn a Station of the MetroPart Two: English Fiction12. Jonathan Swift Gullivers Trave