課程名稱︰英詩選讀下
課程性質︰選修
課程教師︰高天恩
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2008.4.25
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
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試題 :
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: 55%
1. Life the _______
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
2. I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary ________.
It _______, and I let it fall and break.
These lines are quoted from _______ by _______. The phrase "a pane of glass"
in the second line refers to _______.
3. Round the cape of a sudden came the ______.
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of _______ for me.
The title of this short poem is ________. It is a sequel to ______. Both poems
were written by ________.
4. The gray sea and the long ________ land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little _____ that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing _______,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
5. --Even losing ______ (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
The _______ of losing's not too hard to master
Though it may look like (Write it!) like _______.
6. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
_______ eyes could blaze like meteors and be ________,
Rage, rage against the dying of the ________.
7. Where had I heard this ________ before
Change like this to a deeper ______?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive ______,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
These lines are from _____ by _______.
8. Like _______ with their ribbons
Frayed and wavering,
A five-haired beard of wisdom
Trailing from his aching ________.
I stared and stared
And ______ filled up the little rented boat,
...
9. ... Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all _______ stopped together. There she stands
As if ______. Will't please you rise? We'll meet
The company below, then....
These lines are quoted from _______. The word "you" in the fifth line refers
to ______.
10. The woods around it have it-- _______ is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too _______ to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
This stanza is quoted from _______ by Robert Frost.
11. Black _______ with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening their scythes. I see them place the _______
In their hip-pockets as a thing that's done,
And start their silent _______, one by one.
12. Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest _______ to hold.
Her early leaf's a _______;
But only so an hour.
These lines are quoted from a poem titled ________.
13. My black face fades,
Hiding inside the black ________.
I said I wouldn't,
Dammit: No ________.
14. My grandfather cut more _______ in a day
Than any other man on Toner's _______.
15. And has this _______ a like perfection?
The mind is like a _______. Precisely. Save
That in the very happiest intellection
A graceful error may correct the ______.
16. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the _______ between us once again.
We keep the ______ between us as we go.
To each the _______ that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our _______ are turned!"
II. Essay Questions: Briefly discuss any FOUR of the following topics: 50%
1. Discuss the theme, imagery, and tone of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish."
2. Discuss Seamus Heaney's "Digging" and "The Forge" in terms of theme and
imagery.
3. Compare and contrast Robert Frost's "Design" with Ralph Waldo Emerson's
"The Rhodora" in terms of theme and imagery.
4. How does Robert Frost convey so vividly the experience of "apple-picking?"
Cite examples of effective images used in "After Apple-Picking," and
discuss the emotional responses these images evoke.
5. Discuss the theme and imagery of Richard Wilbur's "The Writer."
6. Discuss any poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered by
the above questions) in any way you see fit.
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