課程名稱︰英國文學1900以後
課程性質︰必選
課程教師︰朱偉誠
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰97.6.16
考試時限（分鐘）：150分鐘
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試題 :
1. Explain Gerard Manley Hopkins's idea of "inscape" and "instress" as manifest
in his poem "As Kingfishers Catch Fire." (5%)
2. How does Oscar Wilde's Preface to his novel _The Picture of Dorian Gray_
bespeak the tenets of aestheticism, especially as reaction against the
Victorian Age? (5%)
3. Explain the following passage from Wilde's play "The Importance of Being
Earnest" in terms of late Victorian context and relate it to Thomas Hardy's
and A.E.Housman's poems. (10%)
ALGERNON. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
LANE. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
4. Choose one of Wilde's famous aphorisms which you regard as most typically
Wildean and explain its meaning. (5%)
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5. What exactly does the title of W.B.Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" mean and how
does it relate to the central concern of the poem? (5%)
6. Explain Yeats's attitudes toward Irish nationalist politics as expressed in
his poems "September 1913" and "Easter 1916." (10%)
7. Describe Yeats's view on and attitude toward (contemporary) history as seen
in "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," and "Lapis Lazuli." (15%)
8. What exactly does Yeats pray for his daughter in his "A Prayer for My
Daughter" and what do the school children make Yeats think of in "Among
School Children"? (15%)
9. What urges prompt Yeats to write "Sailing to Byzantium" and what is the
significance of the poem "Under Ben Bulben" in terms of Yeats's life and
work? (10%)
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10.How does Virginia Woolf miagine Shakespeare's sister and what are the
points of her doing so? (10%)
11.Summarize the story of T.S.Eliot's "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"
and those of two characters in "The Waste Land" that can exemplify the
general spiritual condition after World War I. (15%)
12.Use T.S.Eliot's poems to illustrate the distinctive characteristics of
modernist poetry. (10%)
13.Summarize the themes of only one group of the following W.H.Auden's poems:
(1)"Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Spain 1937"; or (2)"Lullaby" and "In Praise
of Limestone." (10%)
14.Explain the following passages from Dylan Thomas's poems. (10%)
Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a nail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around. (Poem in October)
And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise. ("Fern Hill")
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